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Visitor Services Assistant - Engagement
Organisation: The National Trust for Scotland
Salary: £12.60 Per Hour
Location: Culloden Moor, Inverness IV2 5EU
JOB PURPOSE
As a front-line member of the Engagement team your job is give an amazing welcome and tell the story of the Culloden Battlefield. You will be working in the gallery delivering handling workshops, delivering daily tours in the peak season, costumed presentations and facilitating school and military programmes as well as supporting in other departments.
This role is key to the visitor experience; your role is to put smiles on faces and ensure our visitors have an amazing visit.
Benefits include
• Cycle to Work Scheme – offering excellent discounts on bicycle costs
• Up to £50 towards the cost of your glasses or contact lenses if you need them for work
• Staff discounts through Reward Gateway, our online employee discount scheme – offering a variety of discounts on a wide range of high street retail brands
• 10% discount from the rental price (excluding the booking fee and any other ancillary charges) on all self-catering holiday accommodation managed by our partner Sykes Holiday Cottages
• Your employee card gives free entry to you, any of your children under the age of 18 and one other adult to National Trust for Scotland and National Trust properties, as well as a 20% discount on most purchases in National Trust for Scotland retail outlets.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
This role will assist the Engagement team to deliver high quality visitor experience at Culloden Battlefield, and across the Culloden Cluster (including but not limited to):
• Deliver daily high quality informal and formal engagement programming
• Develop strong historical knowledge of site and wider area
• Be responsible and proactive. Ensuring all day-to-day tasks are completed including record keeping and reporting figures, cleaning, and basic administration as required.
• To provide consistently excellent customer service when dealing with high volumes of customers
• Cash reconciliation duties including start and end of day tasks, must have experience handling cash accurately and processing sales
• Be able to take responsibility for your own development and learning.
• Have a flexible approach to working hours and days including working weekend and Bank Holidays as appropriate.
• To work across departments when necessary, supporting the wider Culloden cluster
• Adhering to the property’s quality standards including but not limited to the wearing of uniform.
• Ensuring health and welfare of property staff, volunteers, and visitors by adhering to the Trust’s Health, Safety and Environment policies and guidelines. This includes working within the property’s “Safe System of Work” (the system for managing Health & Safety).
• Promoting National Trust for Scotland brand to include our Membership scheme, events, upselling other properties and any promotional campaigns, being proactive in the selling of Membership and Gift Aid.
This role is one for which the duties, responsibilities or accountabilities of the role require you to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme, administered by Disclosure Scotland. This role involves regulated work with children / vulnerable adults.
Application Deadline: Sunday 13/04/2025