Food and Beverage Assistant

What we need in a nutshell

We need someone who understands that food and drink are central to a happy holiday. Someone who can look after our guests’ every whim when they eat, drink and relax in our bars and restaurants.

Sandy Balls Holiday Park is not only unique for its unusual name but read on and you’ll get to know more. Set in the heart of the beautiful New Forest just 5 minutes from Fordingbridge and 6 Miles from Ringwood this premium Holiday Park location is a true gem.

Sandy Balls is a very diverse day to day operation with everything from swimming pools. play areas, retail outlets, entertainment venues, sports & leisure facilities & loads of indoor and outdoor activities and pretty much open all year round.

A £6 Million + Development of Luxury Lodges & unique Holiday Homes has just been completed (bringing our total fleet to over 250 2-4 bedroom Holiday Homes). This enables us to provide a simply outstanding range & choice of accommodation which is the envy of the Holiday Park sector.

What you’ll be doing

You will be supporting the Food & Beverage Manager to manage our F&B team so that that you and they deliver delight in our bars and restaurants.

This includes:

• Leading, training and motivating the F&B team
• Driving profitability and up selling within the team
• Supporting and standing in for the F&B Manager
• Meeting and greetings guests with a friendly welcome
• Ensuring team are all looking after our guests
• Cashing up at the end of shifts
• Open up or close down of the facility
• Complying with all the lovely legal requirements

One more thing…holidays happen at holiday times, so you’ll need to work your magic on bank holidays and weekends too. 

Skills, experience and qualities you’ll need

We’ll provide training, but you must:

• Solid people management experience in a commercially switched-on retail or hospitality business
• Experience of managing a budget and growing profit
• Knowledge and experience of catering and its many challenges
• Energy, enthusiasm and a positive attitude
• It’s the icing on the cake if you have experience in the holiday sector specifically, but don’t worry if you haven’t, we provide plenty of training.
• It’s about your values too. We have a can-do, fun loving, people centred ethos here at Away Resorts, which is captured by our holiday heroes’ mantra of Attentive Amazing Lovers - have a read about it here and decide if it describes you.

Want to join our team? Here’s how to apply

Just click on the Apply Now button and follow the instructions. To find out more about what it’s like to work for Away Resorts, check us out at www.awayresorts.co.uk/careers.

Good Luck!

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