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Experienced Afternoon School Receptionist needed for an East London School with great transport connections
Monday – Friday (Term Time)
ASAP Start with permanent potential
£16.00ph PAYE
Full registration/compliance clearance and enhanced DBS required before you’ll be considered for short-listing.
Personal Requirements:
- Excellent punctuality and attendance record
- High level of professionalism
- Reception experience, ideally in an educational setting
- Ability to think on your feet and use initiative
- Strong administrative skills
- Excellent telephone manner
- Reliable and trustworthy
- Team player
- Quick learner
- Discreet
Post Responsibilities:
- Providing an efficient receptionist/switchboard service, interacting with all visitors both on the phone and in person, promptly and courteously
- Acting as the first point of contact for all visitors and ensuring relevant safeguarding documentation is collected and passed to the HR Manager
- Contributing to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare and personal care of children and young people
Reception and Switchboard Duties:
- Operating the switchboard, handling calls in a polite, friendly, and efficient manner, taking messages, and ensuring their onward transmission
Upholding safeguarding principles at all times by:
- Adhering to safeguarding procedures for visitors
- Checking that all visitors have the necessary safeguarding proofs and have completed the relevant forms
- Checking all visitors against the InVentry database
- Ensuring all visitors sign in using the InVentry system and wear a name badge
- Informing the HR Manager of any visitor without the necessary safeguarding proofs
- Issuing all visitors with the correct coloured lanyard
- Welcoming all visitors, staff, parents, and students in a polite and friendly manner
- Printing access control passes for staff and students as directed
Other General Administration Duties:
- Undertaking a variety of shared general administrative tasks as required
- Producing documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel databases
- Liaising with staff, students, visitors, and external agencies in a professional manner
- Undertaking first aid training and administering first aid to staff and students once qualified
- Evaluating and improving own practice, contributing to the day-to-day running of the institution, and taking responsibility for personal professional development
- Participating fully in the appraisal process
- Performing any other duties, including covering the essential work of absent colleagues, as directed by the Line Manager
- Committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, following the safeguarding policy
Apply now for the opportunity of being short-listed.
