Service Assistant - Nr Kingsbridge
- Employer
- The National Trust
- Location
- Kingsbridge, Devon
- Salary
- 9.60 per hour
- Closing date
- 9 Jun 2022
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Job Details
Summary
As this is an outdoors role, you will need to be comfortable working on your feet and in all weather conditions. The hours required per week will be between 20 to 25 hours dependent on volumes of visitors. You will be part of a rota programme up to 4 to 5 days a week and will include some weekend shifts. Due to the location personal transport is essential to the role.
You’ll also be responsible for making sure visitors can find everything they need for their visit.
The salary: £9.60 per hour
The Duration: Fixed Term Contract until 31 August 2022
What it's like to work here
Do you love working with people from all ages and backgrounds? Can you provide service with a smile to hundreds of customers, every day?
This role is an hourly paid, fixed term role and your availability to start beginning of July through to the end of August. Understanding wherever possible we aim to offer a consistent working pattern, but we’re looking for flexibility as it may be necessary for us to alter this pattern from time to time to suit the needs of the business. However, a typical working day will start between 9.30 and 10am and finish around 2pm.
What you'll be doing
Visitors are a vital part of what we do. As a Service Assistant it’s your role to ensure that the welcome our visitors receive is perfect, setting them up for an amazing experience for the rest of the day. As part of the visitor welcome experience you will need to assist in helping direct cars to a safe and accessible parking area.
Who we're looking for
This job is all about providing excellent customer service. We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- A can do attitude
- Genuine enthusiasm for working with people
- Excellent customer service skills
- A willingness to learn new skills
- Ability to work well in a team
- Good understanding of the National Trust and what we do
The package
The 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.
Wherever you’re from, and whatever your background, we want to hear from you – and it doesn’t matter if you’re jam first, cream first, or even if you don’t like scones at all. Everyone is welcome.
Benefits for working at the National Trust include:
- Flexible working whenever possible
- Free parking at most locations
- Free entry to our properties for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
- Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary
Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer to support you.
Company
The National Trust is committed to promoting and preserving those places of natural beauty and historic interest for which it has the privilege to be responsible for the benefit of the nation, for everyone for ever.
The Trust is proud of what has been achieved over the last 126 years and is determined to maintain those high standards of conservation, stewardship and curatorial care for which it has been recognised throughout the world.
Its achievements have enabled the general public and the Trust’s members and visitors to enjoy and appreciate the countryside, coastline, gardens, historic buildings and collections, all of which encapsulate so much of the history of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There is a duty to tell that history in a complete, balanced and accurate way, and without judgement.
The National Trust continues as a guardian of the past, and for the future, to uphold its duty to maintain and enhance what has been entrusted to its care.
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