Job Ref: JI19122
Branch: Leonardo Hotel Southampton
Location: Leonardo Hotel Southampton
Salary/Benefits: Hotel Benefits and Career Opportunities
Contract type: Casual
Hours: Full Time
Shift pattern: on Rota Base
Hours per week: casual hours
Posted date: 16/05/2023
Closing date: 18/06/2023
Be Yourself – Be a Bold Team Player – Be Leonardo
As a Bartender you’ll be one of the faces of the hotel, so we want you to bring your warm and friendly personality to work with you every day. Take a deep breath because you’ll be stepping into a busy role! You’ll be preparing and serving drinks and cocktails, entertaining and welcoming our guests, and working as part of a vibrant team to deliver first-class hospitality.
If you’re our ideal Bartender, you will:
- Be yourself!
- Be a great host for our guests – we greet guests from all around the world in our hotels so you’ll meet a really diverse range of people!
- Have a genuine passion for hospitality and going the extra mile
- Be a ‘show off’, and showcase your skills: we want to see your flair for drinks and cocktail making!
- Preferably, have previous experience working in a bar
Why come join us?
We look after our colleagues just as well as we look after our guests. Once you’re part of the team, you’re part of the Leonardo community. We have support on tap, so expect top-notch LD programmes, practical training and clear progression within our vibrant and dynamic team.
Our Story
Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we are part of the Fattal Hotels Group, which operates over 230 hotels across Europe and Israel. We look after over 50 hotels across the UK Ireland and have plans for major expansion over the next few years - there’s never been a more exciting time to join us!
Some of the perks our colleagues enjoy include:
- Special rates on Leonardo Hotel rooms across the UK Europe: get planning that city break you’ve been dreaming of!
- Company-wide recognition scheme: for being your fabulous self, you could earn vouchers to spend on a wide range of high street shops
- Free hot meals whilst on duty
- Talent referral scheme: earn yourself a bonus for recommending a friend to join us
- We love to get together and celebrate: we regularly host Thank You Week (your hotel could have anything from ice cream trucks to pizza parties) and every year we get dressed up in our fanciest threads to host our Employee Awards Celebration
- The important stuff: access to the Company Pension Scheme, Life Assurance and Wellbeing Support
- Ongoing job-related training programmes with clear paths for progression
This low-key town-centre hotel, set lies 0.4 miles from Southampton City Art Gallery and 1.4 miles from the Port of Southampton. Modern rooms and suites come with free Wi-Fi and flat-screen TVs, plus work desks, and tea and coffeemaking facilities. Some add seating areas. The property has a casual restaurant, and a bar serving pub-style fare, as well as an all-day coffee shop and 9 meeting rooms.
At Leonardo Hotels, our vision is very simple: to be the first choice for everyone who values genuine hospitality.
Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we are part of the Fattal Hotels Group, which operates over 230 hotels across Europe and Israel. We look after over 50 hotels here in the UK Ireland, and have come a long way since we opened our first hotel in Ireland back in 1993! With approximately 4,000 employees and multiple brands we are a dynamic, innovative and fast-growing company.
As an employer we put a big emphasis on career development and as a rule we recruit our operations team members for personality- it is all about how you interact with others and how you can demonstrate our values: Consistent, Friendly, Genuine, Positive and Willing.
At Leonardo Hotels each and every team member is individually valued and respected for who you are. All careers within our hotels offer customer interaction, a great deal of variety, and a fun and friendly working environment. We strive to make all of our hotels great places to work, and get our teams involved in activities such as summer barbecues, Christmas parties, Thank You Week and birthday celebrations!
We also offer excellent employee benefits, including huge discounts on overnight stays at our hotels as well as performance-based rewards via our Leo Points system- these range from vouchers to a well-deserved day off!