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  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    18 October 2024 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    7 October 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Administration, HR, data and finance
  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 37.5 Hours Term-Time Only

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

To be Agreed

What skills and experience we're looking for

Reception Officer (Maternity Cover)

We are looking to recruit a self-motivated, enthusiastic, and highly capable Reception Officer to join our friendly team providing a warm welcoming reception service to students, staff and visitors to our school.

This is a key role in the academy and we are seeking a person who has excellent customer service skills, is professional and approachable and embodies the academy values of hard work, integrity and excellence.

This a great opportunity for someone seeking a business support role in an education setting. The ideal candidate will have had some experience within an education setting however this is not necessary as full training will be provided.

Working as part of a small professional team, this is a role which offers a real opportunity to make an impact. In return, we offer excellent benefits and a supportive, friendly, and professional work environment.


This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and the post holder must be committed to safeguarding the welfare of children.

What the school offers its staff

Why choose us?

We are part of United Learning, a large, and growing group aiming to offer a life-changing education to children and young people across England.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.

We are part of United Learning, a large, and growing group aiming to offer a life-changing education to children and young people across England.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.

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.

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About Paddington Academy

School type
Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
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School size
1259 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Phone number
0207 479 3933

Paddington Academy ensures that every student is well-educated, has the opportunity to attend university, and is able to lead a happy and fulfilled life.

Paddington Academy shares the objective of bringing out 'the best in everyone', enabling each student to become a balanced, happy and articulate person with the intellectual freedom to be creative; confidence to initiate; flexibility to respond to challenge, change and adversity; compassion to serve others; spirit to enjoy life; integrity to be trustworthy; and motivation to have a lifelong love of learning.

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