Visitor Services Assistant

**Applications**

**Role**: Visitor Services Assistant - Food & Beverage

**Region/Department**: South & West

**Reports to**: Visitor Services Manager/Visitor Services Supervisor

**Pay Band/Starting Salary**: Grade 2 Lower, £10.90 per hour, £22,672 pro-rata, per annum

**Location**: Culzean Castle & Country Park

**Type of Contract**: Fixed Term from 20th March to 31st October 2023. 12 hours per week, 9 posts available

**JOB PURPOSE**

To maximise our visitors’ enjoyment of National Trust for Scotland managed sites by maintaining excellent standards of service, optimising opportunities to generate income and ensuring that the site and its assets are safe and secure.

Specifically, to ensure the smooth and safe operations in Food & Beverage activities making the property the best possible place to visit and work.

Core hours will be the minimum hours available, with the opportunity to work additional hours to suit the needs of the business. Must have full weekend availability, hours will be issued on a rota basis.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES**

**To provide a consistently high standard of visitor care at all times**
- Welcoming visitors to the site and processing their admission/retail or catering purchase in a friendly, efficient and knowledgeable manner;
- Providing information about the site, its history, contents, offers and merchandise;
- Promoting National Trust for Scotland brand to include our Membership scheme, events, upselling other properties and any promotional campaigns, being proactive in the selling of Membership and Gift Aid.

**To maintain excellent standards of site and personal presentation at all times**
- The general ongoing operational cleaning of all areas as necessary, toilet cleaning, emptying waste bins and as appropriate vacuum cleaning, mopping, sweeping, dusting and polishing when required;
- Ensuring site is ready to open and welcome visitors by the set opening time;
- Wearing correct uniform, name badges, or PPE as required.
- Reporting all instances of damage and wear and tear issues promptly to your line manager;
- Working in harmony with other departments; housekeeping, gardening, grounds maintenance and site repair employees/contractors.

**Financial Responsibilities (where applicable)**
- To adhere to all financial procedures to include till operation and banking and safeguarding of monies: to implement amendments to standard procedure as instructions may dictate.

**Food & Beverage duties (where applicable)**
- To ensure good housekeeping of catering kitchens, serveries and back of house areas.
- To ensure that retail merchandising is in accordance with NTS policy.
- To assist in achieving site targets and KPI’s.
- To actively upsell products and services to facilitate the visitor’s enjoyment.
- To actively feedback visitor comments to line managers to develop and improve offer, service, operations.
- To work flexibly across departments and sites as needed.
- To assist with the set-up, stewarding and break-down of events in liaison with the hospitality coordinator.
- To assist with Hospitality events. Staff may be asked to work through into the night hours.

**Health and Safety**
- To ensure site meets with Health and Safety legislation in liaison with your department manager.
- To ensure that visitors vacate the site at close of business and that the site is secured at end of day.
- To use personal protection equipment as provided and directed by your line manager

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE**

**Qualifications**
- No formal educational qualification required.

**Skills, Experience & Knowledge**

Essential
- Demonstrable experience in a catering based role, delivering impeccable customer care and food safety standards.
- Experience in EPOS style till operation.
- Excellent cash handling skills.
- Excellent “front of house” persona - warm, welcoming, patient, understanding.
- Demonstrable excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise.
- Flexible, helpful outlook to customers and colleagues.
- An understanding and commitment to the aims and objectives of the National Trust for Scotland.
- Living the values of the National Trust for Scotland and encourage colleagues to do the same
- The ability and willingness to understand others’ perspectives and to consider the impact of your actions on them and to adapt your actions as necessary.
- The ability and willingness to learn and try new things, to be flexible and step outside of your comfort zone.
- An open and honest way of communicating, ready to ask others for their ideas and to be open to hear and consider different points of view.
- A pro-active approach to taking initiative and to driving forward ideas and projects designed to improve daily operations and deliver an exceptional visitor experience.

Desirable
- Experience in storytelling and a passion for Scottish heritage and history

**The Key Responsibilities, Scope of Job, and Required