Area Bar Trainer

Start an exciting new chapter in your hospitality career at Hickory's Smokehouse - We are thrilled to have been recently crowned the ‘Best Pub Employer’ for 2025 at The Publican Awards! 

Hickory’s Smokehouse are looking to recruit an Area Bar Trainer to join our award-winning training team!  

Are you currently an experienced trainer who is bursting with passion, ambition and ready for your next big challenge? 

Are you driven by developing others? Are you a person that can lead and inspire? As an area bar trainer, you will be responsible for coaching and developing a team of in-store trainers, as well as motivating and educating our bar teams. 

Your role will embrace our ‘Southern Hospitality’ mindset through leading team trips and help us bring our authentic southern style hospitality to the UK. If you hold the qualities to develop others and deliver personalised top-class service, then you might have the spark we are looking for! 

Essential requirements of a successful Hickory’s Area Bar Trainer:

• Previous training or coaching experience in a similar role or supervisor role within a fast­-paced or high-volume restaurant environment.
• Are you a currently a management trainer in your current role, but have a passion for bartending?
• Love to pass on your knowledge to all team and guests.
• Ability to motivate, coach, train and develop your team to the Hickory's standard.
• Passionate about delivering an amazing guest experience and pushing team to reach their full potential.
• Have a welcoming, empathetic, and infectious personality.
• The drive to find grey areas, think outside the box and never give up on any team member!
• The ability to evaluate our processes and come with new ideas.
• Open and honest communication skills, experience of or the ability to give feedback.
• Can set and maintain the highest standards. 

As our Area Bar Trainer you will join us on a full time, permanent basis and you will receive a competitive salary based on experience and potential.

Benefits of joining being our Area Bar Trainer:

• Competitive pay
• 25% discount for you and 5 friends at all of our restaurants (including Barlounge & Upstairs at the Grill in Chester). This will increase to 50% discount for loyal service
• Be a part of the No.1 business in the "Top 100 Best Companies to work for in the UK 2022"
• Birthday reward - A meal on us for you and your friends every year
• Superb training & progression opportunities with The Hickory’s Academy
• Qualification opportunities whilst working (Up to A Level and Degree level equivalent)
• FREE BBQ / Team food and authentic sodas while on shift
• Christmas Day off work every year
• Paid occasion days off (Wedding Day, Kid’s first day at school, Moving into your first house and more!)
• The Red Zone – Our pledge to work life balance.
• Enhanced paternity and maternity pay
• Up to £500 refer a friend scheme
• Chance to ‘give a bit back’ by joining our fundraising activities for Cash for Kids
• 24-hour access to our wellness programme
• Stacks of enrichment opportunities including the possibility of once-in-a-lifetime trips to the Deep South!
• Amazing team parties
• Company Pension Scheme
• Bike to Work Scheme

So, if you wish to become a part of our Area Bar Trainer then please click ‘apply’ now!