Guest Services Assistant

**Job Ref**:KGH9485

**Branch**:Holiday Inn Ipswich-Orwell

**Location**:Holiday Inn Ipswich-Orwell, Ipswich

**Salary/Benefits**:£11.75 per hour, 16 hours per week

**Contract type**:Permanent

**Hours**:Part Time

**Shift pattern**:4:00pm-7:00am

**Hours per week**:16

**Posted date**:23/10/2024

**Closing date**:25/11/2024

**The role**

Our **Nights** **Guest Service Assistants** are responsible for ensuring every guest receives a safe, outstanding experience during out-of-hours. This role reports directly to the Guest Service Manager and is part of a team based from our attractive hotel in IP3

Nights Guest Service Assistant duties include:

- supporting your hotel in achieving all brand and company metrics and objectives
- building and developing relationships with guests, assessing their needs and flexing style and approach appropriately?
- ensuring all repeat guests, priority members and VIP’s receive recognition and appreciation?
- following SOPs to ensure consistent hospitality for all guests
- maintaining a high level of product and service knowledge about all IHG hotels in your region and promote the hotel, products and services and IHG to all guests

Beyond that, you'll represent our company values and culture, ensuring that service excellence remains our top priority.

Other businesses may call this role Front Office Assistant or Food and Beverage Assistant, Guest Experience Assistant, Hotel Services Assistant.

**Benefits**

Our rewards package includes:

- Annual Conference Event and Awards
- Apprenticeships
- Robust career development opportunities and support for personal growth
- Attractive discounts across many major retailers, restaurants, and events
- Complementary Employee, Family and Friends discounts in hotels across the Kew Green Hotels portfolio and at partner hotels worldwide
- 50% off food and beverage while you stay in our hotels
- 24/7, 365 days Employee Assistance Line for mental health and wellbeing support, financial and legal advice
- FREE and UNLIMITED access to our Leisure Clubs (gym, pool, steam rooms)

**What you’ll bring to the team**

Ideally, you will have some previous experience in a fast-paced, customer facing role and passion for outstanding Customer Service. Due to the nature of the role the ability to anticipate guests needs is highly desirable. You will also be comfortable using a range of technology, including MS Office.

**Next steps**

A member of the hotel team will be in touch to book a 15-minute chat so we can get to know you better. We will explain the role in detail, and you can highlight your skills to us. If successful at this stage, you will meet Business Excellence Manager / Guest Service Manager.

**Who are Kew Green Hotels?**

Kew Green Hotels is a rapidly expanding global company, with a diverse portfolio across leading hotel chains, including IHG Hotels Resorts, Marriott International, Wyndham Hotels Resorts and Hilton, what unites us all is our values. Please view our website for more details.

Join our Kew-Team today

A comfortable Ipswich Hotel with a restaurant and conference facilities. Just off the A14, Holiday Inn Ipswich-Orwell is right next to the Ransomes Europark buiness park. We're only a 15-minute drive from Ipswich town centre, and buses run from outside the Hotel. Ipswich station offers direct trains into London. Our versatile meeting rooms can cater for up to 160 guests and our dedicated conference host can help take care of all the details. We're also a licensed wedding venue, with packages for all budgets. Head by to the neat by Christchurch Mansion to admire works artists Constable and Gainsborough in it's Wolsey Art Gallery, or visit Ipswich Waterfront for bistro dining and boat trips on the river Orwell. The seaside town of Aldeburgh and the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon burial site are both with half an hour by car. At this Hotel you can enjoy: Free WiFi, free on site parking, kids stay and eat free Our confortably furnished rooms all come with pillow menus and Smart TVs. Start your day with a full English breakfast buffet, and dine on international dishes in the Priory Restaurant. Keep fit in the mini gym or head to nearby David Llyod Ipswich to swim laps, play tennis or unwind in the spa. After a busy day, relax with a pint in the lounge or our leafy garden.