Title: Stone Circle Experience Host
Location: Stonehenge, Amesbury, Wiltshire, SP4 7DE
Salary: From £12.22 per hour depending on experience / Variable part-time hours available consisting of early morning and evening work / Permanent Contract
*All salaries will increase following the NLW rise on 1st April 2025 to a minimum of £12.21 per hour*
Job type: Permanent
Ref: 15711
We are looking for 6 Stone Circle Experience Hosts to join our team. The role is part time and permanent with varying shift patterns available across the year for each of the 6 roles. You will deliver tours at either end of our opening hours, either early morning access, ranging from 05.15am - 09:00am in the summer, or evening access tours, ranging from 6:15pm - 9pm in the summer. Due to daylight hours and periods of rest for the grass, tours are variable across the year so your working hours will change dramatically from winter to summer.
The Benefits:
1. Salary from £12.22 per hour, depending on skills and experience
2. 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, pro rata, rising to 28 days after 3 years
3. Matched pension contributions up to 10%
4. Flexible hours
5. The opportunity to progress your career within the heritage sector
6. Subscriptions to professional bodies
7. Free access to all English Heritage sites for you and up to six friends and family members
8. 25% discount in our shops and cafes
9. Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave
10. Options to buy additional leave
11. An inclusive working atmosphere
12. Opportunities to attend live music and history events
As a Stone Circle Experience Host, you will join an amazing team of employees and volunteers, ensuring visitors have a great time from the moment they arrive until they say goodbye. You will be responsible for providing a world-class VIP experience to our guests, facilitating a safe and well-organized visit into our iconic stone circle, and ensuring that they have a special, memorable experience.
You will be responsible for meeting and greeting visitors, checking their bookings, and addressing any additional needs or requests. Across a one-hour tour, you and your colleague will guide a group of 25, pointing out relevant historical features in the surrounding landscape while managing the safety of your tours and adapting to weather conditions.
To be considered as a Stone Circle Experience Host, you'll need:
1. Outstanding levels of customer care and visitor experience
2. Ability to engage and captivate a large and diverse group
3. Awareness of Health & Safety principles
4. Ability to use initiative to overcome practical issues
5. A passion for heritage, its conservation, protection, and engagement with communities
If you would like to talk to us about workplace adjustments or working patterns, please contact Julia Richardson, Operations Manager, at julia.richardson@english-heritage.org.uk. No agencies please.
Interviews will take place from the 14th February onwards with a view that the role will commence mid-March.
Everybody's welcome at English Heritage
We are committed to making sure that English Heritage is an equitable, diverse, and inclusive place to work.
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