Receptionist / Administrative Assistant
Streatham and Clapham High School
Lambeth
- Expired
- Salary:
- London Support Staff Grade 3 - FTE £30,291 pro rata to £13,340
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 5 January 2026
Job overview
We are seeking a customer-focused Receptionist/ Administrative Assistant with strong interpersonal skills to provide an efficient reception service for the Prep School.
The successful candidate will play a key role greeting visitors, signing people in and out of the school, dealing with telephone calls, and providing general administrative services as required, such as ordering stationary within budget guidelines and organising incoming mail and sending outgoing mail.
The successful candidate will enjoy working closely with people to see tasks through to completion and be prepared to take responsibility and use initiative in key areas.
Strong communication and organisational skills are essential. Previous experience of receptionist, ‘front of house’ duties or school settings would be advantageous.
This position is part-time, term-time-only for 20 hours per week, 4 hours per day. The working hours will be from 13:00 to 17:00.
About Streatham & Clapham High School
Streatham & Clapham High School is an independent, academically selective school for girls, aged 3 to 18 with over 870 pupils across the Prep and Senior Schools. The Senior School inhabits a four-acre site focused on an impressive 1930s building in a delightfully tranquil and leafy oasis of south London.
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
Competitive salaries and pay progression
Access to extensive professional development opportunities
Training grants for qualifications
Generous pension schemes
Free life assurance benefit
A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
Free lunches for all staff during term time
Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
A Cycle to Work scheme
Good transport links
Competitive terms and conditions of employment
How to Apply
For full details and to apply please click the Apply button.
Applications should be received no later than 8:00 am on 5 January 2026.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
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About Streatham and Clapham High School
- Streatham and Clapham High School
- 42 Abbotswood Road, Streatham, London
- SW16 1AW
- United Kingdom
Streatham & Clapham High School (SCHS) is a highly successful independent, academically selective school for girls aged 3-18. It offers an inspiring, enlightened and rigorously challenging education in a lively, vibrant and warmly supportive environment. We celebrate diversity and draw strength from our rich social and cultural mix. SCHS pupils achieve examination results which place the school in the top tier of UK independent schools at GCSE and A Level.
This reflects the school’s belief that all pupils should be inspired to outperform expectations on a daily basis. The pursuit of excellence is thus our defining feature. Along the way, our pupils learn the beauty of reason, the allure of the aesthetic, and the vitality of the physical. They are empowered to navigate the landscape of the human spirit and to achieve beyond the realms of expectation.
The Prep School (3-11) and Senior School (11-18) occupy separate sites. The Senior School inhabits a four-acre site in a delightfully tranquil and leafy oasis of south London. Pupils benefit from first-class facilities, including ICT suites, music and music technology suites, a recital hall, technology workshops, a full-size indoor sports hall, dance and art studios, and sports pitches and tennis courts. Major investment in exciting development and refurbishment plans includes a new Sixth Form Centre and a Creative Arts Centre.
SCHS is abuzz with activity. Pupils regularly put on ambitious drama productions. The school has four choirs, a full orchestra and a variety of chamber-music groups. Its pupils participate in a legion of sporting activities, in which they achieve great success. SCHS’s Gymnastics teams, for instance, were the best in England in the 2012 National Gymnastics Competition. However, pupils attain success across the spectrum of activity, from achieving outstanding results in public-speaking competitions, to winning prizes for the crash-testing of vehicles at Imperial College; from gaining awards for eco-action and sustainability, to trekking across the Atlas Mountains in Morocco or to the base camp of Mount Everest.
We are convinced that intrinsic to our pupils’ success are our expert and alert pastoral systems. The warmly supportive environment and the school’s family ethos enable all pupils to be known, valued and nurtured as individuals. This helps them to make outstanding progress, both academically and in their personal development.
SCHS has a vibrant, purposeful and happy culture with a focus on supporting all pupils to achieve beyond their potential.
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