Receptionist - Part time, Term time

Park Hall Academy, Birmingham, West Midlands, B36 9HF

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  1 December 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £10,915.00 - £11,261.00 Annually (Actual) Band B - full time equivalent salary range: £24,796-£25,583. Actual salary range for 19 hours per week, 39 weeks per year is £10,915-£11,261

Receptionist - Part time, Term time job summary

We promise to offer you both a stimulating and highly rewarding experience in return for your motivational skills and good practice. Opportunities do not arise very often to work in a vibrant school like Park Hall Academy and we are delighted to be offering the chance for someone to join the team.

Hours of work: Wednesday 12-4pm, Thursday and Friday 8am-4pm (including a 30 minute unpaid lunch break) = 19 hours per week

Main duties include:

• The provision of reception service to all enquirers, in person, electronically and on the telephone. This includes greeting visitors and signing them in order to ensure adequate safeguarding.
• Maintaining and monitoring pupil database, class lists and official school register
• Updating safeguarding documents and information relating to external agency workers
• Contact with parents around attendance/punctuality including first day absence
• Word processing for school staff and governors.

Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

Knowledge of SIMS would be an advantage but is not essential as training will be given.

Arden Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all its staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality or religion. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Disclosure and, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, will be subject to a social media online search.

Come and visit us - you will not be disappointed! If you would like to have a look around and have an informal chat, please contact Karla Donald, PA to Associate Headteacher on 0121 748 0423 or email: kdonald@parkhall.org.

Please note: CVs are not accepted.

Exceptional candidates may be interviewed prior to the closing date.

Further information about Arden Multi Academy Trust is available here:

https://www.ardenmat.org.uk/

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

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.

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 Park Hall Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1270 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Park Hall Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/park-hall-academy-birmingham

Park Hall Academy is a fantastic school, embedded in the Castle Bromwich community. Situated minutes from Junction 5 of the M6 and Junction 7 of the M42, we are ideally located for easy access. We are the highest performing school in the area with a positive atmosphere and ethos that is unparalleled. As part of the Arden Multi Academy Trust there is the opportunity for exceptional training and the sharing of knowledge and ideas. We are a GOOD school. Our Ofsted in November 2017 highlighted our many Good and Outstanding features. We are the highest performing school in North Solihull with a positive Progress 8 score for the last two years of publication. Our percentage of Grade 5 or above in the Basics has continued to improve year on year and this reflects our desire to be Outstanding. We are a school with a very strong Sixth Form with results among the best in the country.

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