Receptionist
Astrea Academy Woodfields, Doncaster, DN4 8ND4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
26 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
15 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,404.00 - £25,183.00 Annually (FTE) Term time contract - actual salary - £21,152 to £21,630 per annum
Receptionist job summary
We are seeking to appoint a Receptionist with commitment to the safeguarding of children and young people. The post holder will be responsible for the Academies Reception service and to provide a range of administrative support services, as a member of the Administration Team, to ensure the efficient and effective day-to-day running of the Academy.
As the first point of contact at the School, and with the emphasis on customer service and care, the post holder will be required to provide effective and efficient operation of the Academies busy switchboard, answering and directing incoming calls, taking messages for unavailable staff, forwarding messages and placing outside calls; deal with external and internal enquiries, either via the switchboard or at Reception and welcome visitors to the Academy; be responsible for the distribution of incoming post to subject departments and individuals, as well as the dispatch of outgoing post; provide administrative support to the school, working flexibly across a range of functions.
You will need to have ambition for our students as well as yourself. We want colleagues who are prepared to push themselves professionally to develop their skills and experiences, so that the young people of Astrea Academy Woodfields get the very best we can offer them.
The successful candidate will have the following knowledge and skills:
- Effective use of ICT packages.
- Use of relevant equipment/resources.
- Ability to relate well to students and adults.
- Knowledge of relevant policies/ codes of practices and awareness of legislation.
- Good understanding of clerical work.
- Have a good understanding of own training and development needs.
- Ability to work as a team and understand the Academy roles and their own position within these.
We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to appreciate fully our excellent learning environment.
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can positively impact a number of entitlements and can be discussed in more detail at interview.
The Astrea Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required.
Commitment to safeguarding
We all have a statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Astrea Academy Woodfields
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 746 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Astrea Academy Woodfields website (opens in new tab)
Our vision for education is simple and one that allows teachers to teach. We believe in a curriculum that is knowledge-rich, ‘the best that is thought and said’, that is supported by a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture. We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives.
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