Receptionist (maternity cover)

Kenilworth School and Sixth Form, Kenilworth, CV8 2AL

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Mid January 2026

• Closing date

  24 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  4 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,391.00 - £21,731.00 Annually (Actual) Term time only, 37 hours per week

Receptionist (maternity cover) job summary

Receptionist

(FTC Maternity Cover)

Term time only, 37 hours per week

From mid-January 2026 to December 2026

Band E points 5-6

£25,583 - £25,989 per annum pro rata

Actual salary: £21,391 - £21,731 per annum

The Role

We are looking to recruit a suitably experienced receptionist to cover a period of maternity leave, to provide an efficient reception service for Kenilworth School and Sixth Form.

As a first point of contact for the school, the successful candidate must have excellent customer care skills and be organised to multi-task on a busy reception.

The workload is varied, so the ideal candidate will be organised to manage and prioritise their own workload, meeting deadlines with the ability to work calmly with interruptions to assist students’/parents’/carers’ throughout the day.

Previous experience of customer care and/or reception duties in another setting would be advantageous, but training can be given to a suitable candidate.

Typical duties will include:

• managing a busy switchboard, channelling calls as appropriate
• operation of the external main gates
• welcoming visitors, parents and students dealing with a range of querie
• managing contractors for DBS and safeguarding compliance
• processing external and internal post and parcel deliveries
• daily management of the school’s email system
• various administrative duties using email, Word, Excel and an internal database
• dealing with students queries during the day at the designated student enquiry point at reception, on a rota system with colleagues
• dealing with students’/parents'/carers' queries throughout the day

You will be IT literate with the ability to use Microsoft packages, to include Word, Excel and data bases.

The role requires the post-holder to be pro-active to plan ahead; have an attention to detail; have good communication and written skills across a range of audiences with the ability to work with interruptions throughout the day.

Working Hours

The working hours with an unpaid 30 minute lunchbreak are:

Monday to Wednesday: 8.15am to 4.15pm

Thursday and Friday: 8.15am to 4pm

There may be a requirement to work on inset days, for an additional payment as agreed.

To Apply:

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Please note we cannot accept a CV as an application.

We reserve the right to close this advert early and invite candidates to interview before the closing date should we receive a sufficient number of applications, or a suitable candidate be found. We will be reviewing applications as they are received, therefore early applications are advised and welcomed.

Safeguarding

The Kenilworth Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and parents to share that commitment. Successful candidates will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check with Children’s Barred List check and obtain membership of the DBS update Service. 

Closing date: Monday, 24 November 2025 at 9am.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Kenilworth School and Sixth Form is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are made subject to receipt of a completed application form, satisfactory references and Enhanced DBS Disclosure.

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 Kenilworth School and Sixth Form

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1880 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Kenilworth School and Sixth Form website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/kenilworth-school-and-sixth-form-kenilworth

Kenilworth School and Sixth Form is recognised as being graded 'Excellent' in all areas (Ofsted February 2013) but we are ambitious and continue to better ourselves in every way possible. It became a Multi Academy Trust in January 2019 and currently has one other school within the Trust.

We combine high aspirations with a care for individual students. Our students are happy and confident individuals, who enjoy good relationships with their fellow students and the staff. We are a friendly, orderly school with a well-earned reputation for academic, sporting and personal achievement. In this environment students are given every chance to grow and achieve success.

We emphasize the development of skills such as team building, effort, responsibility, healthy competition and leadership. Our students achieve their best because of the range of experiences that we provide in an environment that is positive, supportive and forward-thinking.

Kenilworth School & Sixth Form embraces its role as a comprehensive school serving the whole community. In addition to the good work carried in the classroom there are many clubs and activities that take place outside of school hours. Our former pupils are to be found in many diverse and successful roles, most having moved through further and higher education. Students regularly achieve excellent academic results, well above the national average, and the Sixth Form Centre is very successful in providing a transition to higher education.

Students achieve their best when school and home work is in harmony. We value the contribution made by parents, governors and the community to ensure that we maintain high standards in all aspects of school life.

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