St Austell Brewery has launched a new flexible and inclusive careers scheme, Pub Flex, in a bid to attract new team members in its venues.
The scheme offers workers flexibility to boost their income by picking up a few shifts, or, for instance, work their hours around the school run.
There are no minimum number of weekly or monthly hours required to sign up to the Pub Flex app, where shifts will be posted regularly as soon as they become available.
There will be a variety of vacancies on offer, from front-of-house roles to supporting kitchen crews and housekeeping teams. All roles pay £9.50 per hour and are easy to sign up for in seconds.
Pub Flex members are offered benefits including a £25 gift card simply for signing up, which can be spent in St Austell Brewery’s pubs and brewery shops. There is also 10% off food and drink in all of the company’s managed sites.
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“We acknowledge that the way we all work has vastly changed in the last 50 years, and Covid only accelerated that change,” said Tamsyn Allington, St Austell’s people and communications director.
“Post-pandemic, it’s so important for hospitality businesses like us to offer balance, tangible benefits, and genuine flexibility, as well as career paths for those who want to progress in the industry.”
She added: “Young people coming into the hospitality sector continues to be essential, but there are so many other groups of people who would be great employees, such as retirees looking for a new challenge or a bit of extra income. We want to offer jobs for people of all ages and from all walks of life in our pubs.
“Once you experience hospitality, even in the toughest of times, it is an industry you passionately fall in love with. That’s what keeps people there — it’s the buzz, the energy, the incredible diversity of customers and experiences you can have.
“Having the chance to introduce such a phenomenal industry to work in, at a pace to suits everybody, will hopefully slowly build towards hospitality being a more desired industry for people to enter into.”
