Receptionist
Ryedale School, York, North Yorkshire, YO62 7SL13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
March 2026
Closing date
2 March 2026 at 9am
Date listed
16 February 2026
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
- £14,015.00 - £14,689.00 Annually (Actual) Salary shown is pro-rata, based on full time equivalent of £24,796- £25,989 (Grade C/D, Scale Points 03-06)
Receptionist job summary
Working within the busy environment of the school office and reception area, the successful candidate will be responsible for welcoming all visitors to the school. As the central point of contact for students, staff and parents, you will be dealing with queries in person, by phone, email and post in an efficient and accurate manner.
Excellent organisational skills are essential in order to provide an administrative, reprographic and reception service and a variety of tasks which need to be undertaken.
Job Details
Hours of Work: 23.5 Hours Per Week, Term Time + 1 Week (40 Weeks Per year)
Monday & Wednesday 8:30-5pm, Friday 8:30-4:30pm
Position Type: Permanent
Line Manager: Office Manager
Travel Required: No
Please see the attached job description for more information.
About the Role
As the first point of contact for students, staff, parents and visitors, you will help maintain the smooth running of our reception area and wider school office. You’ll provide high‑quality administrative support, ensure all visitors feel welcomed, and uphold our strong safeguarding culture. No two days are the same, and your ability to stay organised and positive will be highly valued.
Key Responsibilities
- Welcoming visitors and ensuring safeguarding procedures are followed
- Responding to enquiries via phone, email and in person
- Managing student queries
- Maintaining a tidy, organised and professional reception environment
- Supporting reprographics and general office tasks
- Communicating effectively with staff, students, parents and external agencies
What We’re Looking For
We are seeking someone who is:
- Warm, approachable and confident in a front‑of‑house role
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
- Able to work efficiently in a busy environment
- A strong communicator with a positive, solution‑focused approach
- Professional, reliable and committed to supporting our school community
- Competent with IT systems (training provided where needed)
- Has high expectations of themselves and others
- Shows initiative and responds positively to change
- Works well as part of a team and collaborates effectively
- Has strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate well with pupils and staff
- Is reliable, organised and flexible, with a positive attitude
- Takes pride in maintaining high standards of cleanliness and food safety
- Is committed to the Trust values of kindness, respect, integrity and good manners
- Can contribute to creating a safe, supportive and well‑disciplined school environment
- Strong commitment to safeguarding
Why Join Us?
Ryedale Secondary School is part of Areté Learning Trust, committed to providing high-quality education and support for all students. You will be joining a collaborative team dedicated to excellence and continuous improvement.
Closing Date:
Please apply via MyNewTerm by 9 am on Monday 02 March 2026.
About the Trust
Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18. Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.
At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential.
Our Trust is committed to promoting:
Health, happiness and wellbeing
A safe, disciplined and supportive environment
A love of learning through a passionate and committed approach
High standards and expectations
Integrity, kindness and good manners
Respect for individuality and difference
Collaborative working to secure excellence
To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are ‘Striving for Excellence’.
Why work for us?
We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture.
We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.
In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.
Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the ‘Employer of Choice’.
Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.
Regardless of role, we seek staff who:
Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.
Are committed to our Trust values.
Show initiative and are responsive to change.
Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.
Are creative in their approach to problem solving.
Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.
Are team players.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement (https://www.arete.uk/careers). If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application.
Application Process
Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. You should use the information supplied with in the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process. Applications via agencies will not be considered.
Interviews will take place as soon as possible after the closing date.
The Areté Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.
Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Ryedale Learning Trust is committed to our responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people. We are committed to recruiting candidates who share this commitment and therefore we apply safer recruitment screening to candidates prior to appointment.
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 Ryedale School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 704 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ryedale School website
Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Type: Mainstream School,
Phase: Secondary,
Funding status: State - Academy
Gender: Mixed
Age range: 11 - 16 years
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