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Hostel Assistant

🏢 Scottish Youth Hostels Association • 📍 Portree, Scotland • 🕒 Today

Salary Range

£11 - £11

£1 - £1 / mo

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Location Base

Portree, Scotland

Tier-1 UK Economic Zone

Est. Take-Home Pay

68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)

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Transatlantic Parity

1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard

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Position Overview & Specifications

Do you enjoy outdoor activities and exploring your surroundings in your spare time?

From cities to islands, beaches to hills or mountains and all points in between, our youth hostels provide the perfect base for field trips, activity breaks or cultural tours.

Hostelling is open to all. We are a non-profit charity and we take our responsibilities seriously, helping guests of all ages and backgrounds to discover and experience all that is Scotland.

As a Hostel Assistant, you will be undertaking a range of hostel duties including full reception service, check-in/out, handling customer enquiries, cleaning & housekeeping and basic catering duties. You should be adaptable, as workloads & priorities can change during the busy periods.

Naturally a great communicator who loves to work as part of a team. Someone who can support and respect their colleagues, as some of the teams live in depending on location.

In return we offer:

Membership of Hostelling Scotland - so you too can enjoy the wonderful locations of our hostels and experience the great service that our guests receive when it is your time away from work.
Employee Assistance Programme
Pension and holidays
Uniform is provided

How to apply:

If you would like to join us, please forward your application form to our Portree Manager at: portreemanager@hostellingscotland.org.uk

You can also visit our website www.hostellingscotland.org.uk/careers to learn about how we process job applicants’ information and apply through our website

Please note, that we do require the successful candidate to be able to complete and provide evidence of basic Disclosure Scotland clearance as well as evidence of right to work in the UK.

Who we are:

Hostelling Scotland is a not-for-profit charity with over 60 youth and affiliate hostels. Since 1931, we have welcomed millions of visitors through our doors, helping them to ‘get outside’, to explore what Scotland got to offer, discovering the beautiful locations and the natural benefits of the great outdoors.