Receptionist & Administrator

Lees Brook Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 4QX

Deadline is tomorrow

• Job start date

  2 June 2025

• Closing date

  25 April 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  10 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Term Time Only.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: From £24,790 to £25,584

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Provide an effective and efficient reception service to the Academy, acting as a first point of contact, welcoming visitors, staff, and students in a courteous, prompt, and professional manner
• Ensure the safety and security of the Academy, by managing the entry into the premises is appropriately controlled at all times
• Ensure that all visitors are signed in, checking identification and relevant information, issuing visitor badges and ensuring that the signing in and out process is followed.
• Respond and refer incoming communications, ensuring that messages are accurately relayed in a timely manner and referred appropriately
• Be responsible for maintaining and developing the reception area, ensuring it is well presented, to promote the activities and ethos of the Academy
• Maintain an environment which makes students / staff / visitors feels safe and enables them to report any concerns or complaints.
• Assist in maintaining the student record management, ensuring contents & databases are up-to-date and relevant.
• Assist with student welfare duties, liaising with parents / carers and staff, dealing with complex student matters and exploring where necessary to resolve any queries from student and or parents
• Work effectively as part of the core administration team providing support for a wide range of administration tasks as directed.
• Supporting with the debt management of staff / student lunch accounts.
• Manage lost property and confiscated items ensuring the correct procedure is followed to return items.
• Administrating student medication with oversight of the medicines stored within the office.
• Assisting with the uptake of free school meals by promoting and supporting families, maintaining databases and communicating changes where necessary.
• Manage all incoming and outgoing post and deliveries according to Academy procedures.
• Provide general administrative support e.g. photocopying, filing, compiling responses and respond to routine correspondence, with a good understanding of Microsoft 365.
• Provide first aid assistance to staff, students and visitors as and when necessary.
• Undertaking any other duties, which may reasonably be regarded as within the nature of the duties and responsibilities/grade of the post.

What the school offers its staff

•Archway benefits to include shopping discounts and competitions

•A free and confidential employee assistance programme offering counselling and advice

•*Access to Teachers’ Pensions / Generous pension scheme

•Access to discounted travel schemes

•Cycle to work scheme

•Comprehensive training and support

•Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career

•Eye care voucher scheme

•Free flu vaccine

•Access to e-learning and development

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to the satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check, Barred List check, the receipt of satisfactory references, online searches and any other statutory checks that are required for the post. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

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.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

LBA - Receptionist & Admin - Job Advert.pdf - 144 KB (opens in new tab)

Receptionist Administrator - Lees Brook.pdf - 797 KB (opens in new tab)

About Lees Brook Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1095 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lees Brook Academy website
• Email address: hr@archwaytrust.co.uk
• Phone number: 01332671723
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lees-brook-community-school-derby

Lees Brook Community School is committed to working with pupils and their parents to enable each youngster to achieve success in all areas of life – academic, personal, physical, social;Raising standards of achievement, increasing access and widening participation in PE and Sport for everyone in our school, partner schools, wider community and Derby City;Changing the culture for learning in our community by raising self-esteem, recognising achievement, promoting pride within the local area and providing pathways for talented performers;Building a community for learning in which everyone (pupils, parents, staff, governors, and the wider community) sees learning as a life-long process for them to engage in.

At Lees Brook, we believe how we learn is as important as what we learn and the kind of person we each become matters as much as what we achieve. Each of us is responsible for our actions and our behaviour; each one of us has a right to feel safe, secure and free from bullying in school; each one of us has a right to learn and achieve at the highest level we are capable of. The way in which we deal with other people matters, so we should always treat other people as we would wish to be treated and we learn from our mistakes as well as our successes.

Lees Brook is a school that cares for the people within it. We have a uniquely inclusive school which allows everyone to succeed. Our safe, successful and positive learning community ensures that every student is able to fulfil their potential; but more than that, to also become well rounded young people who will go on and thrive in the world of work.

Mrs Z House - Headteacher

Arranging a visit to Lees Brook Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@archwaytrust.co.uk.

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