We Guarantee you a Job and Accommodation!
If you choose the Ultimate Package we will place you into a job in the UK, which includes meals and accommodation, before you leave Canada.
We will save you money!
By coming on our programs, you will find work fast and get the support you need to settle in easily and on a tight budget. We will help you find ways to cut costs and start bringing home a pay cheque sooner than if you were to go on your own or with any other work and travel company. You will come out ahead financially and socially if you spend a little now to set yourself up right for your trip. When you land, you will be spending Canadian Dollars until you start earning Great British Pounds. Trust us, the Canadian Dollar does not hold a chance to the Great British Pound and will not go far in the UK. If you opt for the Pre-Arrival Job Placement option (aka. Ultimate Package), you will start earning money as soon as you arrive! If you chose the Essential package, we will give you incredible support, advice and leads to get you working and earning Great British Pounds quickly.
You have two years to explore the four countries that make up the UK – England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. With so much to see and do, why not work your way around the UK?
2 Great Work & Travel Options to choose from:
Work & Travel UK Essential Package
Find a job with the assistance of staff members and choose what you want to do!
Jobs Available
Retail Sales Travel Housekeeping Hotels & Hospitality Guest Services Maintenance Food & Beverage Administration Location
London for orientation. Jobs available throughout the UK.
Program Start Date
Your flight should arrive to London, UK on any Friday, Saturday or Sunday so that you can go to an Orientation Session the following Monday.
Orientation Day
Monday
Work & Travel UK Ultimate Package
We arrange a full-time, live-in job for you BEFORE you leave Canada in the Hospitality or Catering Industry. Places of work: hotels, pubs, restaurants, holiday villages, parks, and theme parks. Types of jobs: food server, hostess, bar tender, cleaner, cook/chef.
Jobs Available
If you have culinary education and/or over 6 months of work experience, you can be placed as a COOK or CHEF.
- Kitchen Assistant
- Prep Cook, Line Cook
- Commis chef
- Chef
Location
The majority of placements are in rural areas of the UK, including Scotland, Wales, Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, and Northern Ireland. You may be far from a city/town and in the middle of the countryside. You can request to be placed in a large city or a busy holiday resort, but your request cannot be guaranteed. You are not able to choose your destination.
Program Start Date
Please register 8 weeks in advance of your program start date so that a placement can be arranged for you.
Orientation
Your host employer will give you a personal orientation upon arrival.
Receptionists
Receptionists are generally the first person that guests see upon arrival or talk to when they call to make a booking. Students training as receptionists have the all-important task of making people feel welcome, providing an efficient service and dealing professionally with inquiries, either face to face or over the phone, fax or email. Duties include welcoming guests on arrival, allocating them a room, taking and passing on messages and helping guests with any special requests. A hotel receptionist needs to be welcoming, friendly, helpful, efficient, professional, well-organized and able to handle several tasks at once.
Waiting staff
The position includes serving food and drink to diners. Duties may vary depending on the establishment, but always include taking orders, serving food and drink, cleaning the restaurant and bar area before and after the service. Making customers feel welcome and at ease is an essential part of the job. To do this students should have a welcoming, friendly attitude, a good memory and, most importantly, a high standard of personal hygiene. They also need excellent communication skills and basic mathematical skills for calculating bills where necessary.
Commis Waiters are in charge of bringing trays of plates from the kitchen to the restaurant, where the waiting staff will serve the customers.
House-keepers
The position includes keeping all the rooms clean, tidy and welcoming. Cleaning guests' bathrooms and bedrooms, keeping the rooms equipped with items such as soap and tea and coffee, cleaning and preparing public rooms like the lounge and restaurant, changing bed linen, vacuuming floors, washing glasses and cups, cleaning the public toilets.
Bar staff
The positions includes training in the bar or restaurant area, serving customers with alcoholic and soft drinks and cash handling. Bar staff usually serve snacks and may serve hot and cold food to customers. They also need to keep the bar clean and well stocked, wash glasses, empty ashtrays, store empty bottles, clear and clean tables regularly. Students should be able to provide a welcoming, friendly atmosphere, be good communicators, outgoing, smart and tidy.
Kitchen staff
Various positions available: chefs, commis chefs, kitchen assistants, kitchen porters. Positions include various tasks from keeping everything clean, making sure the equipment and utensils are always tidy and in their place, helping with basic or elaborate food preparation, washing pots. Also taking food and drinks deliveries, keeping the storerooms well-organized, keeping equipment (fridges, ovens, work surfaces and floors) clean and hygienic, washing up or stacking the dishwasher. Kitchens can be very busy and noisy at times so students you need to be very organized and flexible.
Laundry assistants
Laundry assistants train in the in-house laundry. The position involves: receiving articles and checking for damage or stains and labeling them; sorting items by colour, size, fabric type and appropriate cleaning process; checking items against customers' lists; cleaning/washing with water and spotting chemicals to remove stains before processing; finishing by drying, pressing, steam finishing and folding; packing and hanging ready for collection.
Porters
Positions involve greeting incoming guests and escorting them to their rooms, receiving and marking baggage by completing and attaching claim checks, transferring luggage to and from rooms, loading areas, vehicles, or transportation terminals, by hand or using baggage carts, delivering messages and room service orders, and run errands for guests, maintain common areas clean, pick up and return items for laundry and valet service. Preparing conference rooms and breakfast rooms.
General assistants
The position involves a mixture of all the above. You will be required to train in different departments according to the establishment needs, be flexible and keen to take on new tasks and being trained in new areas.
Shop Assistants
Positions available in shops in big hotels, Holiday Parks, Holiday Villages and Theme Parks. The position involves welcoming customers and helping them in choosing items, answering inquiries about prices, keeping the shop area clean and tidy, arranging and organizing shelves and storeroom, checking stock, helping with deliveries and packaging, answering telephone inquiries, handling money & using the till. You will need to be helpful, dress smart-casual unless a uniform is provided and observe a high standard of hygiene if handling food is involved.
Ticket Sales
Positions available in Theme Parks. Ticket sales staff sells rides and show tickets and offer information to the customers at various points around the park, including coach parties and group bookings. You should have good communication and interpersonal skills because customers will ask many questions including prices, opening times, directions and special requirements.
Rides Operators
Positions available in Theme Parks. Rider Operators assist customers onto the rides, take tickets, and operate the ride itself. You should have good communication and interpersonal skills and also be careful and focused. The establishment normally provides a uniform or a t-shirt and a Safety Manual will have to be read and understood in case of an emergency.
Security Officers
Positions available in Theme Parks. The position involve monitoring the park and making sure everything is always safe and under control for the customers. You pro-actively patrol the park, deal with any security related matters and will be trained to deal with any emergency incidents that might occur on the site. You will be trained in fire procedures for all venues/attractions.