Casual Front of House Assistant

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Organisation

Kirklees

Directorate

Public Health and Corporate Resources

Service Area

Culture & Visitor Economy

Hours

0

Number of Jobs

Numerous

Location(s)

Huddersfield and surrounding areas, Dewsbury and surrounding areas

Position type

Casual

Grade

Grade 1

Salary

Casual rate - £13.28 per hour

Enhancements / additional payments details

Enhancement for annual leave allowance

Advert Wording

We are looking for enthusiastic, energetic, and passionate Front of House Assistants to join our Town Halls Team.

You will have a passion for working with people and improving customers journeys.

It is a very exciting time for the venues services with plans to expand our offering across all of our Town Halls to continue to grow the business to support in delivering the councils outcomes.

Our team works across high profile Town Halls and several community centres across north and south Kirklees.

As the public face of the Town Halls our Front of House Assistants provide excellent customer care and experiences over a broad range of events, life celebrations, shows and conferences and ensure a welcoming, professional, and accessible service to all our visitors.

As well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills, a can-do attitude and the ability to think on their feet the key areas of responsibility for this role are:

• Proactive engagement with customers.
• Stewarding customers to seating.
• Assisting in emergency situations and working as part of team to ensure the safety of customers.
• Selling of refreshments and merchandise.
• Cash handling.
• Fielding customer queries.
• The opportunity to train on the box office to learn ticketing sales.
• The opportunity to train on reception.

Belinda Rickerby is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information. We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. So, if you need any supportcompleting an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email:jobs@kirklees.gov.ukor phone: 01484 221000 and ask for ‘Recruitment’. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We encourage you to read our AI Guidance before submitting your application to ensure your supporting statements reflect your own authentic experience.

Closing date

05 October 2026, 11:55 PM

Important Information

Job profile/description

Casual Front of House Assistant Job Profile.pdf – 241KB