Travelodge Announces Recruitment Drive to Fill Over 300 Jobs Across the UK

Travelodge, the UK’s first budget hotel, has launched a recruitment drive to fill over 300 jobs across its business. The company operates over 600 hotels across the UK, Ireland and Spain, with 47,000 rooms, employing more than 13,000 people. Travelodge is committed to flexible, secure employment, reflected in its ‘Find where you Belong’ company initiative, which ensures inclusivity, support and flexibility for all its colleagues to be their true self at work and belong.

The jobs available cover a wide variety of positions across Travelodge which also includes jobs at the company’s newest hotels to open and newly created roles across the company. Roles include full time and part time Hotel Manager and Assistant Manager positions, Bar Café Team Members, Housekeeping Team Members, Reception Team Members and Hotel Supervisors. Roles at Travelodge’s head office in Thame, Oxfordshire include positions in Procurement, IT, Customer Services and Sales.

There has never been a better time than now to join one of the most dynamic and diverse sectors in the world – the UK hospitality sector. A sector that employs around three and a half million people and gives many young people their first experience of work. It is also an economic, social and cultural powerhouse, delivering opportunity, investment and social mobility across the UK as well as being one of the biggest revenue generators for the British economy.

In its latest Better Future report, Travelodge highlighted and committed to offering more employees 24+ hour contracts, providing its colleagues with greater security and predictability in working hours. This flexibility allows its team members to thrive, and is especially helpful to students and parents, offering parents to work around school run times and students the ability to transfer to a hotel closer to their hometown during the university holidays.

Travelodge is also a Disability Confident Committed employer, a Government-backed scheme which encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with health conditions.

To further support its colleagues, Travelodge’s Aspire programme allows colleagues to gain a nationally recognised qualification in hospitality funded through its apprenticeship levy. This comprehensive programme provides a clear pathway of development and career mapping for hotel and maintenance colleagues to progress from entry level roles through to Manager level. Aspire demonstrates Travelodge’s commitment to being a place where colleagues can get in and get on, irrespective of background, or educational attainment.

There has never been a better time than now to join Travelodge, one of the UK’s biggest hotel brands. Our colleagues are at the heart of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace with opportunities to learn more and earn more, where everyone can be their true self, and belong. We are currently looking to fill over 300 positions across the UK and we are looking for enthusiastic people that have a passion and determination to deliver excellent customer service

In addition to a strong network of hotels across the UK, we offer flexible working hours that can be a win-win solution for parents and students. We offer parents flexible working hours to help them work around the school run, so they can raise their family and have a job that allows them to develop a career when the time is right for them. Students can work in a Travelodge whilst studying at University and then transfer to a different hotel when they return home in the holidays. The opportunities at Travelodge are endless and can open a door to a great career in a fast growing global industry. Katharine Gourley, Travelodge, Director of People Operations

For further details on all positions at Travelodge and to apply, please visit: https://www.travelodge.co.uk/careers/

Travelodge offers a great range of employee benefits and these are available to new employees from their first day of employment. These benefits include:

• 50% off Travelodge’s UK hotels
• Room discounts for family and friends
• Work anniversary complimentary booking voucher
• Pension scheme
• Discounts at a range of retailers
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance
• Wellbeing Programme ‘Better Me’

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