Welcome & Service Assistant
7 months ago
As the public face of our properties, you’ll provide a warm, friendly welcome, give information about the property, answer questions and make sure everyone has an enjoyable and memorable visit.
**Salary**:£10.78 per hour
**Contract duration**:Permanent
**Hours**:37.5 hours per week
**What it's like to work here:This vacancy is included in a trial of the ‘Disability Confident’ scheme (level 1).**
Reporting to the Visitor Welcome Manager, you'll join the visitor welcome team. We are at our busiest when the public is as its leisure, so please expect to work every / other weekend and some national holidays.
Ickworth House, with its classical Rotunda and East and West Wings, forms the centrepiece of the Ickworth estate. With over 1800 acres of parkland, gardens and brand new all-weather path to enjoy, Ickworth is the perfect place to get back to nature.
The team welcomes over 250,000 visitors a year to this Treasure House and its rolling Suffolk landscape. We benefit from working flexibly across departments, delivering an efficient and fun working environment. The visitor welcome team work both indoors and outdoors enjoying the difference each season brings. Together with our volunteers we bring exceptional service and have authentic conversations with every visitor.
Investing in you
We want you to learn, discover and develop your career. And we’ll do everything we can to offer you the training and support that you need to achieve your goals. We’ll work with you to plan your development in a way that’s right for your needs.
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What you'll be doing:As a Welcome and Service Assistant, you’ll be an ambassador for the Trust sharing our values and working as a team to link everything we do back to our cause. You'll provide stories about the amazing work we are doing and what supporter donations are funding, promoting local projects and our national strategy. As a team you will confidently grow members and supporters, giving them everything they need for their visit. You'll lead volunteers, and deliver high standards of presentation, ensuring all our communications with our visitors are clear and consistent, from the first click on the website, to the posters and signs around the property.
You’ll also support across departments, inspiring sales at our plant shop and making every cup count in our Porters Lodge Café.
Day to day, you’ll deliver a great all-round customer service experience. You’ll be on hand answering queries and listen to what our visitors need so you can share the right information. Your role is to make sure our visitors have the best day they can.
Great visitor experiences are in our nature, and we believe everyone should feel welcomed, appreciated and more engaged because of the excellent service you provide.
Who we're looking forWe'd love to hear from you, if you have:
- Customer focused with an understanding of the importance of great service
- A team player, but also can work on your own initiative
- Well organised and adaptable
- Willing to learn new skills
- Have a positive attitude
The packageThe National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.
- Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary
- Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
- Tax free childcare scheme
- Rental deposit loan scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Perks at work discounts i.e. gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts
- Flexible working whenever possible
- Employee assistance programme
- Free parking at most locations
- Independent financial advice
Requirements :Compliance.Eligibility to Work in the UK
Permanent f/t (37.5 hrs pw)
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