Front Office Porter

Overview

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A fantastic opportunity for a Front Office Porter to join our team at Kimpton Charlotte Square
!

You will earn £12.60 per hour – equal to £26,208.00 salary and UK driving license is essential for this role
.

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Supportive, welcoming environment in our Edinburgh property with dining, spa and garden facilities.

What’s in it for you as our Front Office Porter:

• Becoming part of the IHG Hotels & Resorts family, one of the world’s leading hotel companies –
  which means global opportunities
  .
• Complimentary stay for you+1 in our Hotel upon successful completion of probation
  , generous discounts across our F&B outlets at Kimpton Charlotte Square and Inter Continental Edinburgh The George, plus Spa & Gym discounts at our Kimpton property.
• Extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year with a cause of your choice
• Wagestream - a financial wellbeing app giving you the opportunity to save, track and withdraw your pay as you earn it.
• Meals whilst on duty
• 28 days holiday each year, including bank holidays, this increases up to a maximum of 33 days (Pro Rated)
• Enhanced Family Leave (you can ask more details at the interview).
• Mental Health First Aiders on Duty and access to Employee Assistance Programs.
• Taxi subsidy for shifts starting/ending between 23:00-06:00.
• We provide every employee company sick pay and life insurance
• Amazing discounts for our hotels and restaurants around the world
• Discounts from over 15,000 stores – all the way from retail to cinema
• Don’t forget, bring your friends and take part in our generous ‘Refer a Friend’ programme!

As a Front Office Porter, your main duties and responsibilities will be providing guests with assistance in entering our Hotel, greeting them as they come and welcoming them with a friendly approach. You will support Concierge in moving luggage to rooms, communicating with the wider Front Office team in order to coordinate your approach.

To succeed as a Front Office Porter, you will need:

• Experience working as a Luggage Porter, Door Person, Receptionist, Concierge or Guest Services Agent at a 4/5
  * Hotel is beneficial
• An organised approach, ability to handle large amounts of information at once and deal with various requests simultaneously
• Drive to produce results, we work together within the Kimpton family to continue to provide our guests with extremely personal experiences and human connection.
• A warm and authentic personality, with a can-do attitude and commitment to service.
• Overall, you will be willing to work within our team to embrace our service and delight our guests!

At IHG, we believe there’s Room for You:
Room to Grow (providing career development and learning opportunities),
Room to Belong (fostering an inclusive environment where diverse employees can be their authentic selves), and Room to Make a Difference (empowering employees to have an impact on the guest experience and the business).

At Kimpton, our shared mission is to make lives better through heartfelt human connections. This emotional investment drives all that we do, and it’s why you’ll love the work, too. Our colleagues are empowered and encouraged to act from the heart, to go above and beyond to create ridiculously personal experiences for each other and our guests!

Our passion is YOU…come as you are!

Here, you will have space to:

• Be yourself – bringing the real you to work, with your unique personality we want you to be who you are!
• Lead yourself – we trust you to make decisions and exert your creativity in order to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections, we trust you to do right!
• Make it count – you matter, and we will provide you with all the tools you need in order to create ridiculously personalised experiences for our guests every day!

If you are someone who likes to march to the beat of their own drum and wants to join a company which encourages authentic individuality
, apply today to join us as a Front Office Porter
!

You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK
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At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly…