Reception Manager (maternity cover)
Newland House School
Richmond upon Thames
- £15,000 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- October 2020
- Apply by:
- 25 September 2020
Job overview
The School is seeking an experienced and efficient individual to manage our busy Reception and Medical Room. The ideal candidate will have a friendly, professional manner to welcome visitors, have a hands-on approach and the flexibility to deal with queries from parents, staff and pupils, have good communication skills both written and verbal, be a confident user of IT systems e.g. SIMS, Excel, Word, and be an effective team member with good organisational skills and a willingness to support children e.g. administer first aid.
The post is likely to be for up to one year to cover maternity leave. This is a part-time job share role working 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday in term time. There will need to be some monitoring of phone messages and emails in the school holidays and this is shared with the Job share Reception Manager.
Newland House School is a successful, over-subscribed, flourishing co-educational independent day school for pupils aged from 4 to 13, based in Twickenham, in South West London. To give you a flavour of life at our school, please take a look around our website http://www.newlandhouse.net/
Completed applications should be returned to the HR and Compliance Manager by the closing date either by email or by post to Alka Soni, HR and Compliance Manager at Newland House School, Waldegrave Park, Twickenham, TW1 4TQ. No late applications will be accepted. No agencies please.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview in week commencing 28 September 2020
Newland House School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
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About Newland House School
Newland House is a very special school. You only have to walk through the front door to experience its wonderfully friendly atmosphere and the great sense of purpose that symbolises so much of what is done here. Set in three buildings, it boasts a newly established Nursery, a Pre-Prep in a new, stylish and ergonomic building and a Prep which mixes the modern and traditional.
It is proud of its achievements, not only because children regularly win scholarships to some of the best independent senior schools in the country, but because their awards are not just academic but are for music, sport, art and all round ability too.
The school’s strength lies in the breadth of education it provides. Every child has the ability to succeed. Teachers find the areas in which they show promise and nurture them.
The sense of family and community and the mutual support between teachers and pupils is an especially strong feature of the school. Newland House School wants its children to be happy and self –confident, as well as having the desire to care for and respect others too.
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