Administration Assistant and Receptionist

Conisborough College, London, SE6 2SE

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  19 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,560.26 Annually (Actual)

Administration Assistant and Receptionist job summary

Administration Assistant and Receptionist

Location: Conisborough College, London SE6 2SE

Salary: United Learning Support Staff Payscale: Actual £31,650.26 (£35,763.00 FTE)

Contract type: Permanent

Job overview

We are seeking a dedicated and organised Administration Assistant and Receptionist to join our busy school office team. In this varied role, you will provide high-quality administrative support while managing the school’s reception area. You will play a key part in supporting staff and students by ensuring that all visitors have a great first impression of the school, maintaining records, and contributing to the smooth day-to-day running of the school.

Key Responsibilities

To act as first point of contact on behalf of the school for all visitors, parents, deliveries and contractors; ensuring meeting and greeting in a professional manner to ensure a great impression of the school, whilst ensuring the school’s safeguarding procedures are always followed

To deal professionally, promptly and efficiently with incoming telephone calls, directing callers to the right person, taking messages and using judgement to screen calls if necessary

To use tact and diplomacy when dealing with complex reception/visitor matters in sometimes difficult circumstances.

To be responsible for the smooth running and organisation of the reception area and all the associated duties and tasks, ensuring the reception desk, outer reception area and small meeting room are neat, and always ensuring information security and confidentiality

Accurately record messages/incidents ensuring all messages are conveyed to the right person, promptly

To take messages for staff and communicate them effectively and monitor the reception info email box and executing requests

To be able to Tannoy in a clear and concise manner, in emergencies

To open and distribute incoming mail and ensure the franking machine is topped up and all outgoing mail has the correct postage ready for collection each day by Royal Mail

Deal with any local incoming/outgoing mail/deliveries: ensuring large items are dealt with and removed from the reception area by the site team as soon as possible.

To maintain and print off fire registers daily and attach to clipboards ready for fire drills

To register the students who are late in the morning after 8.45am

As part of United Learning Trust, our staff are better rewarded: with good career opportunities, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff's wellbeing; it's our core ethos, we call ‘the best in everyone’. Central Office staff work closely with schools, offering a wealth of expertise to underpin our knowledge. The specialist departments, including HR, finance, technology, strategy and performance, estates, and marketing, work alongside dedicated school improvement teams. Everything that we do is geared towards improving life outcomes for young people. ‘We also believe in offering our staff 'more pay, more time and more support’.

Flexible Working:

At United Learning, we value the dedication, professionalism and hard work of our teachers, support staff and school leaders, and strongly believe that everyone should be able to do their job without sacrificing family life or compromising their well-being. We are committed to encouraging and enabling flexible working opportunities throughout our schools wherever possible and will support employees seeking to work more flexibly.

Rewards and benefits

Competitive salary

At least eight INSET days per year

A designated personal day each year for you to use as you wish

Enhanced contributory local government pension scheme

Enhanced occupational sick pay, protecting you and your family

Competitive and enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption benefits

Over 250 employee exclusive benefits through our partners Perkbox, including access to wellbeing resources, discounted cinema tickets, holidays and gym memberships, car leasing and Cycle2work schemes

Conisborough College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Any successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).

To Apply

Please apply online: https://www.conisboroughcollege.co.uk/ and visit the “Work with Us” page.

Or contact our recruitment team at:reception@conisboroughcollege.co.uk

Closing date: 17 July 2026

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Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Conisborough College

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 757 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Conisborough College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/conisborough-college-london

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