Receptionist

Hounsdown School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 9FT

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  8 September 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  28 August 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: £24,796.00 - £25,127.00 Annually (FTE) Grade B salary range £24,796 - £25,127 fte per annum - Actual £8,819 to £8,937 per annum pro rata (15 hrs) - 40 weeks per year (term time plus 1 week)

Receptionist job summary

We are seeking to appoint an efficient and reliable receptionist to join our friendly and enthusiastic Admin team.

The successful candidate will act as first point of contact for all parents, carers and visitors, in addition to working closely with staff and students across the school. Applicants should thrive on working in a busy and varied environment in an interesting and stimulating role.

We are looking for a proactive candidate with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Candidates should also have a good level of literacy and numeracy (equivalent to at least a GCSE grade C or above in Maths and English).

Essential skills and qualities required:

• Strong communication skills with ability to take and respond to telephone calls and email communications from parents / agencies
• ICT literate and the ability to use spreadsheets and Excel
• Team player

Hounsdown is a popular, over-subscribed Hampshire school. Our school has a welcoming ethos with students being courteous and respectful.

Hounsdown School offer all staff

• Private Health Cash Plan
• Free counselling support
• Fantastic CPD opportunities for all
• Cycle Loan Scheme
• Staff swimming
• Respectful email policy
• Staff fitness sessions
• Excellent pension scheme
• Free onsite parking

Hounsdown School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant pre-employment checks.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Hounsdown School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, online searches along with other relevant pre-employment checks.

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.

About Hounsdown School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1281 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hounsdown School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hounsdown-school-southampton

Hounsdown is an 11-16 Science College which converted to a Single Academy Trust in August 2011. We are a popular, over-subscribed, Outstanding (Ofsted 2017), Hampshire school and a strategic partner for the ETC Teaching School Alliance. Our school has a welcoming ethos with students being courteous and respectful. We are committed to supporting all staff in their career aspirations and growing new leaders. The school motto is ‘Be the best that you can be’.

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