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Junior Butler (In-Room Dining Waiter/Waitress), Pre-Opening - The St. Regis London
Role summary
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The Junior Butler supports in-room dining and delivers a highly personalised St. Regis guest experience. Responsibilities typically include taking and serving orders, setting up dining trays or tables, explaining menus, maintaining presentation standards, responding to guest requests, processing payments, and coordinating with kitchen and front-of-house teams. Candidates should have strong hospitality or customer-service skills, a polished and professional manner, excellent communication, attention to detail, and the ability to remain calm in a luxury environment. Previous hotel, restaurant, room-service, or butler experience is helpful but may not be essential. Flexibility to work early mornings, evenings, weekends, and public holidays is expected.
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How it works
How it works: Hotel jobs cannot be sponsored since July 2025; only youth schemes remain.
Official source: GOV.UK: Skilled Worker visa. Checked November 2026.
What the job usually comes with in the UK
Usual for the UK, varies by employer. Checked November 2026.
| Housing | Live-in common in rural hotels |
|---|---|
| Meals | Staff meals common |
| Flights | No |
| Service charge | 100% of tips and service charges to staff (by law) |
| Contract | Permanent or seasonal |
| Leave | 28 days |
| Income tax | About 14% in all at GBP 25,000 |
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About The St. Regis London
The St. Regis London is a luxury hotel operated under the St. Regis Hotels & Resorts brand, part of Marriott International. St. Regis is known for refined service, elegant accommodation, personalised guest experiences, and its distinctive butler tradition. The London property forms part of Marriott’s premium and luxury portfolio and serves leisure travellers, business guests, and high-end events. Team members are expected to deliver discreet, attentive service while maintaining the brand’s standards for presentation, hospitality, and personalised care. As a pre-opening hotel, employees may also help establish operating procedures, service culture, and guest-experience standards before and after opening. Marriott International is one of the world’s largest hospitality companies, with a broad global portfolio of hotel brands and opportunities for training, internal mobility, and career development.