Charlotte House Hotel is entering an exciting new chapter, and we're looking for an experienced Bartender to help shape the next stage of our bar offering.
This part-time opportunity is for someone who knows how to create a bar people want to return to. You'll have the confidence and personality to build rapport with guests, create a welcoming atmosphere and deliver a level of service that makes every visit enjoyable and memorable.
You'll have strong experience working behind a quality bar, with excellent product knowledge and confidence serving everything from classic cocktails and premium spirits to quality wines and beers. You'll take pride in your craft, maintain consistently high standards and understand that every drink contributes to the overall guest experience.
Working closely with the Operations Manager, you'll take ownership of the day-to-day running of the bar, ensuring it is well stocked, immaculately presented and fully compliant with licensing and food safety requirements. You'll oversee stock ordering, maintain high operational standards and play an active role in developing the drinks offering, identifying opportunities to increase sales and continually enhancing the guest experience.
As the hotel continues to grow, this is an exciting opportunity to help establish Charlotte House Hotel as one of Lincoln's most desirable destinations for drinks, celebrations and hospitality.
What we're looking for
- At least two years' experience working behind a quality bar within the hospitality industry (more experience is welcomed).
- A confident, engaging personality with a genuine passion for hospitality and delivering outstanding customer service.
- Excellent knowledge of cocktails, wines, beers, premium spirits and quality coffee.
- Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining high standards.
- Commercial awareness, with the ability to maximise sales through product knowledge and customer engagement.
- Experience managing stock, placing orders and taking ownership of the day-to-day operation of a bar.
- Confidence to work independently while contributing positively as part of the wider hotel team.
- Flexibility to work evenings and weekends, usually working Friday, Saturday and Sunday 3pm -10pm.
- Applicants must be 18+
- To apply you must be able to work in the UK
If you're passionate about hospitality and want to play a key role in creating a bar that guests choose to visit time and again, we'd love to hear from you.
Who We Are
Stokes Coffee has over 120 years of passion and know-how in sourcing, roasting and blending its coffee and tea, supplying businesses locally and across the UK with exceptional quality. We operate three destination cafés across Lincolnshire. Each café offers a unique ambience, fresh, quality produce and of course the best coffee, which we roast on site, at The Lawn Café. Alongside this, our sister companies, The Blue Room and Charlotte House Hotel, offer beautiful event spaces to suit every visitor and occasion. Via our wholesale team, we also offer a comprehensive technical support package, as well as our coffee, to other cafes, so there are plenty of career opportunities to explore.
At Stokes we are passionate about our people, customers and communities and are constantly evolving to meet the challenges of a changing world, ethically, sustainably and responsibly. We have recently become a BCorp Certified business. This is a global marker, verifying we meet rigorous standards for social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. We want to partner and grow with our team members by offering a supportive work environment that provides better work-life balance, a learning culture to enhance skills, share knowledge and develop your career, as well as offer fair reward. Our management and barista pathways are open to all team members who consistently demonstrate Stokes’s behaviours and values.
We hope you'll join us on the next exciting chapter in our journey and become part of the family.
What we offer
- Enhanced annual leave entitlement
- Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day & Easter Sunday off
- Discounted food and drinks at work
- Reward & Recognition Schemes
- Training and Development including Management Pathways
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Health and Wellbeing Programme
- Employee high-street discounts
- In-store discounts
- Staff socials
- Supportive team environment
- Workplace pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Bereavement Leave
How to apply
Please send an up-to-date and relevant CV, along with a statement setting out why you would be amazing in this role. If you want to stand out from the crowd, you can send 1 minute video to [email protected].
We are fortunate to have hugely positive responses to our campaigns, and whilst we try to reply to all our lovely candidates, if you have not been contacted within two weeks, your application has unfortunately not been progressed.
Stokes values a diverse and inclusive workforce and resolutely believes that this can bring fresh ideas, thinking and approaches to the way we work and better serve our customers, partners and employees. We welcome everyone from everywhere to come and join our team. Please let us know if we can support you in any specific ways to apply to join us.
Pay: Up to £13.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Store discount
Application question(s):
- This role requires availability across the weekend (usually Friday- Sunday), are there any days , that you cannot work?
- Tell us why you want this role.
- This is a part-time role, but how many hours would you ideally work?
Work Location: In person
