Christmas in Leicester & Trafalgar Square - Bar Staff


£13.15/hr (plus holiday pay)
4th November 2024 - 6th January 2025

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About Christmas with Underbelly

Underbelly is delighted to present Christmas in Leicester Square and Christmas in Trafalgar Square for another wonderful festive season.

Consisting of a beautiful Christmas market and a large Spiegeltent with the world-famous La Clique performing over the course of the season, this is bound to be another Underbelly Christmas spectacular.

Your role of Bar Staff will see you working under the instructions of the Bar Supervisors, the Bar Manager and the Underbelly Head of Bars. This role is a key member of the hospitality team and you will strive to provide the highest level of customer service to anybody that visits our Christmas site.

If you enjoy working as a team, thrive in a busy bar environment, have a penchant for Christmas and enjoy a diverse and unique working schedule we’d love to hear from you.


Role

  • Set up, stock and strike event spaces and bars.
  • Assist in preparing, serving and cleaning food and drink for event, maintaining consistence and quality, even when under pressure.
  • Demonstrate a good knowledge of products and understand key perfect serves.
  • Maintain an organised and clean stock room and back of house areas.
  • Prepare and store correctly garnish used for drinks.
  • Communicate effectively and work cooperatively with other bar staff and management.
  • Maintain good H&S/ HACCP practices as guided by senior management, including working environments, licensing and food handling.

Person Specification

  • Confident, enthusiastic, professional and self-motivated.
  • Good, clear verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work calmly and efficiently under pressure.
  • Ability to recognise potential health and safety issues before they arise.
  • Demonstrable knowledge of customer service principles.
  • Accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Excellent timekeeping skills.
  • Positive and flexible approach.
  • Ability to work effectively in a team whilst also being able to work independently.

Staff Benefits

  • Free entry to shows at Underbelly venues (subject to availability)
  • 25% discount at Underbelly bars

Equal Opportunities

Underbelly is committed to reducing its environmental impacts in its everyday operations. We are also committed to maintaining the open-access policy of Underbelly. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all sectors of the community.

It is the policy of Underbelly to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements that cannot be shown to be justifiable.

We expect employees to support these commitments and to assist in their realisation.


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Underbelly

Underbelly is a UK based live entertainment company. Its festivals and events division produces a number of events annually, including Underbelly at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Underbelly Festival in London.

Underbelly also produce Christmas in Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square in collaboration with Westminster City Council. 

In the West End, Underbelly is currently producing the Olivier award-winning version of Cabaret at The Kit Kat Klub.

Underbelly have recently launched their first permanent venue, Underbelly Boulevard, in the heart of Soho.