Receptionist
The Shaw Education Trust, Stoke-On-Trent, ST7 4DL12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
26 September 2024 at 9am
Date listed
13 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, Working hours: Full time, all year – Mon-Thurs 8:00am – 4.00pm Fri 8.00pm – 3.30pm
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- G4 SCP 13-16 £23,115-£23,893 FTE-Pay Award Pending
Pay scale
- G4 SCP 13-16 £23,115-£23,893 FTE-Pay Award Pending
What skills and experience we're looking for
Shaw Education Trust are seeking a highly motivated receptionist for their front desk at Head office. Excellent customer service skills both face to face and on the telephone are a must, along with strong administration skills. Ideally you will have experience of an educational setting, school reception or administration office and be able to work under pressure and multitask effectively.
Duties will include, but not limited to:
- Placing orders as required and receipt/return of goods
- Welcoming visitors, ensuring sign-in, providing refreshments
- Answering telephone and monitoring enquiries email – forwarding as appropriate
- Receiving and forwarding SET post
- Administration services to Directors e.g. typing, reprographics, shredding etc
- Maintain SET Photo Walls/celebration displays
- Maintaining SET kitchen (tidying/dishwasher etc)
- Distribution of items to schools
- Liaison with KSS Caretaker
Shaw Education Trust are a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
Our values are To Be Pupil and People Centred, To be Best in Class, To be Accountable, To be Innovative, To Act With Integrity
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined for the purposes of this guidance as:
Protecting children from maltreatment
Preventing impairment of children’s mental and physical health or development
Ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
Taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes
Shaw Education Trust recognises that in order to keep pupils safe, leaders must create where pupils and staff are able to speak freely and share any concerns they have.
Applying for the job
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About The Shaw Education Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
We are in the business of people; we focus on harnessing the power of people to affect positive change for our children and young adults.
We enable children, leaders, teachers and support teams, to create their individual best futures. We are bespoke: one size fits one.
Our approach derives from a mission that education should be an exciting space, buzzing with vibrancy, dynamism and unlimited potential.
Innovation and entrepreneurialism fuel our passion, enabling creativity and mandating agility. We love a pirate!
Our talented people are everything; we focus heavily on workforce development, talent acceleration, and healthy wellbeing. By offering high quality training, apprenticeships, and research opportunities we ensure all our colleagues are well motivated, committed, highly valued, and incredibly driven, skilled professionals.
We are proud of our work family: they create magic for our young people!
Our learning community is enhanced by the mix of academies (primary, secondary and specialist) within our Trust; all with an equal voice. This allows us to create a team of collaborative folk with a wide range of valuable experience and knowledge.
We value and enjoy the privilege of working with our children and young adults; they are precious cargo. We are proud to be ‘exactly like nothing else.’
Our Core Values are:
To Be Pupil And People Centred
To Act With Integrity
To be Innovative
To Be Best In Class
To Be Accountable
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