Receptionist and Administration Assistant
Leeds East Academy, Leeds, LS14 6HA12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
28 September 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 September 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
- £25,454.00 - £26,267.00 Annually (Actual)
Receptionist and Administration Assistant job summary
To contribute to creating and maintaining an effective office administrative support service through providing general office administration for the academy.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Be responsible for opening the reception and ensure the switchboard is operated from 7.45 am
each morning.
Act as the first point of contact for parents and visitors providing a courteous, professional,
calm, and friendly service.
Retrieve telephone messages/emails and dealing with telephone enquiries.
Liaise with students/staff/visitors on a daily basis.
Sign visitors and contractors in and out and contractors complying with LEA visitor safeguarding
protocols.
Provide an excellent customer service to parents, colleagues, and visitors to the academy.
Ensure incoming and outgoing mail is organised daily.
Sign for and take delivery of parcels keeping an accurate record of deliveries.
Keep an accurate record of all visitors to the academy including scheduled meetings and key
academy visitors.
Provide student reception support during start of academy day.
Be a First Aider and support the First Aid rota.
Manage first aid resources.
To undertake routine administrative tasks, including:
Manage the academy’s reprographic function, maintaining stock levels and complete
reprographics printing requests.
Maintain manual and computerised records/management information systems.
Record keeping, data input and retrieval.
Undertake typing, word-processing, and other IT based tasks.
Use Microsoft Office and Databases effectively to deliver administrative tasks.
Communicate effectively with customers and colleagues in relation to work undertaken.
Work with others to help improve work organisation and effectiveness.
Ensure the franking machine is maintained.
Undertake general office duties as required.
Book meeting rooms.
Book taxis, updating taxi bookings and transport log.
Support the administration team with daily tasks.
Provide hospitality to visitors on arrival if required.
Manage stationary, carry out stock take and reorder for Admin department.
Other duties
Carry out morning, break, lunch and after school duties as required by the leadership team.
Carry out any other duties as directed by the Principal.
Work with others to help improve work organisation and effectiveness
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students and expects all staff and volunteers to share the commitment. Appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures and an enhanced DBS check.
Please note this role will involve contact with children and you will be engaging in regulated activity. It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds. Applications are welcome, irrespective of
sex, sexuality, race, religion, marital status, age or disability.
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 Leeds East Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 967 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Leeds East Academy website
Leeds East Academy is an over-subscribed 11-16 academy that has recently achieved the title of UK Parliament School of the Year. We are a vibrant, diverse and welcoming academy community who are committed to securing our highly ambitious vision of ‘Everyone Exceptional’ for every single member of our wonderful school. Over the last three years the school has been on a rapid journey of transformation which has resulted in significant improvements in attendance, progress, and behaviour. We received a ‘good’ judgement in our 2019 Ofsted inspection and every member of our community is determined to convert this to outstanding and beyond at our next inspection.
We are proud to be an academy who forms part of the High-Performance Learner international community and our vision of ‘Everyone Exceptional’ is underpinned by the principles of High-Performance Learner. The principles simply foster the belief that every child can and will perform highly and are able to excel both academically and personally within the right climate and culture. We have worked closely with our academy community to develop a culture and climate in which both staff and students can flourish.
Our academy is committed to delivering an outstanding education to each and every one of our students. We provide exceptional life training; harnessing the skills and fortifying the aspirations of young people, who we know will transform the region and provide a positive, progressive contribution to society.
White Rose Academies Trust is a local trust dedicated to raising and fulfilling the ambitions of young people. Our academies throughout Leeds are at the heart of the communities they serve, which is why we are committed to delivering an outstanding education to every one of our students.
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