To apply email: [email protected]

A Restaurant Manager at Inver is a role as broad as it is essential!  For this role, you will have demonstrable relevant experience in similar-sized business that broadly shares our ethos and style. You will run the day-to-day of a busy craft restaurant, with its six rooms. A Restaurant Manager will undertake admin like rotas, orders, and cleaning and work schedules. You’ll be responsible for the systematisation of the restaurant routines. A genuine love of food, drink and gracious service is of course essential! You’ll also be responsible for presenting wines and serving food, and helping to train other staff in the finer details of great service. Some knowledge of wine is essential, particularly an understanding of ‘natural’, low-intervention wine and its production. Demonstrable knowledge of craft beer, coffee, tea and cocktails is also important. An open, friendly manner and ability to communicate with and motivate a diverse range of individuals is going to be a serious advantage. Mental health first-aider training with Kelly’s Cause is available to enable you to develop the emotional support skills needed for this essential role.

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 rock-solid hospitality skills. From our senior managers especially, we need people who share our values: community, compassion, craft, and climate. We want people ready to contribute to – and lead- 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 hours, pay and perks, and details of the other roles available for next year too. Start date is end of February/early March 2025.

There isn’t a closing date for applications: we’ll commit when we have found the right people. However we do close for Christmas (and this year’s winter break) from Sunday 15th December, and we would expect that a prospective restaurant manager may want to visit us while the restaurant is open.

Look forward to hearing from you soon!

To apply email: [email protected]