School Receptionist
Gatley Primary School, Stockport, Cheshire, SK8 4NB17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
30 November 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 November 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Term time, part time: 22.5 hours a week - Monday to Friday 11.30am - 16.00pm
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 Months
Actual salary
- £13,746.51-£13,964.84
What skills and experience we're looking for
About the Role:
Gatley Primary School is seeking a warm, welcoming, and highly organised School Receptionist to be the first point of contact for our pupils, parents, staff, and visitors.
In this vital front-of-house role, you will help set the positive, caring tone of our school community while ensuring our busy main office runs smoothly and safely every day.
Key Responsibilities
- Front-of-House Welcome: Greet parents, pupils, and visitors in a friendly, professional manner, managing the main entrance and visitor sign-in system.
- Safeguarding & Security: Maintain strict security protocols, verify visitor identification and DBS clearances, and issue appropriate lanyards.
- Communications: Manage the school's main telephone line and general email inbox, dealing with enquiries promptly or directing them to the right staff member.
- Attendance & Records: Update daily pupil attendance registers, log late arrivals, and follow up on unexplained absences using our Management Information System.
- General Administration: Process incoming and outgoing post, coordinate deliveries, manage school text/email communications to parents, and provide general clerical support to the Senior Leadership Team.
What the school offers its staff
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a valued member of our Trust, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive and rewarding benefits package. This includes a highly competitive salary, a respected and generous pension scheme, and outstanding opportunities for career progression and professional development. We are also committed to supporting your health and wellbeing, offering access to our award-winning employee assistance programme and a wide range of employee benefits and discounts.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
- exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
- school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
- opportunities for professional development and leadership
- a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
- innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
ELT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Gatley Primary School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 659 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- Vacancies@gatleyprimary.com
- Phone number
- 01614286180
Gatley Primary School is a large, three-form entry school located within a pleasant suburban area on the outskirts of Stockport. The school currently has 577 pupils on roll aged between 3 and 11. We see ourselves very much as a family school, where education is a partnership between staff, parents /carers and pupils, and where we work together for the good of all our children.
Gatley Primary provides a unique learning experience for children, which they design themselves. Our children co-construct the curriculum around their own interests and backgrounds. This starts with suggestions for themes, developing activities and then moves through to creating their own success criteria for a lesson. Staff feel that this level of involvement is crucial to everyone’s engagement and excitement for the curriculum.
Along with this, children are provided with an independent learning approach through which they are able to make choices and challenge themselves in the learning environment. Whilst a specific and challenging success criteria underpins everything within the environment, children explore and challenge themselves, accessing a range of key skills.
Arranging a visit to Gatley Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Vacancies@gatleyprimary.com.
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