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We are looking for an authentic and driven Restaurant Team Leader (Full-Time) to join us at Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel and embrace your unique, best self to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections!

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 Restaurant Team Leader, 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 Restaurant Team Leader? Well, your main duties and responsibilities will be supporting our Restaurant Manager to run our extremely popular BABA Restaurant. You will support in the absence of the manager to run the restaurant and deal with any high-level service recoveries, making sure that our customers are being provided the best service possible. You will also be involved with the training of new starters and continuous development of our team members, you will be someone who is passionate about leading by example. So, we are looking for someone who has…

• Availability to work 40 hours per week across 5 shifts (weekend and evening availability is essential)
• Experience working within a Restaurant, Bar or Hotel as a Supervisor, Team Leader or Assistant Manager (or evidence of steps you have taken to be ready for progression)
• Passion for providing an excellent guest service, you will be someone who enjoys interacting with guests to ensure they are having a uniquely personal experience!
• Experience developing and coaching team members to make sure that they are performing at their best
• 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 surprises why! We can offer you…

Financial security - £13.96 per hour (£29,036.80 per annum FTE), 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.Wagestream - a financial wellbeing app giving you the opportunity to save, track and withdraw your pay as you earn it.

• 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.

Who we are

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.

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