Find the Shoe that Fits: Hospitality Careers Offered at Parkdean

At Parkdean Resorts, we can offer you a hospitality 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.

Our parks have a broad appeal, with holiday experiences that are tailor-made for both families and couples. We need a big and energetic team to deliver memorable experiences to our guests.

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: employee perks & career progression

At Parkdean, we’re proud to offer an impressive range of benefits and perks to our fantastic teams. These include:

• Holiday discounts - where we offer a 50% discount on parks and attractions for all our employees - pretty neat huh?
• 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 valued team members
• Introduction bonus - up to £1000 is available for you and a friend you’ve introduced to a Parkdean role
• Partner perks - we’re in partnership with various local and national brands, bringing you an exciting range of discounts

Alongside these perks, we also care about career development and progression across all our teams as well as doing our bit for the planet. 

Holiday park jobs: From Lifeguards To Wait Staff

If you’re looking for a new challenge then Parkdean is guaranteed to have a role perfect for you. 

Read on for a deeper look into all our different teams and opportunities.

Park Positions

At Parkdean, our busy teams support many guests across our sites. Our park positions on offer cover a range of different areas. These include:

Accommodation jobs

One of the most important parts of our holiday packages is the accommodation we offer our guests. 

We’ve got accommodation management and supervision roles and the Parkdeaners in these are expert leaders who know a thing or two about maintaining accommodation services. These roles need people with super organisational and leadership skills, as well as a keen attention to detail.

In our accommodation department, there are also some cleaner and porter roles up for grabs to help maintain the high standards of our parks. 

Administration jobs

A key part of any park’s management is administration. You might just call administrators the unsung heroes of what they do.

This behind-the-scenes service helps us to deliver a range of exciting customer experiences whilst keeping all areas of our site up and running.

Whether it’s general administrator roles or administration manager positions, there’s a lot on offer. 

If you’re a pro with technical skills and computer proficiency, as well as accuracy when it comes to processing data, then look no further than an admin career at Parkdean.

Entertainment, leisure, and activities jobs

Our entertainment sector is one of the broadest categories of employment at Parkdean. Here, you’ll find guest-facing and support-orientated roles each with the goal of helping our guests make the most out of their time with us.

The types of roles on offer here are:

• Guest Experience Advisors
• Lifeguards
• Pool and Activities Assistant/Supervisor
• Activities Assistant

If you reckon you’ve got awesome customer service and communication skills as well as a can-do attitude, why not dive into entertainment jobs with Parkdean?

Food & Beverage jobs

In our parks, one of the things guests remember the most is their experience of our food and drinks. 

Our wide-ranging team includes lots of chefs, as well as bar and waiting staff, and we rely on their attention to detail and customer care skills to deliver an unbeatable experience. 

We also offer a lot of summer roles to get us through our busiest periods.

Our food and drinks team consists of a wide range of managers and supervisors, whose organisational and leadership skills keep our facilities running smoothly

Holiday Home Sales jobs

In addition to providing on-site holiday packages to our guests, we also sell a wide range of holiday homes and lodges. That means our sales guys have the key role of promoting our holiday homes and securing sales on a regular basis. It’s definitely a life-changing career path.

If you’ve got some hands-on sales experience you’ll fit right in here, although in-role training is also provided. 

Head Office

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

Finance & Accounts

At Parkdean, we rely on our genius finance and accounts team to manage the monetary side of things. Just think creating budgets and producing sales reports, that kind of stuff. 

Various roles include: 

• financial managers
• treasury roles
• Accounting positions. 

We look out for experienced and qualified financial whizzes who have strong technical skills and an eye for detail.

Jobs in Human Resources

We take staffing and training seriously at Parkdean, - we believe in the professional development of all our team members. Our human resources department is a key part of our infrastructure, consisting of talent officers, training leads and hiring managers. 

Applicants with strong organisational and communication skills will absolutely thrive in these roles.

Marketing and Communications jobs

Our marketing department is responsible for all things advertising and communications. These roles include managing our social media platforms and creating 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 Parkdean that covers all kinds of roles that keep our sites running smoothly. 

Roles range from customer support to revenue and financial management jobs. 

Apprenticeships

Alongside all the teams and roles we mentioned above, we also provide a wide range of apprenticeship programmes, designed to support the career development of our Parkdeaners. These programmes span the different sectors of our parks and really boost your skills.

Our apprenticeships appeal to a range of applicants, regardless of age or qualification. We’re ready to find the best role for you here!

Parkdean Vacancies: Step into a hospitality career Today

As you can see, there’s something for everyone at Parkdean.

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. And hey, did we mention the fantastic results and feedback in our recent employee engagement survey? Definitely check that out!

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