Ready for the spotlight?
If you've led a team but not seen your hard work pay off with progression, you're at the wrong business.
We offer development programmes and apprenticeships to progress to every management level within ours.
These equip you with the skills and behaviours to progress into each level of management across our hotels and restaurants. You’ll complete these alongside your role, to ensure you have the opportunity to practically apply your learning as you develop.
See what Ollie had to say about taking the next step in his leadership journey.
Our Programmes
See what point you want to join us with the options below:
Progressing Into…
'Progressing Into…' is a fast-track development programme for our high performing Team Members wanting to take the next step in their career.
It's for driven First Line Managers such as Duty Managers, Kitchen Team Leaders or Head Housekeepers who hold aspirations to progress their career with us into Salaried Manager position.
Progressing Into Salaried Management is designed for candidates wanting to progress into a Assistant Hotel Manager, Kitchen Manager or Housekeeping Manager role where as Progressing Into Hotel Manager is for candidates wanting to progress to be a Hotel Manager.
The delegates attending the programme will be developed in both the technical and behavioural aspects of Salaried Manager or Hotel Manager position and will undergo continuous assessment throughout the programme and a Role Readiness Assessment before graduating the programme and being able to move into a Salaried/Hotel Management position.
Hospitality Supervisor Apprenticeship (Level 3)
The Level 3 Hospitality Supervisor Apprenticeship provides you with knowledge and skills to enable you to support your management teams, work independently and effectively supervise your team on shift. This Apprenticeship supports learners to work under pressure, deliver excellent customer service and gain a nationally recognised qualification.
Hospitality Management Apprenticeship (Level 4)
The Level 4 Hospitality Manager Apprenticeship is ideal for managers who are seeking to develop their business, people, and customer relationship skills. This nationally recognised qualification is designed for individuals who are highly motivated team leaders or supervisors that combine a talent for management and specific industry skills and thrive on the customer facing nature of the role.
Operations Manager Apprenticeship (Level 5)
The Operations Department Manager Apprenticeship Level 5 develops strategic and operational management skills. Aimed at salaried managers who wish to gain the Level 5 CMI qualification in Management & Leadership, the apprenticeship content will develop your knowledge and skills across nine contemporary topics of leadership and management within your work context.
'Progressing Into…' is a fast-track development programme for our high performing Team Members wanting to take the next step in their career.
It's for driven First Line Managers such as Duty Managers, Kitchen Team Leaders or Head Housekeepers who hold aspirations to progress their career with us into Salaried Manager position.
Progressing Into Salaried Management is designed for candidates wanting to progress into a Assistant Hotel Manager, Kitchen Manager or Housekeeping Manager role where as Progressing Into Hotel Manager is for candidates wanting to progress to be a Hotel Manager.
The delegates attending the programme will be developed in both the technical and behavioural aspects of Salaried Manager or Hotel Manager position and will undergo continuous assessment throughout the programme and a Role Readiness Assessment before graduating the programme and being able to move into a Salaried/Hotel Management position.
The Level 3 Hospitality Supervisor Apprenticeship provides you with knowledge and skills to enable you to support your management teams, work independently and effectively supervise your team on shift. This Apprenticeship supports learners to work under pressure, deliver excellent customer service and gain a nationally recognised qualification.
The Level 4 Hospitality Manager Apprenticeship is ideal for managers who are seeking to develop their business, people, and customer relationship skills. This nationally recognised qualification is designed for individuals who are highly motivated team leaders or supervisors that combine a talent for management and specific industry skills and thrive on the customer facing nature of the role.
The Operations Department Manager Apprenticeship Level 5 develops strategic and operational management skills. Aimed at salaried managers who wish to gain the Level 5 CMI qualification in Management & Leadership, the apprenticeship content will develop your knowledge and skills across nine contemporary topics of leadership and management within your work context.
What’s in it for you
The Whitbread Sharesave scheme gives you the opportunity to share in our success. You can save money through your pay to buy Whitbread shares with a very generous discount, become a Whitbread shareholder, sell your shares to make a profit or take your savings back at any time.
Discounts on gym memberships for over 3,000 gyms across the UK & discounts on health, sport and fitness products.
We celebrate our people and everything they do from 1 years’ service.
Management at Whitbread
Age is no limit to ambition here. We see the person, not the birth date. So if you're in a rush to get to the top, so are we!
Whilst on the programme, you will be developed in both the technical and behavioural aspects of the role you are aspiring towards. The programme will be made up of ‘on the job’ training, off-site and virtual workshops, as well as regular reviews with your Line Manager. The programme examines leadership styles and behaviours, commerciality, people management and management responsibilities.
Here’s Duty Manager Ella to tell you about her time on the course.
Progressing into First Management
"The Progressing Into First Management course is great, I am learning so much from guest relations to kitchen management, I am getting all the skills to become a Duty Manager. The best part is that there's a mixture of learning from online to face to face workshops."
Level 3 - Food & Beverage
"I am really enjoying my apprenticeship, it's helped me achieve a lot. Learning about how to manage shifts and really understand my Maths so much better. I would recommend it."
Level 4 - Hospitality Management
"I've completed two apprenticeships and now I am a Hotel Manager. I am so passionate about the opportunity an apprenticeship can provide I encourage my team to sign up."
Progressing into Site Management
“Without the support from my Regional Operations Manager I wouldn’t be where I am today. He saw something in me – that shy 17 year old Will – that others did not. He has guided me, nurtured me, and given me the freedom to lead, something I don’t think I would’ve got outside of Whitbread.”
