7 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    April 2025

  • Closing date

    2 March 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    14 February 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Administration, HR, data and finance

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£21,196.00 - £22,188.00 Annually (Actual)

Receptionist job summary

Receptionist

Permanent, Term-Time plus 5 INSET Days

Monday - Friday, 8am - 4pm

Pay Scale : H4, Pay Point : 6-9

Salary : £21,196.00 - £22,188.00

We are looking to recruit a Receptionist to work on a permanent, term-time (plus 5 INSET days) within our busy School Office. The successful candidate will be the first point of contact either face to face or by telephone, managing our busy Reception area where no one day is the same. Duties are varied and involve regular interactions with students, parents, greeting all external visitors as well as all areas of the school workforce.

If you are interested in applying for this position, please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification and complete your application via My New Term. Please note that direct applications with CVs will not be accepted. Watford Grammar School for Girls reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if adequate numbers of applications have been received.

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.

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About Watford Grammar School for Girls

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1451 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

Watford Grammar School for Girls is a partially selective 11-18 girls’ school, founded as ‘The Free School’ in Watford in 1704 with a mission to teach girls, initially alongside their brothers, from the outset. This makes us one of the oldest girls’ school in the country.

We are proud of our heritage, but equally proud of our innovative approach to teaching and learning. Watford Grammar School for Girls has a very strong and distinctive ethos with clear vision and values.

There are close to 1500 pupils on role with more than 400 in the sixth form; academic results are consistently very high indeed and the school is ranked as outstanding by Ofsted.

There are always plenty of opportunities for teaching and support staff to train and develop their careers at Watford Girls.

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