To apply email: [email protected]

Join us for a new year in spring 2025!

We are looking for some bright sparks to join our small but perfectly formed team, starting in early March 2025.

Server 

A waiter or waitress will have a genuine love for food, drink and gracious service. Some previous experience in restaurants is an advantage, notably an understanding of the importance of team work and great communication, especially during the busy services. A familiarity with excellent ingredients, wine (especially ‘natural’ or low-intervention wines) and the skills of service are of course desirable. Coffee and cocktail skills and knowledge are of interest, but we can offer training in both too. A bar specialist role is a possibility.

Above all, what is essential is an open, friendly personality and a love of people and of hospitality itself. We can teach much of the rest and Inver is a great place to learn.

Salary: £13.5 – £14 per hour (plus tips on top)

General assistant 

We are also looking for a general assistant to help with housekeeping and/or restaurant and kitchen work. Our senior long-term housekeeper Jo takes great pride in looking after our six beautiful boutique cabins and loves the excitement our guests share when she delivers their breakfast picnic baskets and check out after a dreamy stay. We need cover for Jo’s days off (we are open 7 days in the summer months), and support for her and the front-of-house team during the working week. Experience is not essential, but some physical and mental energy and a willingness to learn fast are! For those who are interested, there may be occasional bar or restaurant shifts available too- potentially a good way to gain great restaurant experience and to learn a lot about fantastic food and drink. Some kitchen assistance is possible too.

Salary: £13 per hour (with tips on top)

Auxiliary Housekeeper (part time available)

We’re looking for a helper for the housekeeping team: someone to do the background organisation, sorting, polishing and cleaning. Our senior long-term housekeeper Jo takes great pride in looking after our six beautiful boutique cabins and loves the excitement our guests share when she delivers their breakfast picnic baskets and check out after a dreamy stay. Experience is not essential, but some physical and mental energy and a willingness to learn fast are!

These shifts start mid-morning and finish mid/late afternoon, so they may suit someone looking after school aged children. Weekly working hours can be flexible, from 6 -30 hours per week.

Salary: £13 per hour (with tips on top)

Restaurant and housekeeping staff will start around 14th March for a soft opening date of Thursday 20th March. We close again after evening service on Sunday 14th December, meaning you have Christmas and New Years’ off. Front-of-house working hours are typically 40-45 hours per week. You will always have at least two days off in a week.

About Inver 

Inver is a multi-award-winning craft restaurant with six boutique rooms. We opened in 2015 to instant critical acclaim and have been listed among the UK’s best restaurants ever since. Recently we were named Best Restaurant in Scotland and number 23 in the UK at the National Restaurant Awards. Chef-owner Pam Brunton has been the Good Food Guide’s Chef of the Year, and has been listed as one of Code Magazine’s Most Influential Women in Hospitality. We were one of the first restaurants in the UK (and still the only one in Scotland) to be awarded a Green Michelin Star. Pam’s book “Between Two Waters- Heritage, landscape and the modern cook” was released in September 2024. Described as “a call to arms- a manifesto on a better way to feed the world”, the book is already critically acclaimed. In short, we are a dynamic, progressive, creative and challenging place to work.

Most importantly, this year we were named one of CODE Magazine’s Happiest Places to Work in the UK.

Inver is located right on the shore of Loch Fyne on Scotland’s beautiful west coast. (The water is closer than some kitchens’ dry stores!) The quality of the produce we use is unparalleled; shellfish and mackerel are straight from the waters outside; two local gardeners produce herbs, flowers soft fruit and vegetables for us; wild game is shot on the surrounding estates and wild berries and herbs picked from the hedge- rows. Rare breed pork, lamb and Highland beef come from nearby farms. We make our own soft cheeses and yoghurt; kojis and misos; charcuterie and ferments.

Our craft skills ethos extends to the bar and restaurant, which makes its own tonic syrup, shrubs and bitters. There’s a short creative cocktail menu. Produce from the gardens and hedgerows informs the drinks menu. We brew innovative beers in collaboration with a nearby brewery, and previously staff have led on their production. The wine list is almost 100% from low-intervention production with a focus on small producers. Talented friends make the stoneware plates, weave the wool cushions, carve the wooden spoons, and design the pictures and prints. We have six luxury cabins providing sleeping accommodation for guests adjacent to the restaurant.

Most importantly we value our people as highly as the produce. In a response to a Countertalk Culture workplace review (which we undertook voluntarily), one member of staff stated: “For the first time in my working life, I feel like nothing needs improving. We’re valued, the philosophy is bang on, the pay is good, the people are nice, meals, snacks and heaps of support are available”.

What sort of people are we looking for? 

Inver is a personal project by owners Pam and Rob – we share the same rota with you daily. We are a small, close team and we recruit for whole people, not just job titles. We’ll give you what you need to flourish. In return we need some solid hospitality skills – exactly what, depends on what role you’re going for. We want people ready to contribute to a proper Team; to put the wellbeing of everyone else on a par with their own personal needs. Compassionate, self-motivated and creative individuals do well at Inver. It’s worth remembering that we are a restaurant: service is often fast-paced, and always requires juggling constantly competing deadlines and dealing with people with competing demands. Working days are energetic. If you thrive in this kind of environment, we can offer you so much more besides.

We are located 1.5 hours drive from the nearest city (Glasgow) so some appreciation for countryside activities and an ability to enjoy your own company are helpful! (That said we are good at entertaining each other too.) A car and driver’s license is useful but not essential.

Permission to work in the UK is essential.

There’s LOTS more info on our website, including about accommodation, pay and perks!

Really looking forward to hearing from you soon!

To apply email: [email protected]