Receptionist

The Cornovii Trust, Alsager, ST7 2HR

6 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  3 September 2024

• Closing date

  9 July 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  1 July 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Term time: 37 hours per week, 38 weeks (term time only)
• Contract type: Fixed term - 12 months approx
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,737 to £23,114

What skills and experience we're looking for

1. Provide a first-class reception and telephone answering service (both internal and external) to ensure that all callers are dealt with promptly and the image of the school is enhanced.

2. Take responsibility for reception and act as the initial point of contact for visitors to the school, dealing with enquiries from parents/carers and members of the public and always maintaining an exemplary environment and professionalism. Ensuring that any messages or complaints are immediately forwarded to the appropriate member of staff.

3. To ensure that all visitors to the school are signed in and out accurately, are issued with the appropriate lanyard and informed of visitor’s guidelines.

4. Commitment to safeguard & promote the welfare of children.

5. To exercise complete discretion when dealing with issues of confidentiality and sensitivity.

6. Undertake a variety of administrative tasks: distributing incoming post; processing and franking outgoing mail to facilitate the smooth running of the school. Processing emails to the relevant departments via Outlook and using SharePoint.

7. Maintain and update records on the Student Information Management System (SIMS.net) and access pupil personal data.

8. Sign pupils in and out of the building, following safeguarding procedures.

9. Checking and signing for deliveries to the school.

10. To ensure the Office Supervisor is fully briefed on any matters that have been brought to your attention via the reception.

What the school offers its staff

• employee of the week scheme
• superb on-site catering at very competitive prices.
• complementary ‘breakfast sandwiches’ each month on pay day.
• reduced membership of the on-site Leisure Centre Fitness Suite.
• free on-site parking.
• good road/rail links with access to Manchester city center and the airport in under an hour.
• a pleasant, working environment in well maintained and equipped classrooms on a mature campus in the heart of Alsager in rural Cheshire East.

Commitment to safeguarding

Alsager School is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of all students and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Applying for the job

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobs@thecornoviitrust.org

Visas cannot be sponsored.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Receptionist-outline- July 2024 - K.pdf - 247 KB (opens in new tab)

Reception Grd 3 Advert TCT.pdf - 194 KB (opens in new tab)

About The Cornovii Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: The Cornovii Trust website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: jobs@alsagerschool.org
• Phone number: 01270 871100
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/alsager-multi-academy-trust (opens in new tab)

In September 2022 our school, along with 4 other local schools combined to become The Cornovii Trust; Alsager Highfields Primary, Alsager school, Audlem St. James CofE Primary, Brine Leas School and Weston Village Primary.
Alsager School is a large 11-18 mixed Multi Academy Trust with 1569 pupils on roll, including approximately 267 students in the Sixth Form and is the only secondary school in the town.

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