Join the Team

We are hiring…

Luna Hut is coming to Worthing this December and we are looking for 4 part-time sauna hosts to join our growing team and spread the sauna love!

The role:

We are looking to recruit four local people on a part-time basis to help manage Luna Hut at Splashpoint, Worthing. These positions require availability for two days between Thursday and Sunday, weekend work is required.

A standard sauna working day is up to 6.5 hours and includes physical work with early starts in all weather, plus the sauna heat. Additionally, you have to work with the needs of many people - so it is not a role that is suited to everyone.

Conversely you will be working in an exciting and rapidly growing sector whilst meeting interesting people and helping them to commit to a wellbeing practice daily.

Key responsibilities:

• Lighting, setting up and maintaining the sauna at the beginning of the day (this can be very early 6.30am starts for morning shifts).

• Moving wood from outside bins to inside the sauna

• Carrying water for drinking dispensers and water bucket in sauna

• Maintaining the stove to ensure the sauna comes up to temperature efficiently, and is maintained throughout each session (we record temperature each hour)

• Welcoming pre-booked and walk-in customers to their sauna sessions and providing a short welcome (to include health and safety) for each session and dealing with any enquiries

• Being attentive to customer needs; making sure they are sticking to the sauna guidance, popping into the sauna to add steam if required, offering sauna hats

• Managing timings of individuals and groups; making sure people vacate in a timely manner and the space flows orderly

• Keeping the sauna area tidy (we record status each hour)

• Responding to messages from customers via phone and online who are running late, need directions or have another question

• Uploading Instagram stories from your shift promoting the sauna

• Answering questions from interested parties about what the sauna is and how they can book

• Cleaning and closing the sauna at the end of the day

Skills required:

• Based locally

• Able to work weekends, flexible hours and long days, including evenings in all weathers

• Ability to work independently

• Punctual, reliable, responsive

• Team player; easy and friendly to collaborate with

• Excellent communication skills and manner, good awareness of people’s needs

• Acute attention to detail, tidy and organised

• Physical ability work in a sauna (handle heat, carry wood & water, clean benches) 

• Comfortable managing a hot wood-burning stove and sauna environment

Desirable (but not essential):

• First aid and/or open water lifeguard qualifications

• Knowledge about the benefits of sauna use

Application deadline: Friday 22nd November. 

Interviews taking place: 27th November. 

Start date: From 12th December 2024

Location: Splashpoint, Worthing

Hours:  6.5 hour working day. Various shift patterns spanning across 6.30am starts and later shifts finishing at 9pm (with a structured lunch break).

Pay rate: £12.50/hour

How to apply: If you connect with what you have read in this job advert and you fit the requirements set out please send your CV to mgmt@lunahutsauna.co.uk with a cover note explaining what you feel you could bring to the role and what interests you about saunas

Who we are:

We are a wood-fired sauna based in Sussex, UK. We run affordable communal sauna sessions, where folks from all walks of life can enjoy the incredible physical and mental benefits of traditional Finnish sauna.  Our offerings are especially geared towards serving the local community.