Attraction Assistant Casual
Attraction Assistant Casual
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Job Purpose
Attraction Assistant Retail Casual hours available
Temporary casual work opportunities includes weekends
**Working days & hours very flexible**
Based: Trevor Basin Visitor Centre LL20 7TY.
Salary:13.68 per hour
Are you looking for some occasional hours in an exciting customer service environment Do you enjoy interacting with customers from across the UK and world Do you need the flexibility to work occasionally when it fits in with your daytoday life
Our World Heritage Site Visitor Centre is a thriving and historic visitor attraction in North Wales close to Wrexham and Llangollen and we want to ensure that all our visitors have a fantastic welcome and a memorable visit.
We have exciting activities and events all year round and are looking now to recruit people with a strong customer service focus a welcoming approach and the flexibility to work on our welcome desk servicing customers in our onsite shop to ensure that every visitor has a memorable experience.
As a Casual Attraction Assistant you will be working in the retail area of the visitor centre offering a wonderful warm welcome visitors from all over the world. Your focus is to make sure that every visit is memorable. The role is incredibly diverse and may include welcoming tour groups selling popular merchandise assisting with events and activities cleaning the visitor centre directing families around the siteselling ice cream engaging with boaters assisting with demonstrations and working very closely with volunteers.
The Canal & River Trust is one of the UKs largest charities we maintain 2000 miles of historic canals rivers docks and reservoirs along with museums archives and the countrys third largest collection of protected historic buildings preserving them for future generations. Find our more about us by visiting our website here https://canalrivertrust/aboutus
Knowledge Skills/Qualifications & Experience
If you care about ensuring a memorable visitor experience wed love to hear from you. As a Casual Attraction Assistant your working hours will be ad hoc and as needed to support visitor events. You will be mainly working weekends/bank holidays. Full training & uniforms will be provided.
Responsibilities of the role will include:
- Provide a warm welcome and a positive customerexperience.
- Selling retail items or supporting an activity at an event ensuring every visitor feels welcomed and is keen to return.
- Ensure that customer excellence is a priority at all times being approachable and helpfulin responding quickly to questions and dealing with enquiries particularly when on the welcome desk or by phone/email.
- Promotion and delivery of special events.
- Flexible approach to the rota to work across departments involving retail and admissions/welcome desk.
- Ensure retail stock is kept up to date replaced recorded and help to prepare any stocktaking counts.
- Support the team with general administrative duties that arise throughout the day such as distributing post receiving and recording general deliveries.
About you
If youd love to work in a unique fun and engaging busy visitor attraction with a pretty special iconic status then this may be just the environment for you.
Youll understand how the role you play in every customer contact can really have an impact on their enjoyment of their visit to us whether holiday special event educational day out or quick visit for with friends. You are able to work occasionally through the week but understand that the weekends bank holidays and school holiday periods are when you are most likely to work.
Skills & Experiences:
- You may have some relevant experience in a similar customer facing environment (e.g retail hospitality) however more importantly you can demonstrate you understand what a great customer experience is
- Basic IT skills using Microsoft Office & Internet and willing to learn our systems
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills courteous and helpful
- Ability to work well under pressure during busy periods and thrive on a busy working environment
- Attention to detail
- Ability to prioritise tasks and manage workload
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in contact with one of the recruitment team at
If youd love to work in a unique fun and engaging busy visitor attraction with a pretty special iconic status then wed love to hear from you.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
What We Offer
These are casual opportunities with no guaranteed rota or set hours. Working days & hours are really flexible. Your rate of pay will be based 13.68 per hour.
As multiple roles are available we will be interviewing candidates whilst the vacancy is open.
Find out more about the work we do and opportunities we have on our website:https://canalrivertrust/aboutus
You will be working with a friendlycaring team to deliver an very important service offering our customers across the waterway a positive experience and a desire to return. Get involved in organising and delivering great fun events that spread knowledge and understanding of the Canal & River Trust and the great work we do.
At the Trust we care passionately for our waterways and as importantly for those who look after and use them. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas thinking and ways of working which enhances what we do as a Trust. We are striving to represent the diverse communities that we are a part of. All candidates will be treated on the basis of their merits skills and abilities and solely by being assessed against the requirements for the job. Many of our vacancies can be considered for people who wish to work flexibly job share or part time.
Employment Type
Gig
