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Assistant

Job details
Posting date: 23 September 2025
Salary: £12.21 per hour
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 23 October 2025
Location: Southwold, Suffolk
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Adnams Plc
Job type: Permanent
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Summary

Assistant - The Harbour

Situated right on the waters edge, The Harbour Inn, Southwold is a proper old Fishermans pub. Ollie and his team enjoy giving their customers a warm and welcoming experience in a buzzy atmosphere whilst always serving up great food and refreshing drinks.

We are looking for a Front of House Assistant that is enthusiastic and energetic who will deliver fabulous customer experiences every time creating memorable moments for our lovely customers during their visit with us.

We want each member of our team to grow, develop and progress within Adnams and we are committed to providing you with continual training and development to support you with your career goals and progression within The Harbour and wider business.

We offer an excellent package for our Front of House Assistants including -

Competitive Salary
Company Pension
Life Assurance
Share Incentive Plan
28 days holiday
Career Development Opportunities
Wellbeing Programmes
Fabulous employee discounts!
TIPS
What do you need to know about Adnams and our Team?

We make amazing award-winning beers and spirits from our home in Southwold, have some great shops across the region and operate some stunning pubs and hotels. We understand the value of every customer and work hard to deliver amazing service in a time of exciting innovation and digital transformation.

We do all of this while caring passionately about the environment, our local communities and our wider social responsibilities.

At Adnams we really care about diversity and are proud of our culture where everyone is respected, valued and treated with kindness.

What are we looking for?

The successful candidate will have a passion for hospitality and may have some previous pub, restaurant, or hotel experience but what is important is that you have a friendly manner and enjoy engaging with our guests.

You will be a hard-working team player that can use their own initiative and work well under pressure and enjoys working with people.

As part of our team you will happily meet and greet our customers with a smile, setting and cleaning tables and service areas, be confident taking orders and serving food and drinks whilst liaising with the kitchen teams to ensure a smooth service.

We will provide all the training you need to get you up to speed with how we like things done.

Flexibility is required in this role to cover a variety of shifts per week including bank holidays and weekends.

What's in it for you?

Hopefully, a sense of pride that you are working for a business that cares about the important stuff and a lot of fun working with an amazing bunch of people.

Enthusiastic and hard-working people who join Adnams tend to stay around so we must get quite a lot of things right. We really admire innovation and are not afraid to try something new, so you get to put new ideas into practice to deliver even better results for everyone.

Pay rates

21+ = £12.21 per hour

18 - 20's = £11.77 per hour

Under 18's = £9.77 per hour

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