Apprentice Receptionist - Guest Experience Expert
Hanbury Manor Marriott Hotel & Country Club
Ware (SG12 0SD)
Closes in 30 days (Sunday 5 April 2026)
Posted on 2 March 2026
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Summary
A unique opportunity to join the team at the elegant Hanbury Manor Marriott Hotel & Country Club as an apprentice in the reception department. This is a wonderful opportunity to start your journey in the hospitality industry, where you will be taught to provide the best customer service, and help provide the perfect guest experience.
- Wage
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£26,436.80 a year
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Under 18s - £10 per hour. Over 18s - £12.71
- Training course
- Hospitality accommodation team member (level 2)
- Hours
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40 hours a week Variuos shifts TBC
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 20 April 2026
- Duration
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1 year
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
We are looking for an Apprentice Receptionist - Guest experience expert. The correct candidate will understand the importance of excellent customer service, and be willing to learn to provide an impeccable guest experience
Job Summary
Our jobs aren’t just about giving guests a smooth check-in and check-out. Instead, we want to build an experience that is memorable and unique. Our Guest Experience Experts take the initiative to deliver a wide range of services that guide guests through their entire stay.
They are empowered to move about their space and do what needs to be done. Whether processing operational needs, addressing guest requests, completing reports, or sharing the highlights of the local area, the Guest Experience Expert makes transactions feel like part of the experience.
No matter what position you are in, there are a few things that are critical to success – creating a safe workplace, following company policies and procedures, maintaining confidentiality, protecting company assets, upholding quality standards, and ensuring your uniform, personal appearance, and communications are professional. Doing all these things well (and other reasonable job duties as requested) is critical for Guest Experience Experts – to get it right for our guests and our business each and every time.
Key duties include:
- Process guest check-ins, assigning rooms and activating room keys.
- Co-ordinate with Housekeeping to track readiness of rooms for check-in and report any guest concerns.
- Answer, respond to and process all guest calls, messages, questions or concerns.
- Give guests information and directions regarding property and local areas of interest.
- Process check-outs and resolving any disputed charges.
- Process payments and room charges, as well as cashing guests’ personal and traveller’s cheques
- Confirm reservations and cancellations, running daily reports on the number of arrivals and departures.
The Impact you'll Make
First impressions are everything. And you’ll set the tone for every guest’s stay. With a genuinely warm welcome, you’ll be ready with answers to any questions and happy to offer information about hotel services, facilities, and the local area. Anything to help make their visit that bit more special. And, creating the smoothest check-out experience, you’ll make sure they leave us happy too.
The Full role description will be provided during the vetting process
Where you'll work
Hanbury Manor Marriott Hotel Country Club
Ware
SG12 0SD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
INSPIRO LEARNING LIMITED
Training course
Hospitality accommodation team member (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Asks questions to support and direct the guest journey, and responds to, redirects, or escalates guest requests, taking opportunities to signpost other services eg dining, bar.
- Identifies and acts on opportunities to increase sales and guest loyalty.
- Tailors communication to meet guest needs and build rapport.
- Delivers customer service to business standards, checks that guests are satisfied with products or service, and acts on feedback.
- Assists in the resolution of feedback, complaints, and issues.
- Handles room keys and guest property, including lost property, in line with business procedures
- Handles transactions and payments securely.
- Applies packages and allowances to guest purchases, explains packages, allowances, and processes to guests, and takes payments if required.
- Communicates within and between teams to ensure operational effectiveness and efficiency.
- Reports or records faults, issues or damage to e.g. equipment, rooms, and escalates guest feedback as appropriate.
- Follows steps of food service for relevant business e.g. set up, reset, touch points, sequence of service.
- Follows food safety and allergen legislation eg handling, labelling, and temperature monitoring.
- Prepares and serves alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages to business standards.
- Uses on site specialist equipment and technology relevant to business correctly and efficiently.
- Follows sequence for cleaning guest accommodation and public areas in line with business processes and standards for relevant business e.g. touch points, sequence of service.
- Selects and applies hygiene management techniques to maintain a safe, clean environment, including pest and virus control, following COSHH guidelines.
- Handles and disposes of waste safely.
- Manage stock across departments in line with local procedures relevant to own role.
- Complies with health and safety legislation, regulations, security and safety guidelines and procedures, including manual handling, fire safety, emergency evacuation, and lone working.
- Delivers to key performance indicators to support efficiency, performance and profitability within own area of responsibility.
- Uses feedback from managers and team to improve own performance and meet personal goals.
- Attends team briefings and implements instructions, offering input or feedback where relevant within team.
- Manages own time to ensure allocated tasks are completed.
- Reduces the waste of resources, taking sustainability into account, in line with business expectations.
- Follows equity, diversity and inclusion legislation and principles.
- Asks questions to support and direct the guest journey, and responds to, redirects, or escalates guest requests, taking opportunities to signpost other services eg dining, bar.
- Identifies and acts on opportunities to increase sales and guest loyalty.
- Tailors communication to meet guest needs and build rapport.
- Delivers customer service to business standards, checks that guests are satisfied with products or service, and acts on feedback.
- Assists in the resolution of feedback, complaints, and issues.
- Handles room keys and guest property, including lost property, in line with business procedures
- Handles transactions and payments securely.
- Applies packages and allowances to guest purchases, explains packages, allowances, and processes to guests, and takes payments if required.
- Communicates within and between teams to ensure operational effectiveness and efficiency.
- Reports or records faults, issues or damage to e.g. equipment, rooms, and escalates guest feedback as appropriate.
- Follows steps of food service for relevant business e.g. set up, reset, touch points, sequence of service.
- Follows food safety and allergen legislation eg handling, labelling, and temperature monitoring.
- Prepares and serves alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages to business standards.
- Uses on site specialist equipment and technology relevant to business correctly and efficiently.
- Follows sequence for cleaning guest accommodation and public areas in line with business processes and standards for relevant business e.g. touch points, sequence of service.
- Selects and applies hygiene management techniques to maintain a safe, clean environment, including pest and virus control, following COSHH guidelines.
- Handles and disposes of waste safely.
- Manage stock across departments in line with local procedures relevant to own role.
- Complies with health and safety legislation, regulations, security and safety guidelines and procedures, including manual handling, fire safety, emergency evacuation, and lone working.
- Delivers to key performance indicators to support efficiency, performance and profitability within own area of responsibility.
- Uses feedback from managers and team to improve own performance and meet personal goals.
- Attends team briefings and implements instructions, offering input or feedback where relevant within team.
- Manages own time to ensure allocated tasks are completed.
- Reduces the waste of resources, taking sustainability into account, in line with business expectations.
- Follows equity, diversity and inclusion legislation and principles.
Training schedule
The successful Apprentice will need to enrol on a Hospitality Apprenticeship qualification with Inspiro Learning, Marriott UK'S training provider and fulfil their study requirements alongside the job.
Inspiro delivers the assessment, mentoring and guidance required for the apprenticeship, which is carried out by an assessor within your workplace. This means that there is no need for you to spend time away from your job in a classroom or at college.
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Presentation skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this employer
With its fragrant walled gardens, stately Jacobean country house & 200 acres of Hertfordshire parkland, the historic Hanbury Manor Marriott Hotel & Country Club makes a lasting impression. Marriott International the world’s largest hotel company with more than 500 global locations and 600,000 associates worldwide is redefining the art of hosting so that our guests can travel brilliantly. Combining old school, classic elegance and impressive grandeur with a contemporary, holistic approach, Hanbury Manor Marriott delivers premium choices, sophisticated style, and well-crafted experiences for the discerning.
Company benefits
Many benefits provided on full description once you press apply and go through to Inspiro learning's website
After this apprenticeship
As the company is an international brand the candidate could develop through Marriott Hotels or around the world depending on the opportunities, skills and the candidate.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
INSPIRO LEARNING LIMITED
Mike Hand
michael.hand@inspirolearning.co.uk
01165040393
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000018527.
Apply now
Closes in 30 days (Sunday 5 April 2026)
After signing in, you’ll apply for this apprenticeship on the company's website.