Job Advertisement: Receptionist
Contract type: Permanent- 37 hours per week, term time only plus 5 inset days
Location: The Kingsway School, Gatley
Salary: Scale 2 Point 3-4 £24,027-£24,404 (Pro Rata £21,012- £21,341)
Closing date: Monday 30th June 2025 at Noon
Interview date: W/C 30th June 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Job Overview
Are you a welcoming, organised and professional individual with a passion for working in a busy educational environment?
The Kingsway School is seeking a friendly and efficient Receptionist to join our support team, working across our busy split-site secondary school working term time (plus 5 inset days). You will be the first point of contact for students, staff, parents, and visitors, providing a warm welcome and ensuring the smooth running of front-of-house operations, ensuring that all policies are maintained, and government guidelines are followed.
Key Duties will be varied but will include:
- Greet visitors, parents, students and contractors in a professional and approachable manner.
- Operate the school’s main telephone switchboard; handle and direct calls and messages appropriately.
- Manage the school’s visitor sign-in system, ensuring safeguarding procedures are followed at all times.
- Provide administrative support to school staff, including photocopying, post distribution, and data entry.
- Liaise with staff and site teams to coordinate deliveries, appointments, and meeting room bookings.
- Support the wider office and pastoral teams during busy periods.
- Travel between school sites may be occasionally required
- Any other administrative duties commensurate within band 2
The successful candidate will be organised and self-motivated, have a high level of accuracy and proficient IT skills. A background of working within a school will be advantageous along with the ability to build relationships with ease.
Requirements
- Proven experience in an administrative or receptionist role is preferred.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks effectively.
- Proficiency in computerised office applications, including Google Suite and SIMS
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong data entry skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
- A friendly disposition with a commitment to providing outstanding customer service.
For full details, please visit our website where you will find a complete job description along with the required application form.
Please return applications to: [email protected]
About ELT
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 450 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
● Exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
● School improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
● Opportunities for professional development and leadership
● A celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
● Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £24,027.00-£24,404.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Language:
- English (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 30/06/2025
Reference ID: R0406
Expected start date: 01/09/2025
