Scudamore's River Tour Guide Returner 2025

5 days ago

Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB RS United Kingdom Scudamore's Punting Company Ltd Full time

We're delighted to hear that you'd like to return as a River Tour Guide at Scudamore's.

PLEASE NOTE that in order to allow our current Winter team full priority for shift allocation in the coming weeks, roster requests from returning staff will be taken into consideration from the 23rd November. Please email if you have any further questions. 

Your role

Here's a quick reminder of what the role entails and what we look for in our River Tour Guides:

What's involved?

  • Delivering a memorable punt tour that is informative, inspiring and entertaining.
  • Offering effective and courteous ticket sales within a competitive environment.
  • Giving a warm, considerate and attentive welcome to all customers.
  • Maintaining a safe working environment on station and on the river.
  • Providing a timely, consistently high-quality service in line with our standards and Company values.

What makes you a Scudamore's River Tour Guide?

  • You're friendly, approachable and enthusiastic, with great interpersonal skills.
  • You enjoy engaging with people and are committed to providing outstanding customer service.
  • You're a confident public speaker and have an excellent command of spoken English.
  • You're self-motivated, keen to learn, and have the ability to absorb and share knowledge.
  • You're physically active, energetic and enjoy working outdoors.

The returners' process

Our training and coaching programme is unique to us and is the gold standard for visitor attractions in Cambridge. Its purpose is to equip our staff with the skills, knowledge and confidence which will enable them to give our customers the best possible experience.

With this in mind we induct all returners and assess their river tours for quality purposes before they start working for us again. To ensure we are providing our customers with the very best guided tour possible, you may be asked to complete some additional training and a skills test. This will be decided depending on how long you have been away from the river and your current tour score. This will also need to be completed before you can apply for shifts. Once you have completed your returners form Marcello will be in touch about training.

Other information

Special demands of the role

As you will recall, this role is physically demanding and requires you to remain on your feet throughout the working day in various weather conditions. In addition, the punting element requires good balance, an appropriate level of fitness and basic swimming ability.

Need to know

We operate an equal opportunities policy and recruit only on the basis of work criteria and individual merit.

By law we are required to ensure that anyone taking up employment at Scudamore's has a legal right to work in the UK and you will be required to demonstrate this.

This application is for previous Scudamore's staff members. For new candidates please go to our main website to see our current vacancies. 

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