Switchboard Operator/ Receptionists
Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College, Birmingham, West Midlands, B12 9FFThis job expired on 3 November 2025 – see similar jobs
Closing date
3 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
14 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,159.00 Annually (FTE) Salary: Point 5, of the Support Staff for Sixth Form Colleges Salary scales, which is currently £25,159 FTE, and this will be adjusted in line with the term-time contract.
Switchboard Operator/ Receptionists job summary
We are looking to recruit two highly organised and enthusiastic Switchboard Operator/ Receptionists to join our Front of House Team. Within this role, you will welcome and deal with visitors, staff and students and provide a wide of range of administrative duties to support the reception team and the Assistant Principal. The ideal candidate will have a flexible and friendly manner along with exemplary customer service skills to deal with telephone and face-to-face enquiries in a supportive and professional manner, whilst contributing to the smooth and efficient operation of the reception area.
As this role is varied and fast-paced, you must be able to multitask, have good organisational and communication skills, whilst being able to work flexibly in a friendly and professional manner to demonstrate exemplary customer service skills. You will also have the confidence and ability to engage with visitors and students.
If successful, you would play a vital role in the College, which is graded as ‘outstanding’ in all categories by Ofsted. Our College excels in providing a broad, inclusive and high-quality education to all of our learners, which has resulted in some of the highest levels of progression to Higher Education in the sector. In 2023, students at Joseph Chamberlain College achieved outstanding exam results.
Our College is situated within easy reach of Birmingham City Centre, in a state-of-the-art building with superbly equipped classrooms and outstanding facilities.
We were featured in the 2019 Parliamentary Review for best practice in further education for the second time and we have been awarded the Teachers’ Development Trust (TDT) Silver Award for our comprehensive package of innovative and high impact professional development.
If you are aspirational for all young people and want to play a part in shaping their futures, we would really like to hear from you.
Hours of work: Part-time, across five days, term time plus 5 additional days. Hours to be agreed.
Salary: Point 5, of the Support Staff for Sixth Form Colleges Salary scales, which is currently £25,159 FTE, and this will be adjusted in line with the term-time contract.
Closing date: Monday 3rd November 2025 (to arrive no later than 12 noon).
For job details and to apply, please visit https://www.jcc.ac.uk/about-jcc/jobs/. If you have any queries regarding this role or require support with your application, please contact the HR team via e-mail HR@jcc.ac.uk or call 0121 446 2255.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to respect this commitment. The job description fully sets out the safeguarding responsibilities of the post. All roles in the College have contact with children, and as such anyone that is employed by the College is considered to be engaged in regulated activities. Our roles are therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service. Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College is an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Further information about the job
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.
About Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
- School type
- College, ages 16 to 99
- Education phase
- Sixth_form_or_college
- School size
- No information available
- Age range
- 16 to 99
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College website
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