Weekend Visitor Experience Assistant
Can you make sure each of our visitors leaves with a smile on their face and stories to tell?
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Job Title: Weekend Visitor Experience Assistant
Salary: £13.73ph (inclusive of rolled up holiday pay)
Location: Milestones Museum and Basing House
Hours: Ad-hoc – Weekends and School Holidays
Type of Contract: Casual
Job Description: Casual Visitor Experience Assistant
Can you make sure each of our visitors leaves with a smile on their face and stories to tell?
As a Casual Visitor Experience Assistant (VEA) at Milestones Museum and Basing House, you’ll have the opportunity to work across a wide range of Front of House disciplines. Whether welcoming visitors, promoting our retail range in the gift shop, or serving in one of our catering outlets, you’ll be the main point of contact for our visitors throughout their time in our venues.
You’ll be responsible for upholding the highest front of house standards, consistently providing excellent customer service and ensuring our venues are presented in their best possible light. You’ll need to closely follow various instructions and procedures, to make sure tasks are carried out correctly and that our venues are safe spaces for our visitors to spend time in.
As a casual worker we’ll offer you shifts when we need additional staff. We’re currently looking for casual workers who can pick up shifts at the weekends and during school holidays.
A bit about you
You’ll have a strong drive to make the visitor experience at Milestones and Basing House the best it can be, appreciating the expectation placed on us to ensure every visitor has an excellent day out!
You’ll be a supportive team player, always willing to jump in and lend a hand, but also happy to work on your own initiative when necessary. You might even know a little about history yourself and be keen to pass your knowledge onto others in an engaging way. Oh... and you will enjoy dressing up!
What it’s like to work for us
At Hampshire Cultural Trust we have a vision to create inspirational culture experiences that enrich and transform lives. We manage and support 24 attractions across Hampshire and deliver county-wide outreach programmes that bring great culture to local communities. We also deliver a diverse range of wider social impact initiatives targeted at those who are most vulnerable or disadvantaged and who would not usually have access to arts and culture.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and a culture that actively values difference. We recognise people from different backgrounds and experiences bring valuable insights to the workplace and enhance the way we perform and work. Our levels of employee engagement are high and our organisational culture positive.
We will be running a dynamic recruitment process so we would encourage candidates to submit an application as soon as possible as we may be interviewing candidates before the closing date.
To apply please fill in the application form with an up-to-date CV. We do not require covering letters for this position however would be grateful to receive context to your application.
Closing date for applications: 6th July 2025
To find out more about us visit our website www.hampshireculture.org.uk and https://careers.hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk/
If you have any queries relating to the recruitment process, please call our enquiries line or email people@hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk
- Department
- Operations
- Role
- Visitor Experience (Front of House)
- Locations
- Milestones Museum and Basing House
- Hourly salary
- £13.73
- Employment type
- Contract
- Job Level:
- 4A
Our recruitment - what to expect
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Step 1 – Application
Check out who we are and find the role for you. Applying through our application form we'll find out about you and you an even add a fun flair to your application.
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Step 2 - Catch-up
Once we've got your application one of our team may reach out to find out more about you, your interest and to tell you about life at HCT. This is an informal catch-up.
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Step 3 - Interview and Assessment
Depending on the role you may have 1 or 2 stages of interviews. These will often include a task related to the role. We'll send a guidance pack prior to the interview to give you some hints, tips and to help prepare.
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Step 4 - Offer and Onboarding
Congratulations! We really think you could make your mark at HCT, so you'll receive your verbal offer and we'll start formally welcoming you.
Need to talk to us?
Use the live chat function to speak directly to the Hiring Manager or drop us a message at: recruitment@hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk.
Alternatively you can talk to us directly on: 01962 396678
Life at HCT
Not your traditional museum or art gallery
HCT is all about changing lives through culture and it is only through our staff and volunteers that we make that happen. We are selective on those who join us as we expect all of our teams and colleagues to uphold HCT’s values of being confident and creative in all circumstances. To strive for excellence with everything we do whilst taking responsibility and ownership for all aspects of our work as a trust in order to deliver amazing things through teamwork. All of this is underpinned by our keen strives to respect everyone’s individuality and uniqueness.
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