Visitor Services Assistant – Food & Beverage

Organisation:
The National Trust for Scotland

Location:

The Hill House, Upper Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh, G84 9AJ

Purpose of the role

The National Trust for Scotland opened stage one of a ten-year conservation program in summer 2019. The Hill House is now protected by a steel frame structure which incorporates walkways over the house and a new visitor center and café which delivers a unique heritage visitor experience.

We are looking for talented and customer focused individuals to join our team and to help us make The Hill House a 5
* Visitor Attraction

We are looking for people who have experience or a keen interest in Food & Beverage.

Candidates must be available to work over 7 days.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

To provide a consistently high standard of visitor care when –

• Welcoming visitors to the café and working in an efficient and knowledgeable manner

• Welcoming visitors with special needs / impairments and providing a high level of service in accordance with the Equality Act.

• Answering visitor queries about the catering offer

• Promoting the National Trust for Scotland and the benefits of membership.

To maintain excellent standards of site and personal presentation –

• Ensuring the café is fully stocked and set up daily

• Wearing correct uniform, name badges, or PPE as required

• Working in harmony with other departments within the property

• To adhere to all financial procedures to include till operations and cash reconciliation duties

• Help achieve sales targets and membership recruitment targets

• Upsell products within the café

• Actively feedback visitor comments to line managers to improve offer, service and operation

Health and safety –

• To ensure the site meets with the Health and Safety legislation in liaison with your department manager

• To ensure that visitors vacate the site at close of business and site is secured at end of the day

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE

• Ability to work within a team, with minimal supervision, to a high and safe standard

• Ability to be flexible and adapt to various working patterns

• Ability to adjust pace to match customer flow without compromising quality of service

• Excellent front of house persona – warm, welcoming, patient and understanding

• Excellent selling skills

• Genuine belief in the value of good customer service

• Ability to be proactive and to take the initiative

• Excellent personal presentation

• Demonstrable experience in sales, EPOS systems and cash handling/reconciliation

• Experience in a customer-facing role

• Catering experience