Receptionist
Chipping Norton School, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5DY10 days remaining to apply
Closing date
23 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
11 June 2025
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
- £24,790.00 Annually (FTE)
Receptionist job summary
We are seeking a highly organised, proactive, and friendly Receptionist to be the first point of contact for our school community. This pivotal role requires an individual who can manage a busy reception area efficiently, providing administrative support and ensuring a positive and professional impression for all visitors, parents, students, and staff. The successful candidate will play a crucial part in the smooth daily operation of the school.
Main Responsibilities:
Front Desk Management:
Greeting and welcoming all visitors, parents, and students in a professional and courteous manner.
Managing visitor sign-in/out procedures, ensuring compliance with safeguarding policies.
Handling incoming and outgoing mail and deliveries.
Communication:
Answering and directing incoming telephone calls promptly and efficiently.
Responding to general enquiries via phone, email, and in person, providing accurate information or redirecting as appropriate.
Liaising effectively with staff, parents, external agencies, and the wider community.
Administrative Support:
Assisting with administrative tasks such as photocopying, scanning, filing, and data entry.
Supporting with general office duties as required.
Safeguarding and Welfare:
Ensuring the security of the reception area and controlling access to the school premises.
Acting as a point of contact for pupil welfare matters, directing to appropriate staff where necessary (e.g., first aid, late arrivals, early collections).
Maintaining confidentiality and sensitivity in all interactions and data handling.
The details of the role can be found in the Job Description and Person Specification.
We are a wholly inclusive environment with a simple goal that seeks to ensure that everyone achieves and everyone belongs. We are dedicated to educating the whole person and invite all staff to nurture courageous and compassionate hearts, alongside curious and creative minds.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. AT RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate and therefore, an offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
If you would like to have a confidential conversation regarding this role, prior to application, please contact Barry Doherty, Headteacher, bdoherty@chippingnortonschool.org or telephone 01608 544998.
OUR VISION is for the schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better, faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles around High-TEMPO teaching, and a commitment to calm, kind and compassionate classrooms.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
The River Learning Trust and Chipping Norton School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered.
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 are not accepted.
About Chipping Norton School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1002 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Chipping Norton School website
School location
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