Reception Admin
The Sydney Russell School, Dagenham, Essex, RM9 5QT10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 June 2026
Closing date
1 May 2026 at 1pm
Date listed
21 April 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
- £29,775.00 - £31,075.00 Annually (Actual)
Reception Admin job summary
POSITION: Receptionist/Administrative Support
SCALE: APT&C Scale 4 point 7-10 (£29,775-£31,075)
HOURS & PAY: 40 Hours per week term time but with agreed additional days in each holiday period of which you will receive additional pay.
Closing Date: Friday 1st May 2026
PURPOSE OF JOB:
To greet all visitors to Sydney Russell School
To deal with all incoming and outgoing calls for the school
Taking and passing on of messages
Liaising with all staff where necessary
To record students who are late (after 9.00 am)
MAIN ACTIVITIES:
To be front of house for all visitors to Sydney Russell School, to promote a highly professional and friendly welcoming environment.
Ensure all visitors are registered to be in the school and are given safeguarding information
To monitor all 6th form students, ensuring lanyards are worn.
To oversee the main school phone, dealing with all calls, incoming and outgoing
Once Student Marshalls have left reception, record all students who are late.
To work extra days in each holiday period to support with students arriving and exiting school site for intervention and support the caretakers with contractors arriving and exiting school site. These days will be agreed in advance of each holiday and depending on intervention arrangements will be limited to a set number of days. There will not be a requirement to work every day in each holiday period. You will be expected to work these holiday periods on a rota basis.
Work a 40 hour week, reception is covered from 7.30 am - 4.30 pm each day. Staff will be entitled to 1 hour break each day.
CHILD PROTECTION
To have due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and to follow the child protection procedures adopted by Sydney Russell School
All staff are responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of students by always ensuring compliance with the school’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. All staff must report any actual or potential risks to the safety or welfare of students to the Designated Safeguarding Lead. This document summarises the main responsibilities of the post.
REVIEW ARRANGEMENTS
The details contained in this job description reflect the content of the job at the date it was prepared. It should be remembered, however, that over time the nature of individual jobs will change, existing duties may no longer be required and other duties may be gained without changing the general nature of the duties or the level of the responsibility entailed. All staff are required to undertake whatever else may reasonably be requested by the Principal in support of the Aims of the School. Job Descriptions are subject to annual review.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
The above responsibilities are subject to the general duties and responsibilities contained in the written statement of conditions of employment (The contract). The post holder is required to support and encourage the school’s ethos and its objectives, policies and procedures as agreed by the governing body:
To uphold the school’s policy in respect of child protection matters
Will be subject to the National Agreement on Pay and Conditions of Service, supplemented by local conditions as appropriate and all relevant statutory and institutional requirements
The post holder may be required to perform any other reasonable tasks after consultation
This Job Description allocates duties and responsibilities but does not direct the particular amount of time to be spent on carrying them out and no part of it may be so constructed
This Job Description is not necessarily a comprehensive definition of the post. It may be subject to modification at any time after consultation with the post holder
All staff will be expected to participate in the school’s performance management scheme.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Sydney Russell School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 18
- Education phase
- All through school
- School size
- 2640 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Sydney Russell School website
School location
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