Receptionist
Heartwood CofE VC Primary & Nursery School, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7RFThis job expired on 22 September 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
October 2025
Closing date
22 September 2025 at 1am
Date listed
2 September 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
- £13.05 per hour
Receptionist job summary
Tel: 01760 721357
Email: head@heartwood.norfolk.sch.uk
Website: www.heartwood.norfolk.sch.uk
- Salary - Scale C, £13.05 per hour (£25,185 FTE)
- Permanent
- Part Time
- 12.5 hours per week (Mon & Tue)
- Term Time only
- Required for October 2025
Our school is a warm, happy and friendly school. We have a child centred approach in all that we do. The staff, children and governors are keen to appoint a friendly, dedicated and professional Receptionist as a job share and be front of house and represent our wonderful school. There will be a cross over with the current Receptionist for a thorough handover and support. Hours of work, Monday and Tuesday, 8.45am – 3.30pm, ½ hour for lunch.
We are looking for the ideal candidate who:
- Experience of working in a school office (essential)
- Experience of a job share (desirable)
- Is passionate and inspiring
- Is friendly and welcoming
- Has a good phone manner
- Has a warm personality and a good sense of humour
- Provides high quality support for our pupils
- Shows initiative and enthusiasm
- Is sympathetic to our Christian ethos
- Is committed to building strong relationships with parents and the community
- Will embrace the hygge approach to our school community
We offer:
- High levels of nurture, guidance and support for our children and staff
- A supportive and friendly staff who enjoy working and being together, including a team of experienced teaching assistants
- A lovely working environment in beautiful surroundings, including a forest school
- Happy and enthusiastic children
- Forward thinking approaches
Please visit our website to find out more about us at - www.heartwood.norfolk.sch.uk
For more information or to arrange a visit please email Rebecca Starman, Headteacher at - head@heartwood.norfolk.sch.uk or call 01760 721 357.
How to apply
To download an application form, click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button.
Please return completed application forms to - head@heartwood.norfolk.sch.uk
Applications will be considered upon receipt, therefore early submission is recommended. This advert may be expired prior to the closing date stated, if a suitable applicant is found.
Closing date: 22 September 2025, 8am
Interview date: TBA
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments will be made subject to an enhanced DBS check and two suitable references.
This post comes under the requirements of the childcare (Disqualification) 2009 regulations and the successful supplicant will be required to complete a declaration form to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Further information about the job
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.
About Heartwood CofE VC Primary & Nursery School
- School type
- Local authority maintained schools, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 249 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Heartwood CofE VC Primary & Nursery School website
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