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Receptionist
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, Birmingham, West Midlands, B14 7QJ11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
12 September 2024 at 9am
Date listed
22 August 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday 36.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- SCP6-8 £23,893-£24,702 FTE, £22,032.90 - £22,778.92 TTO pro rata
What skills and experience we're looking for
Person Specification
ESSENTIAL
Have excellent
communication skills both written and verbal
Have the ability to:
- work well as part of a team
- work well on own initiative
- manage own workload
- work well under pressure
-work well to deadlines
Have a calm and
flexible nature
Have a polite, friendly and helpful manner
Be professional, diplomatic and courteous but firm
Good organisational skills
Be well presented
Be willing to actively participate in the Academy’s performance management process
Be willing to undertake training and development as required
Be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
DESIRABLE
Experience of working as a receptionist in a busy public facing environment
Experience of using IT including Microsoft Office packages and email
Previous experience and knowledge of working with SIMS or any school MIS would be an advantage
QUALIFICATIONS
Good general education including GCSE (or equivalent) maths and English
Be first aid qualified or willing to undertake required training
What the school offers its staff
The Trust offers a competitive benefits package, including:
- Pay and terms and conditions in line with nationally agreed terms and conditions.
- 25 days’ holiday per year (rising according to length of service), plus 8 bank holidays and 4 concessionary days where the School is closed.
- Membership of a regulated Pension Scheme.
- Access to training courses and funding towards role-related professional qualifications for eligible employees.
- A programme of Continuing Professional Development, including apprenticeships.
- Free parking on the School site.
- Free access to the school gym (where applicable).
- Free access to an Employee Assistance Programme offering free, 24-hour confidential assistance.
- Long service award after 25 years’ continuous service.
- A cycle to work scheme paid through salary sacrifice for eligible employees.
- Access to Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund (BHSF) for cashback on health-related purchases.
- Annual flu vaccinations.
- Death in service benefit provided through pension provider.
- UAC discounted summer camps – 50% off fees.
- EV charging stations
These non-contractual benefits may be subject to change at any time.
Further details about the role
Responsibilities and Duties
- Answering the telephone in a polite and professional manner. Screening or redirecting calls, answering queries or taking and relaying messages
- Managing the school’s enquiry and admissions email account. Replying to messages where possible or redirecting
- Dealing with queries from the public, parents and staff politely and efficiently
- To be the first point of contact for all visitors to the school. Greeting all visitors, ensuring safeguarding measures and the school visitors’ policy is adhered to. Providing access to visitors through the electronic gates
- Undertake general administrative tasks
- Prepare documents and letters as requested
- Data collection for students
- Receive, sort and redistribute incoming mail and deliveries
- Responsibility for incoming and outgoing mail; ensuring postage is completed within a timely and prompt manner
- Liaise with site staff to arrange collection of large deliveries
- Make the referrals to the School Nurse team
- Ensure the reception area is kept tidy and presentable at all times
- Compile the school’s termly newsletter
- Organise the school’s locker keys system
- Assist with emergency fire and safeguarding evacuation procedures as required
- Work as part of the larger support team
- Manage the school’s first aid response, dealing with first aid emergencies as appropriate, ensure first aid kits are fully equipped and in date.
- Manage and review student Individual Healthcare Plans (IHPs)
- Participate fully in the school’s performance management process
- Continually develop professionally as required for this role
- Play a full part in the life of the Academy community, to support its vision and ethos and to encourage and ensure staff and students follow this example
- Undertake any other tasks required from time to time that are appropriate to the grade
- 10 Plus days are as directed by the line manager.
This job description is current at the date shown but, in consultation with the employee, may be changed by the Headteacher to reflect or anticipate changes in the job commensurate with the grade and job title.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our role in school is clearly defined by statutory Department for Education (DfE) guidance - Keeping Children Safe in Education. Our duties form an important part of the wider safeguarding system for children and mean that we will always consider what is in the best interests of the child.
All schools have a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and at Camp Hill Boys it is Mr Andrew Caves, the Deputy Head (Pastoral). If you have any concerns or queries of a safeguarding nature, please contact him or your son's Head of Year.
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About King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys
- School type
- Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1017 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- headspa@camphillboys.bham.sch.uk
Welcome to King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys. We are a caring community where everyone can do and be their best. We strive to support our students through the ups and downs of life so that they can lead a happy and fulfilled life as much as possible. We pride ourselves in our breath-taking array of opportunities, both in our traditional academic curriculum and across our extra-curricular and enrichment programme.
The original school opened at Camp Hill, close to the city centre, in 1883 and moved to Kings Heath in 1956 because the original site was proving too small for a growing school. Camp Hill is a warm and welcoming community – where expectations and standards are high, and where a well-rounded education helps to prepare boys for the challenges and opportunities of adult life. Camp Hill Boys shares a beautiful campus with our sister school and can genuinely claim to be one of the highest achieving and best equipped schools in the country.
The boys are inspired by their excellent, well qualified teachers and are supported by parents, Governors and Old Boys. As a result, every year, Camp Hill Boys features prominently in national league tables for examination results and value added statistics which measure the attainment and progress of the boys. The students are ambitious and take their academic studies seriously, and they balance their priorities well – engaging fully in sport, music, arts, drama, chess and the extensive range of activities and leadership opportunities available at Camp Hill.
These views of the school were supported by Ofsted reports in 2000, 2006 and 2009 which judged the school to be “outstanding”. More importantly, the Inspectors found that Camp Hill was committed to go on improving, stating it has a “relentless pursuit of excellence in all aspects of the school’s work”.
Hopefully, our website will give you a flavour of our school. Education for able boys should be about challenge and enjoyment. They should feel supported and cared for as they grow up in a community which expects and delivers the highest standards.
Arranging a visit to King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email headspa@camphillboys.bham.sch.uk.
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