Bartender - Edinburgh

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We are looking for an authentic and driven Bartender at Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel and embrace your unique, best self to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections!

We are looking for a bartender to join our team on a 30-hours per week contract!

Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel brings together traditional Edinburgh architecture with an exciting and fresh indoor feel, offering our guests a modern luxurious stay. Welcoming locals to relax in our Garden area (a must visit), experiencing mouth-watering food in BABA restaurant, or guests from far and wide being pampered in our state-of-the-art Spa - we cover it all!

As a Bartender, we will support you to:

• Be yourself - bringing the real you to work, with your unique personality we want you to be who you are!
• Lead yourself - we trust you to make decisions and exert your creativity in order to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections, we trust you to do right!
• Make it count - you matter, and we will provide you with all the tools you need in order to create ridiculously personalised experiences for our guests every day!

What do you need to be a Bartender? Your main duties and responsibilities will include ensuring high quality guest experience through the creation of unique and exciting cocktails, interacting with our guests to share your knowledge of various Beers, Wines and Spirits. You will also be assisting the wider F&B team to provide timely service! So, we are looking for someone who has:

• Experience working within a High-end Restaurant, Bar or Hotel as a Bartender or Mixologist
• Knowledge of Wines, Beers, Spirits and Cocktails - excited by being creative and sharing your skills with others
• Drive to produce results, we work together within the Kimpton family to continue to provide our guests with extremely personal experiences and human connection.
• A warm and authentic personality, with a can-do attitude and commitment to service.

Overall, you will be willing to work within our team to embrace our service and delight our guests!

Joining the Kimpton family isn't just about providing our guests with excellent service, we also have secured a spot in Fortune's '100 best companies to work for' 7 times since 2009, and it is no surprise why!

• Financial security - 12.34 per hour (19,250.40 per annum), guaranteed hours, paid overtime, a free meal on shift, paid holidays, subsidised unsocial hour travel support and enhanced sick pay! Plus Tronc paid monthly if in eligible role.
• Growth and development - extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year with a cause of your choice.
• Colleague perks - worldwide discounted room rates and discounted F&B whilst on employee rate (IHG has over 6,000 hotels and growing), plus generous friends and family rate. Discounts through our portal on your supermarket shop, experiences and loads of retailers on our perks portal.
• Wellbeing - generous maternity/paternity pay, employee assistance programme available 24/7 and access to mental health first-aiders.
• Hotel specific benefits - complimentary stay for you+1 in our Hotel upon successful completion of probation, generous discounts across our F&B outlets at Kimpton Charlotte Square and InterContinental Edinburgh The George Hotel plus Spa and gym discounts at our Kimpton property.

If you are someone who likes to march to the beat of their own drum and wants to join a company which encourages authentic individuality, apply today! Check out our Instagram page @kimptoncharlottesquare to see more.

You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants crafts unique destinations that kindle heartfelt human connections. Our bespoke spaces blend spirit, style and delight to create an addictive culture of refined irreverence where locals, visitors & colleagues seamlessly connect.

Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the 'Apply' button. Start your journey with us today.