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Find the Shoe that Fits: The Roles Offered at Parkdean Jobs

Posting date: 20/07/2023

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At Parkdean Resorts, we can offer you a career with a difference. Our holiday parks are located in some of the UK’s most stunning areas of natural beauty, where our nationwide presence spans from Cornwall to Scotland.

You may already know us as a leading provider of family holidays and resort experiences, where we offer a wide selection of touring and camping vacations, in addition to selling a range of affordable holiday homes, lodges and caravans.

Our parks have a broad appeal, where we provide holiday experiences that are tailor made for both families and couples, with an array of adventurous and relaxing activities on offer. As such, we need a big and energetic team to deliver this range of services to our guests, where you could have the skills we’re looking for to continue Park Dean’s rewarding and fun-filled work.

If we’ve grabbed your attention, then read on to learn more about the wide range of roles we have on offer at Parkdean.

Choosing Parkdean: Perks & Career Progression

At Parkdean Resorts, we’re proud to offer a comprehensive range of benefits and perks to our valued members of staff. These include:

  • Holiday discounts - where we offer a 50% discount on parks and attractions for all our employees

  • Friends & family discounts - we offer 25% off for up to 5 friends or family members of your choosing

  • Employee assistance programme - a confidential wellbeing and support service for all employees

  • Introduction bonus - up to £1000 is available for you and a friend you’ve introduced to a Park Dean role

  • Partner perks - we’re in partnership with various local and national brands, bringing you an exciting range of discounts

In addition to these perks, we also prioritise career development and progression across all our different departments. We deliver this through a number of different programmes, including our Mastering Business Leadership programme, our apprenticeships college and our Kitchen Academy.

Park Positions: From Lifeguards To Wait Staff

If you’re looking for a new challenge at an exciting establishment, then Park Dean is guaranteed to have a role for you. Read on for a comprehensive insight into all our current vacancies, which include park positions and head office roles.

Park Positions

At Parkdean, our busy teams support a wide number of guests across our many sites, where our park positions on offer cover a range of different sectors and industries. These include:

Accommodation

One of the most important parts of our holiday packages is the accommodation we offer our guests. This includes our caravans, campsites and holiday lodges, where our accommodation team deliver an essential customer service experience on a daily basis.

We offer accommodation management and supervision roles, which require our staff to lead the team responsible for maintaining and delivering our accommodation services. These roles demand key organisational and leadership skills, as well as a keen attention to detail.

In our accommodation department, we also offer numerous cleaner and porter roles, to help maintain the high standards of our parks. These roles require dedication to quality and precision, as well as an enthusiasm about delivering an unbeatable standard of cleanliness.

Administration

A key part of park management is administration, where this behind the scenes service helps us to deliver a range of exciting customer based services whilst keeping all areas of our site up and running.

Common jobs we have available include general administrator roles as well as administration manager positions, depending on your experience. These positions demand some technical skills and computer proficiency, as well as accuracy when it comes to processing data and customer details.

Entertainment

Our entertainment sector is one of the broadest categories of employment at Park Dean. This department consists of guest-facing roles as well as more support-orientated positions, where the aim of all of these jobs is to help our customers to enjoy their holiday experience as much as possible.

These roles include guest experience advisors, assistants and coordinators, where this team is responsible for managing and delivering all our entertainment packages. We also rely on a large team of lifeguards and pool staff, who ensure all our guests are able to experience our water-based facilities safely.

Our entertainment team necessarily requires excellent customer service skills and communication abilities, as well as a positive attitude towards delivering a top guest experience on a regular basis.

Food & Beverages

At our holiday parks, one of the things guests remember the most is their experience of our food and beverage facilities. This means that we always aim for the highest standards in our restaurants, bars and cafes.

Our wide-ranging team includes lots of chefs, as well as bar and waiting staff, where we rely on their attention to detail and customer care skills to deliver an unbeatable experience for our guests. We also employ lots of summer bar staff and temporary waiters to get us through our busiest seasons.

In addition to this, the food and drinks team consists of a wide range of managers and supervisors, whose organisational and leadership skills help to keep all our facilities on track.

Holiday Home Sales

In addition to providing on site holiday packages to our guests, we also sell a wide range of holiday homes and lodges. As such our sales advisors and assistants have the key role of promoting our holiday homes and securing sales on a regular basis.

To join this team, it is useful to have some hands-on sales experience, although in-role training is typically provided. We choose a sales team that is friendly, communicative and engaging to best represent the great properties we have on offer.

Head Office

Our holiday packages are expertly delivered on a daily basis by our parks teams, where their work is supported by key roles in our head office. These are also incredible versatile and rewarding, where our different departments include:

Finance & Accounts

At Park Dean, we rely on our finance and accounts team to manage the monetary side of our business. This includes creating budgets and producing sales reports. Various roles include financial managers, treasury roles and accounting positions. We look for experienced and qualified financial experts for these positions, with strong technical skills and an eye for detail.

Human Resources

We take staffing and training seriously at Park Dean, where we believe in the professional development of all our team members. As such our human resources department is a key part of our infrastructure, consisting of talent officers, training leads and hiring managers. We look for applicants with strong organisational and communication skills for these essential roles.

Marketing & Communications

Our marketing department is responsible for all aspects of Park Dean’s advertising and communications campaigns, designed to attract and retain guests across our sites. These roles include the management of our social media platforms and the creation of our promotional material. We look for creative and experienced individuals for these roles, with a flair for digital communication.

Operations

This is a wide ranging department within Park Dean that covers all kinds of essential roles designed to keep our sites running smoothly. Roles range from customer support positions to revenue and financial management jobs. Like all our vacancies, we choose candidates based on their experience and enthusiasm for the work we do here at Park Dean, where our operational teams are recognised for their organisational capabilities and technical prowess.

Apprenticeships

Alongside these employment opportunities, we also provide a wide range of apprenticeship programmes, designed to support the career development of our employees. These programmes span the different sectors of our parks, and are designed to bolster applicant knowledge, skills and experience.

Our apprenticeships are designed to appeal to a range of applicants, regardless of age or qualification level, where we’re ready to find the best role for you at Park Dean.

Parkdean Vacancies: Find Your Dream Job Today

At Parkdean Resorts, we have a wide range of employment opportunities available nationwide, designed to appeal to many different interests and skill sets. Whether you want to work as a parks lifeguard or for our accounting team, there’s a spot for you at one of our sites. Contact us now to find out more about jobs at Parkdean Resorts, or sign up for job alerts today and be the first to hear about our upcoming vacancies.


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