Travelodge, the UK’s first budget hotel chain today celebrates the start of National Bed Month by kick starting its national search to fill 4,000 housekeeping roles throughout 2020.
Travelodge’s housekeeping teams are regarded as the ‘Heroes’ of the company. Collectively the company’s housekeeping team spend over 1 million hours making nearly 14 million beds a year.
The housekeeping jobs will be available throughout the year across the company’s current 573 UK Travelodge hotels and in new hotels as they open throughout 2020. The vast majority of roles are permanent with flexible working hours designed around the school run. Around 1,000 positons are just for this summer season and 150 jobs need to be filled immediately.
Roles include: Housekeeping Supervisor and Housekeeping Team Member positions. Further information and application forms for these roles can be found at: www.travelodge.co.uk/careers.
Travelodge is looking for passionate individuals who have a desire to deliver great customer service and enjoy being part of a team. The company will teach and coach individuals all the skills they need to work in their housekeeping teams and will also provide a buddy to help new team members.
All Travelodge housekeeping jobs offer guaranteed hours and comprehensive benefits including 50% discounts on hotel stays – great for those family staycations! New colleagues will also be eligible to join the company’s in-house management programme called ‘Aspire’ which offers comprehensive training on hotel management. This can help new entry-level team members get into a management role at Travelodge within a year of joining the company, offering significant salary and development progression.
Rebecca Baker, Travelodge, Director of Talent & People Proposition said: “National Bed Month is a great opportunity to celebrate Travelodge’s Heroes, our housekeeping colleagues who collectively make around 14 million beds a year. That’s no easy task so we are looking for reinforcement and kick starting our Housekeeping Heroes search today to help 4,000 positions throughout the year.”
“We have made it our mission to help unemployed parents return to work in the hospitality sector and working in housekeeping is a great route in. At Travelodge we have a strong established workforce of working parents, offering jobs close to home, flexible hours that can work around the school run, benefits that suit families and a career path into management specifically for mums and dads.”
Travelodge is dedicated to helping unemployed parents return to work and working in the housekeeping team is the perfect option for mums and dads as the hours are flexible and designed around the school run. Therefore parents can work, raise their family and climb the career ladder at Travelodge. On average a parent working 25 hours can earn annually around £11,336 and have the opportunity to climb the career ladder into a management position and double their salary within a year of joining the company.
Travelodge has many hotel managers who started with the company in a housekeeping role and have successfully climbed the career ladder.
Detailed below is an outline of Travelodge’s five step path to help parents back to work:
1. Careers advice on its website to help mums and dads return to work
2. Flexible working hours to suit family life
3. Full range of company benefits including 50% discount on hotel stays and food
4. Comprehensive training and a work buddy to help get up to speed
5. Opportunity to join the Travelodge Aspire management programme
During national bed month, Travelodge is also launching a new housekeeping rewards programme – celebrating the company’s highest achieving housekeeping heroes and teams. Every quarter the company will recognise its housekeeping heroes and these individuals will then be put forward to compete for the annual Travelodge Housekeeping Hero Award.
Detailed below are the key benefits Travelodge housekeeping team will receive:
· 50% discount on rooms plus food & drink in the hotel Bar Cafe
· Discounts for friends and family with thousands of rooms at £14.99
· £50 Travelodge voucher on each work anniversary
· Discounts off many high street retailers and mobile phone services
· The opportunity to join the Travelodge management training programme – called Aspire after three months – therefore you have the opportunity to climb the career ladder into a management position with 12 months of joining the company
· Pension scheme totalling 8% (employer contribution 3%)
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For further information, please contact:
Travelodge Press Office
01844 358 703
pressoffice@travelodge.co.uk