Receptionist Administrator

Courtlands School, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5JS

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBC

• Closing date

  1 August 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  16 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,717.98 Annually (Actual)

Receptionist Administrator job summary

Dear prospective candidate,

Thank you for taking the time to look at our Receptionist Administrator position at Courtlands School.

We are looking to recruit an outstanding Receptionist Administrator to join the team to support the current administration team. We are looking for people with a real passion for working in an environment with complex but rewarding children in a supportive and compassionate environment. You will complement the work of the administration team and be the face of the school responding to all visitors in an outstanding manner, whilst managing a busy reception desk alongside administrative duties

Main purpose

The Receptionist Administrator is the face of the school and as such we are looking to appoint an individual with outstanding customer service skills, unreserved flexibility and positivity.

The candidate will be responsible for supporting the administrative, financial and organisational processes within the school. They will also act as the initial point of contact for parents, visitors and other stakeholders so will be an ambassador for the school and embody the value, vision and ethos of the school in all interactions.

This role is extremely busy and demanding and requires someone who is able to constantly juggle conflicting priorities whilst maintaining a positive, polite and helpful attitude.

You will be required to have excellent written and verbal communication skills and great spelling, punctuation and grammar, alongside the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment where you will often be around our pupils.

Please see the attached candidate pack for more details

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 Courtlands School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• School size: 108 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Courtlands School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/courtlands-school

Courtlands Special School Academy is a friendly and ambitious academy in Plymouth which caters for primary aged children (4-11) with Moderate Learning Difficulties and Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs. Our innovative curriculum is based on meeting individual’s needs rather than schemes of work, and provides a wide range of curriculum and therapeutic input.

We are leaders in our field, having won numerous national awards for our work, and work in a Trauma Informed way to support our children to overcome their difficulties and make great progress in all areas of their development. We constantly strive for the best ways to support our children, and welcome innovation and new, evidence based ways of working.

You will need high levels of emotional resilience, and good coping strategies born out of successful experience of teaching and supporting children with complex needs including Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties such as ADHD and attachment disorders; Communication and Interaction needs such as ASC and Speech and Language Difficulties. This could be in either a special school or mainstream school, with mainstream experience being an advantage.

We can offer you a motivated and skilled staff team and a real opportunity to make a difference to the future of our wonderful children and school. We look after our staff with award winning care for their wellbeing (National Wellbeing in Schools Award 2019). You won’t be taking marking home to do in the evening, and you will be given the freedom to meet the needs of the pupils in your class, along with the resources to do it. You will receive training in a wide range of SEND and real time support and mentoring form a Leadership Team whose door is literally open all the time.

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