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Head Receptionist

Head Receptionist

Brighton Aldridge Community Academy

Brighton and Hove

Salary:
SP9 £20,746.18 pro rata (£23,194 FTE)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
23 February 2023

Job overview

Academy:                Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA)

Job​Title:                 Head Receptionist

Reporting to:          Executive Assistant to the Principal

Contract Basis       37 hours, term time plus 2 weeks

Salary:  SP9 £20,746.18 pro rata (£23,194 FTE)

Working hours: 8am to 4pm Monday to Thursday and 8am to 3:30pm on Friday

Overall purpose of the role:

The post-holder will provide high level customer service both face to face and on the phone and via email. The post-holder will have responsibility for specific tasks such as issuing ID passes for students, staff and visitors, keeping records up to date and ordering stationery.


Key Duties:

  • To oversee the ‘front of house’ area and ensure all visitors receive a warm welcome.
  • To always project a professional image of the College.
  • Answer and direct all incoming phone calls.
  • Process and distribute incoming post and frank outgoing post.
  • Maintain the general email account responding to queries/directing enquiries as required.
  • Issue ID passes for students, staff and visitors.
  • Assist in the upkeep of student and staff records, ensuring all safeguarding checks are completed for agency staff 
  • Organise and store paperwork, documents and computer-based information.
  • Order stationary and first aid equipment.
  • Use a range of software including email, spreadsheets, SIMS and other databases.
  • Assist with the management of student lockers and keys.
  • Assist with organising meeting rooms and ordering refreshments when required.
  • Typing, emailing, filing, photocopying, data entry and other administrative tasks.

To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click through to apply and download the Receptionist recruitment pack.

To apply please supply a CV and covering letter. If you are called for an interview you will be required to fill out an application form.


Other Responsibilities:​

Operating at all times within the stated policies and practices of BACA and the wider Trust.

Abiding by and practicing the Aldridge Education Operating norms:

  • We are Aldridge Education
  • The standard is excellence
  • We’re in the work together
  • We lead by example
  • We champion equality
  • We behave with integrity
  • We use time well​


Equal Opportunities

  • To know and adhere to the BACA equal opportunities policy and equalities legislation and implement in relation to job responsibilities in employment and service delivery.


Health and Safety

  • To take reasonable care for his/her own health and safety and any other person(s) who may be affected by his/her acts or omissions at work, in accordance with the Health & Safety legislation.
  • To co-operate with BACA insofar as is necessary to enable it to comply with its duties under relevant health and safety legislation.

Safeguarding Statement:

Aldridge Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Where the role for which you are applying involves engaging in regulated activity, it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

A copy of Aldridge Education’s Child Protection policy is available on our website at www.aldridgeeducation.org

Following successful interview, Aldridge Education will carry out the necessary prohibition checks for all teaching staff, as well as for all candidates undertaking regulated activity.

If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, you will be required to complete a Declaration giving details of any relevant criminal offences and other relevant information relating to our safeguarding duty. Further information will be provided on that form.

Any offer of employment will be made conditional upon a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and barred list check (where applicable to the role in question).

If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, Aldridge Education will undertake online searches (including social media) in accordance with KCSIE 2022.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

About Brighton Aldridge Community Academy

Brighton Aldridge Community Academy

It is my pleasure to welcome you to Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA).

Our mission is to ensure all BACA students benefit from an excellent education, secure great qualifications and develop into young adults who are the first choice recruits for universities and employers.

The academy’s motto is simple - “Believe you can”. Whether in the classroom, on the sports field or performing on stage, we inspire each of our students to develop the knowledge and skills they need to follow their passions into a successful future.

Through encouraging an enterprising mindset we enable students to thrive in today's rapidly-changing world. We teach students to be innovative and resilient through promoting the Aldridge Attributes of teamwork, creativity, passion, problem-solving, risk-taking and determination in all aspects of academy life.

Never has the world felt more rapidly-changing than when the COVID-19 pandemic caused massive upheaval in all of our lives. I am incredibly proud of how our students, families and staff rose to that challenge, and that 97% of our parents told us that the academy did a good job under these challenging circumstances. In the same survey 98% of parents and 93% of our students told us I am proud to be a member of the BACA community.

Students joining us in Year 7 are embarking on an exciting seven-year journey. We are proud to be an 11-18 school that allows students to build on their successes at Key Stage 3 and GCSE to our sixth form.

We work closely with a community of industry partners, leading employers and our neighbouring universities to offer students a comprehensive careers advice and work-related learning programmes. Over 50 organisations, from Southern Water and Metro Bank to local solicitors and IT companies have come into the academy at different times in the last year to work with students, supporting their careers aspirations, helping them gain industry experience and building interview skills.

Our students also benefit from a rich offer in terms of the creative arts. The BACA 100 challenge gives them a wide range of experiences that help develop resilience, confidence and independence. Our sports facilities are exceptional and partnerships, such as that with Sussex Cricket, allow our students to combine high-quality training with their academic studies. BACA has again been named amongst the Cricketer Magazine’s Top100 schools for cricket in the country in 2020 and 2021, one of only four non-selective state secondary schools to achieve this.

BACA is a very special place. It is a privilege to lead it and I look forward to welcoming you to the academy.

Mr Jack Davies, Principal

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