At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure guest safety overnight and assist with hotel operations.
- Company: Join a friendly hotel team in a picturesque village near Oxford.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, service charge, free meals, and discounts across hotels.
- Other info: Flexible rotas and excellent career progression opportunities await you.
- Why this job: Be part of a supportive team and enjoy a fun work environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in a similar role preferred but not essential.
The predicted salary is between 20000 - 25000 £ per year.
Location: Located just 15 miles from Oxford, Old Swan & Minster Mill is in the picturesque village of Minster Lovell. Consisting of both a quintessentially country English Inn and a modern riverside hotel. We pay our team service charge each month, which is shared amongst all the team at the hotel. Service charge can be in the region of £150 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay for a full-time employee. The Old Swan & Minster Mill offers a relaxed, fun yet professional environment to work in. Free parking is available on site, and we do offer discounted staff taxis for those that don’t drive.
Night Porter – Overview: Come and join our team as a Night Porter and let your passion and personality shine. Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our guests. As a Night Porter, you will keep the hotel and its guests safe overnight. Experience in a similar role is preferred.
Key Responsibilities:
- Keeping the hotel and all of our guests safe overnight.
- Compliance is important, meaning you’ll keep on top of the nightly audits.
- You’ll answer any questions our guests may have overnight.
- A handover is very important, so that our day staff know what happened overnight.
- We’re all responsible for keeping the hotel looking perfect for our guests, so a little tidying overnight is essential.
- You’ll help the restaurant team by getting the restaurant laid for breakfast.
Work/life balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair with our rotas. We just ask that you can be flexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.
Perks and Benefits:
- Competitive pay – we are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
- Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
- Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group and your friends and family get special rates too.
- We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
- Meals when you are on duty are free.
- We encourage our teams to be curious. Everyone can learn and develop – our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
- We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
- We celebrate each year you are with us – milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea or dinner for you and someone special and special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift specially chosen for you.
About our family of hotels: We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable. Each of our hotels is unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.
Night Porter in Minster Lovell employer: Old Swan
Join our vibrant family at Old Swan & Minster Mill, where work is a pleasure and every team member is valued. Located in the charming village of Minster Lovell, just 15 miles from Oxford, we offer competitive pay above the National Living Wage, a generous service charge shared among the team, and numerous perks including discounts across our unique hotels. With a strong focus on employee growth through our 'Family First' development pathways and a supportive work culture that prioritises well-being, we ensure that your career as a Spa Manager is both rewarding and enjoyable.
