The hospitality industry continues to create exciting career opportunities for job seekers looking to build a rewarding future in hotels, resorts, serviced apartments, and guest accommodations. From world-class luxury hotels to budget-friendly properties, employers are actively hiring professionals across a wide range of departments. Whether you’re a recent graduate, an experienced hospitality professional, or someone seeking an entry-level position, hotel jobs offer competitive salaries, valuable work experience, career advancement, and opportunities to work in a customer-focused environment.
Hotel employment opportunities are available in luxury hotels, boutique hotels, business hotels, resorts, budget hotels, extended-stay properties, and international hospitality brands. Employers regularly recruit Front Desk Receptionists, Guest Service Associates, Housekeeping Staff, Hotel Managers, Restaurant Servers, Chefs, Kitchen Assistants, Bartenders, Concierge Staff, Bell Attendants, Reservation Agents, Event Coordinators, Sales Executives, Spa Therapists, Security Officers, Maintenance Technicians, and Administrative Professionals. Many hotels also provide on-the-job training, making the industry an excellent choice for both freshers and experienced candidates.
One of the greatest advantages of working in the hotel industry is the opportunity for long-term career growth. Employees can begin in entry-level roles and gradually progress into supervisory, management, and executive leadership positions. International hotel chains also provide opportunities for transfers between cities and countries, allowing hospitality professionals to gain global experience and develop successful long-term careers.
The qualifications required for hotel jobs vary depending on the role. Entry-level positions such as housekeeping, front desk support, food service, and guest assistance may require a high school diploma or equivalent. Supervisory and management roles often require a diploma or bachelor’s degree in hospitality management, tourism, business administration, or a related field. Employers also value candidates with strong communication skills, customer service experience, language proficiency, and a positive attitude.
Front office professionals play a vital role in creating a positive first impression for guests. Receptionists and guest service associates manage reservations, check-ins, check-outs, room assignments, billing, and guest inquiries while delivering exceptional customer service. Strong organizational skills, professionalism, and problem-solving abilities are essential for success in these positions.
Housekeeping teams ensure guest rooms and public areas remain clean, comfortable, and welcoming. Their responsibilities include cleaning rooms, changing linens, replenishing supplies, inspecting accommodations, and maintaining high hygiene standards. Hotels rely on dedicated housekeeping professionals to provide guests with a pleasant and memorable stay.
Food and beverage departments offer rewarding careers for chefs, cooks, restaurant managers, bartenders, waitstaff, and banquet professionals. These employees prepare meals, serve guests, maintain food safety standards, and contribute significantly to the overall guest experience. Luxury hotels often recruit experienced culinary professionals for fine dining restaurants, conferences, and special events.
Hotel managers oversee daily operations, coordinate staff, manage budgets, maintain service quality, and ensure guest satisfaction. They are responsible for improving operational efficiency while maintaining high hospitality standards. Leadership, communication, financial management, and decision-making skills are essential for management positions within the hospitality industry.
Technology has become increasingly important in modern hotel operations. Hotels use property management systems, online booking platforms, digital payment solutions, customer relationship management software, and revenue management tools to improve efficiency and enhance guest experiences. Candidates with digital skills and hospitality software knowledge have excellent employment prospects in today’s competitive market.
Working in the hotel industry offers many benefits beyond competitive salaries. Depending on the employer, employees may receive accommodation, meals during shifts, health insurance, retirement plans, paid leave, performance bonuses, employee discounts, professional training programs, and opportunities for promotion. Many international hotel brands also provide leadership development programs and global career opportunities.
To improve your chances of securing a hotel job, prepare a professional resume highlighting your hospitality experience, customer service skills, language abilities, certifications, and technical knowledge. Employers value candidates who demonstrate professionalism, teamwork, adaptability, attention to detail, and a genuine commitment to delivering outstanding guest experiences. Preparing for interviews and understanding hospitality service standards can further strengthen your application.
The global hospitality industry continues to grow as tourism, business travel, conferences, and leisure activities increase. Luxury resorts, international hotel chains, boutique hotels, and budget accommodations regularly recruit talented professionals to support expanding operations. This steady demand creates excellent career opportunities for candidates at every experience level.
If you are passionate about customer service and hospitality, hotel employment offers a rewarding career with outstanding growth potential. Explore the latest hotel job openings across luxury and budget properties, review the eligibility requirements, prepare your application carefully, and apply before the recruitment deadlines. With dedication, professionalism, and strong hospitality skills, you can build a successful long-term career in one of the world’s most dynamic and welcoming industries.
Deputy Hotel Manager
We’re looking for a hands‑on, motivated Deputy Hotel Manager to support the Hotel Manager in delivering outstanding operations, service excellence and commercial performance across our hotel.
If you thrive in a fast‑paced hospitality environment, enjoy developing people and have a passion for high standards, this role offers an exciting opportunity to make a real impact.
As a Deputy Hotel Manager, you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring the hotel runs smoothly every day- providing visible leadership, supporting Heads of Department, and deputising for the Hotel Manager during periods of absence.
You’ll help drive high performance across all departments, ensuring teams are well-trained, well‑resourced and delivering consistently excellent service. With a strong focus on operational excellence, compliance and guest satisfaction, you’ll support the hotel’s success from both a service and commercial perspective.
What you will be doing…
- Support the Hotel Manager across all areas of hotel management to ensure seamless daily operations.
- Confidently deputise for the Hotel Manager, maintaining quality, consistency and leadership when needed.
- Work closely with Heads of Department to ensure departmental efficiency, performance and compliance.
- Support the control of financial performance including sales, profit margins, budgets, wage costs and payroll.
- Help ensure all financial targets are met and expenditure remains within forecast.
- Identify risks to peWork closely with the People Team to support recruitment, induction and development of departmental leaders and their teams.
- Coach, mentor and motivate Heads of Department to improve capability, engagement and accountability.
About you…
- Significant experience managing large teams across multiple hotel or hospitality departments.
- A leadership style that promotes culture, engagement, development and accountability.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience supporting financial performance.
- Excellent IT skills and confidence using a range of systems.
- Strong organisational ability to manage a varied and demanding workload.
- High emotional intelligence, with the ability to lead through change and resolve conflict constructively.
- Experience supporting or delivering large‑scale operational or commercial projects.
- Flexibility to work evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
So, why Parkdean Resorts?
Well, besides the one-of-a-kind team culture, stunning locations across the UK, and the chance to work with the UK’s largest holiday park organisation, we can offer:
- The chance to develop your skills and boost your career across our 65 parks – we’ve got your back when it comes to training!
- You’re never on your own with our Employee Assistance Programme! It comes with a 24/7 confidential helpline for counselling and support – because your wellbeing is our top priority.
- A 50% discount for you and a 25% discount for friends and family when booking your holiday with us.
- A team member discount of 30%, available on everything from fabulous food to delicious drinks and even our fun leisure activities.
- Score awesome discounts! From tasty meal kits like Hello Fresh to your favourite local gyms, we’ve got deals on lots of brands just for you.
We want to be a force for good and caring for our parks, people, and planet is a natural component of the way we do business. We celebrate our people, communities and natural environment, enabling us to enhance the amazing memories we create for many years to come.
Nights Assistant Reception Manager
The Belfry Hotel & Resort is an award-winning destination with 450+ luxurious rooms and suites, a selection of vibrant restaurants and bars, versatile event and meeting spaces and a relaxing leisure club and spa. Our three exceptional golf courses – including the legendary Brabazon – are celebrated around the world. Whether you’re inspired by our iconic fairways, drawn to the tranquillity of the spa, excited by guest-facing roles, or energised by the work behind the scenes, you’ll find your place within our dynamic and welcoming team.
The Belfry has undergone a major expansion and renovation with an investment of over £80 million, marking an exciting chapter in our history. The resort has been transformed with the addition of The Masters Suite, a stunning new event space, a state-of-the-art leisure club plus a host of other enhancements that elevate the Belfry experience like never before.
We believe in taking care of our team just as much as we do our guests. That’s why we were named in the 2026 Caterer’s Top 30 Best Places to Work and the Sunday Times Top 10 Places to Work 2026.
The Nights team brings the resort to life when the sun goes down, ensuring every guest feels welcomed, cared for, and valued. From smooth check-ins and warm farewells to anticipating needs before they’re even asked, this team turns ordinary moments into memorable experiences.
Salary
The annual salary is £30,014.40 , plus service charges.
About the role:
As Nights Assistant Reception Manager you will be leading the night operation across the resort. Responsible for managing the team and maintaining consistently high standards of service and ensuring a flawless guest experience whilst creating a work environment that supports the Belfry values. You will lead by example and provide full support to the nights team to ensure seamless running of the business.
As the Nights Assistant Reception Manager, you will be:
- Assisting the Night Operations Manager
- Assisting in running the night operation across the resort and stepping up in the Night Operations Manager’s absence. Being on the floor and ready to assist across all departments and making decisions to help and improve the service offered to our guests.
- Providing excellent guest service, resolving problems when they arise and identifying opportunities to make guests’ experiences memorable and enjoyable
- Responsible for the health and safety of guests in house – record all accidents and incidents that may occur within the hotel for guests and staff
- Assisting with the Night Audit
- To be available at all times to deal with guest queries and/or complaints, monitoring guest satisfaction with regular reporting to the General Manager.
- To support the night cleaning staff and ensure they are carrying out the duties allocated to them.
- To check all public areas, including conference rooms, to ensure they have been cleaned and serviced correctly.
- Co-ordinating and completing the night roster and dealing with any staff absenteeism issues.
- To be a champion in your department for our waste management and ESG commitments
- To maintain a good working relationship with all colleagues, being able to motivate the night’s team to ensure each member is achieving a high level of performance in their role and provide necessary support where required.
Ideal Candidate:
At The Belfry, we are committed to your professional growth and success. The ideal candidate for this role will have had experience working in a similar setting and has worked nights before.
In addition, you will have:
- Excellent customer service skills with a genuine desire to deliver exceptional experiences to every guest
- An experienced manager who has led teams within a front office environment
- Fantastic eye for detail
- Experienced in taking ownership over your department and achieving financial and guest targets
- Able to develop strong relationships with your guests, team, and colleagues
People Partner
Department: Business
Responsible to: People & Culture Director
Contract: Permanent – to start handover ideally by mid-August
Location: The Old Vic, 103 The Cut, London, SE1 8NB (some home-working)
Hours: Full-Time – 40 hours per week, 10am-6pm, Monday-Friday
The Old Vic offers the ability to work these flexibly under the guidelines in our New Ways of Working policy. Additional hours may be necessary in order to fulfil the requirements of the post
Salary: £46,000 per annum
Direct reports: None
Role Summary
The People Partner is responsible for running projects alongside overseeing the day-to-day delivery of practical guidance, advice and support to all departments at a senior level. The People Partner will lead operational HR generalism on organisation wide People projects and advice aligned with the strategic People Plan. They are responsible for ensuring The Old Vic’s policies, processes and practices are up to date and compliant and will continuously seek to improve our inclusive working practices.
Your Team
The People team consists of the People & Culture Director and People Coordinator, and sits within the wider Business team, led by the COO/Deputy CEO.
Areas of responsibility
The People Partner will be responsible for:
Recruitment and staffing:
- Overarching management of our Hiring processes (internal and external – for casuals, permanent staff and freelance staff) to ensure it is inclusive and in line with our Recruitment Guidebook, fit for purpose and a positive candidate experience
- Supporting managers to consider reviews of structures prior to recruitment
- Working with the People Coordinator in auditing job descriptions and adverts to ensure inclusive language
- Overseeing the People Coordinator and Hiring managers to ensure a smooth process for approving vacancies, advertising roles, shortlisting of candidates and coordinating interviews
- Reviewing our job boards to ensure we’re reaching a wide and relevant talent pool
- Working with line managers to continuously improve our welcome and oversee onboarding of all new starters (HR induction, OV Welcome Days)
- Assist with any escalated complex queries or feedback received to our Jobs Inbox
- Working with external agencies and partners on roles as needed from time to time and maintaining our Preferred Supplier List
- Producing recruitment and ED&I metrics and analysis as requested, as well as tracking success and cost effectiveness of recruitment advertising campaigns and how to improve them going forward
On-boarding and off-boarding:
- Reviewing and approving new joiner paperwork (including a variety of employment contracts) drafted by the People Coordinator
- Analysing feedback and suggesting action plans from exit interviews with leavers, onboarding surveys and Old Vic quarterly Welcome induction day feedback
- Checking in as a friendly face for all our new joiners
- Providing advice to line managers during probation periods and coaching managers on the process in the event of poor performance extensions or failures
- Seeking to continuously improve experience during onboarding and offboarding
Hotel Manager
Hotel Manager – Premier Inn – Nottingham Castle Maria – Secondment until 29th October 2026
Salary £30,500- £32,500
Intro:
Become the leader of a hospitality Dream Team and take hotel management at Premier Inn to even greater levels of guest satisfaction.
As a Hotel Manager at the UK’s leading hotel brand, you’ll be taking our famous name to more guests, keeping our unique culture alive with your team and using your management experience and skills to make your hotel a success.
As the leader of the hotel, you’re responsible for the safety of everyone within it. Manage your team, develop them, bring out the best in them and be rewarded with a vibrant Premier Inn that delights guests time and time again.
Location:
Castle Marina Park, Castle Bridge Road, Nottingham
NG7 1GX
Why you’ll love it here:
- Award-winning induction and training
- Performance-related company bonus scheme, Pension Scheme and Share Save Scheme
- Whitbread Privilege Card giving you 25% off in our restaurants and up to 50% off in our Premier Inn Hotels.
- 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
- Get discounts at shops, your utility bills, travel, cinema trips, supermarkets and more through Perks at Work.
What you’ll do:
- Lead and motivate our team of Front of House, Housekeeping, Back of House and Maintenance to ensure outstanding service and compliance with our brand standards
- Work with the team to manage daily operations within the hotel, including the bar and kitchen, to keep us the UK’s number one
- Understand the bigger picture and what really matters in your hotel to drive improvement and spot commercial opportunities
- Ensure health and safety standards are met throughout the hotel and oversee food service operations to maintain our high-quality standards
What you’ll need:
- Previous management experience in the hospitality industry or similar environment where you led a team to success
- Strong leadership skills with a passion for customer service
- Excellent team management and communication skills with a warm, genuine approach to people and a capacity to engender trust and win support at all levels
- Commitment to safety and maintaining high standards of service
Be a part of Premier Inn – a Great British business
At Premier Inn, we do hotel jobs differently. Award-winning training. All the support you need to develop. And brilliant career prospects with the UK’s biggest hotel brand. It’s about giving our own people a great experience, so they give our guests the great all-round experience they expect from us.
General Manager
Leaf HOSPITALITY is seeking a commercially minded and people-focused General Manager to lead one of our hotels.
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, this is an opportunity for a hotel leader who enjoys building high-performing teams, driving standards, and delivering exceptional guest experiences while improving overall business performance.
As General Manager, you will have responsibility for the operational and financial performance of the hotel, leading the senior leadership team and ensuring every department is aligned to deliver outstanding service, strong commercial results and a positive team culture.
About You
We’re looking for someone who can demonstrate:
- Previous senior hotel leadership experience as a General Manager, Hotel Manager or Operations Manager within a quality hotel environment.
- Strong commercial awareness with experience driving revenue growth and business performance.
- Significant Food & Beverage, banqueting and Spa experience.
- Excellent financial management skills, including budgeting, forecasting and cost control.
- A track record of developing, coaching and retaining high-performing teams.
- Strong knowledge of health, safety and compliance requirements.
- The ability to build strong relationships with owners, colleagues, guests and the local community.
- A hands-on leadership style with a passion for hospitality and service excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the overall operation and performance of the hotel.
- Inspire, coach and develop the senior leadership team.
- Drive commercial performance and identify opportunities for growth.
- Maintain exceptional guest satisfaction and service standards.
- Ensure robust financial controls, forecasting and business planning.
- Lead regular business reviews and performance meetings.
- Oversee major events and key operational activities.
- Act as an ambassador for the hotel within the local market and community.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Team Member discounted stays across the leaf HOSPITALITY portfolio.
- 50% discount on food and beverage.
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
- Enhanced annual leave and family leave benefits.
- Additional pension contribution.
- Long-service recognition award of up to £500.
This hotel is managed by leaf HOSPITALITY who is a hotel management company that has one simple value that underpins everything we do: be excellent. We work with branded and independent hotels. Our vision is to be a leader in the market where every member of our team plays a part in delivering excellent service to our guests, owners, and team members.
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