Receptionist and Admin Assistant

Job Title: Receptionist and Admin Assistant

Salary range: Scale 3 £20,720 - £21,096 Inc. London weighting (Pro rata £19,084 - £19,431 Inc. London weighting)

Contract: Permanent

Hours of work: 36 hours per week

Working weeks: 42 weeks 

Location: Alperton, London 

We are a large, mixed, 11-18 academy with over 300 students in our sixth form. Due to our increased popularity as a school, we have expanded our roll from 10 to 12 form-entry from September 2018. Alperton Community School is proud to be an inclusive comprehensive school with a student intake that reflects a wonderfully diverse and vibrant local community. Our most recent Ofsted rating in July 2016 recognised the school as Good with Outstanding Leadership and Management. 

The school achieved its best ever set of GCSE results in 2018. The percentage of students achieving five good GCSEs (Grade 4+/A*-C) including English and maths has increased by 22% over the last four years and now stands at 64%. Over the last few years the school has been ranked in the top 7% of schools nationally for student progress at GCSE (Progress 8 = +0.47) and ranked in the top 1% for maths and the top 9% for English. The school has been graded as “above average” in the 2018 DfE Performance Tables. 

We are very fortunate to have a brand new school building which opened in the summer term. The new building has 83 classrooms with purpose-built specialist Drama, Music, Art and DT facilities as well as 14 Science laboratories, 10 ICT rooms, a Dance Studio, an Activity Studio, an enormous Sports Hall and outdoor MUGA. Every classroom is equipped with state-of-the-art ICT facilities. We are very fortunate to have extensive outdoor spaces which are set aside for break and lunchtime activities. 

Our school has become internationally recognised following the success of our Art and Textiles teacher Andria Zafirakou who won the $1million Global Teacher Prize 2018. The school has been shortlisted for the TES School of the Year 2018 and won the TES Maths Team of the Year 2017. We are one of only four schools in the country to hold the Platinum Professional Development Mark and one of only 100 schools to hold the Inclusion Quality Mark Centre of Excellence

The Role  

We are looking for a suitably experienced individual to work on our busy school Reception areas supporting staff, students, parents and visitors in ensuring their contact with Reception is a positive, effective, informative and professional one.  

The Person

You should have a commitment to working in an environment where all staff are passionate about the emotional and academic development of all of our students. Some of the key skills we are looking for you to demonstrate are: 

• Good organisational skills 

• Good oral and written communication skills 

• Good IT skills 

• Flexibility 

Do you enjoy working in a school environment? If so, this could be the job for you.

The Benefits 

On-going extensive CPD programme 

Childcare vouchers 

Ride to work scheme 

Employee Assistance Programme

Closing Date: 12noon, 18 July 2019 

Assessment & Interview Date: Week commencing 22 July 2019

To apply, please visit our vacancies page. Completed application forms may be emailed to; hr@alperton.brent.sch.uk.   

Supplementary Information 

Applicants who have applied for this post in the last 6 months need not apply.

We are committed to safer recruitment and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are an inclusive community school and encourage applications from all sections of the community.  

Successful candidate(s) will be required to undertake an Enhanced and Barred Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Please note CVs will not be considered as part of your application for this position.

Only successful candidates will be notified.  If you do not hear from us within 14 days of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.