Guest Host - Seasonal Contract

  • Ref:
    105694
  • Location:
    Portsmouth
  • Employment:
    Part time
  • Closing Date:
    2 November 2026

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Bring the magic of Christmas to every guest visit at Gunwharf Quays! We are looking for enthusiastic, friendly, and customer-focused Guest Services Hosts to join our team during the festive season. As the first point of contact for our guests, you'll play a key role in creating memorable experiences by providing outstanding service, offering centre information, assisting with guest enquiries, and helping to ensure every visit is enjoyable and stress-free.

Do you enjoy meeting new people, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and take pride in delivering exceptional customer service? We'd love to hear from you. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain valuable experience as part of a supportive and energetic team during one of the busiest and most exciting times of the year. ✨🎄

 

Person Specification:

  • Polite and friendly demeanour
  • Works well within a team dynamic
  • Confident and outgoing in social settings
  • Flexible on weekends and evenings

Main Duties:

  • Maintain a positive, empathetic and professional attitude towards our guests, brand partners and colleagues.
  • Be confident in using radios to reach colleagues or centre personnel
  • Provide local information to support Tourism
  • Driving Guest feedback through the Share your thoughts platform
  • Know our centre so you can answer questions from all those working, visiting or living around Gunwharf Quays
  • Demonstrate cooperation, professionalism and team spirit within our Guest Services Team
  • Work with a positive demeanour and support others in the team when required
  • Be open to change and be flexible within your team where requirements are necessary
  • The role of Guest Services includes being inside and outside all times of the year, all weathers and rotate in/out with colleague

 

There is opportunity when the seasonal contract ends to extend into a permanent or reoccurring seasonal contract. Seasonal contracts range from 8-30 hour. Must be able to start within the first 2 weeks of November and be available throughout December.

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.

Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.

 

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Gunwharf Quays Shopping Centre - Portsmouth - Gunwharf Road
Gunwharf Quays Shopping Centre, Gunwharf Quays House, Gunwharf Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, CM77 8YH
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