Receptionist
The Mead School
Kent
- £12.72 per hour
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 25
- Apply by:
- 4 April 2025
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic, versatile, and meticulous person with a ‘can do’ attitude, to provide front of house reception and administrative duties for the School.
Candidates are sought who can demonstrate a particular aptitude for:
- Communication and relationship-building
- Attention to detail and effective time management
- Versatility in undertaking tasks
- Flexibility and adaptability
Reporting to: Head, School Business Manager
Hours, Salary & Benefits:
Hours: Part-time, permanent role. Term time only (40 weeks). 20 hours per week - 2/3 days per week
2pm - 6pm
Some days required outside of these hours for whole school events.
This role commences April 2025.
Salary: £12.72 ph/£10,176.00 pa
Benefits:
- Employer pension 5%
- Cycle to work scheme and discounted shopping benefits
- Means tested staff discount
- Complementary lunches
- Access to the group's counselling scheme
- Access to fully funded apprenticeships, up to L7
- Personal accident at work cover
Overview:
To take responsibility for welcoming pupils, parents and visitors to the school and to support the school Registrar/ School Business Manager with administration and receptionist duties.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
- To be the first point of contact for visitors to the School, extending a warm welcome to callers – including parents, visitors, contractors and delivery staff.
- To deal effectively with telephone calls, transferring callers to relevant staff and taking and passing on messages as required.
- Act as a gate keeper for the Head, School Business Manager and Registrar.
- To follow safeguarding procedures by issuing passes and lanyards to visitors, ensuring that visitors are signed into the School and checking DBS information for visitors.
- Communicating with parents regarding all aspects of school life, receiving and passing on information between parents and teachers in a timely manner with minimum disruption to lessons.
- To ensure that the reception area remains tidy and that literature and forms are updated and replenished as necessary.
- To receive and sign for all packages and deliveries.
- To record and post outgoing mail.
Including other general and administrative duties.
Person Specification:
Qualifications & Experience
Essential:
- Excellent working IT knowledge including MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Highly literate with excellent communication and writing skills
Desirable:
- Paediatric First Aid
- Administration of Medicine Certificate
Personal Qualities:
Essential:
- Very personable, with excellent people skills
- Possess diplomatic, tactful and empathetic skills
- Ability to deal with all situations including difficult ones
- Excellent time management
- Self-motivated, takes initiative, a team player and a strong work ethic
- Flexible and adaptable to a busy front office
- Highly organised, with strong IT skills and a good eye for detail
- Strong work ethic
- Well presented at all times
- Understanding that discretion and confidentiality are essential to the role
- Sense of humour
Working with Children:
Essential:
- Good role model
- Understanding and implementing of the School’s Behaviour policy
- Commitment to the School’s
- ethos
Desirable:
- Understanding of the learning experiences provided by the School
- Understand the importance of physical and emotional wellbeing
Working with Others:
Essential:
- Team player
- Respectful and kind at all times Supportive and patient
- Flexible and adaptable
Desirable:
- Understand the role of others working in the School
For the more details, please see the candidate pack attached.
Attached documents
About The Mead School
The Mead School is a co-educational prep school for circa 235 pupils, situated in the heart of Tunbridge Wells, approximately 400 metres from the historic Pantiles.
The school is a true community; sited in a large Victorian villa which has undergone vast physical changes and additions to accommodate the numbers and the requirements needed to provide a first class education for the twenty first century. It is run as a large family living under one roof. A child who is happy and secure in school is one who is going to learn, thrive and aspire. School must be an exciting, fulfilling and safe place where every day, whether you are aged three or eleven, is a new adventure and positively anticipated.
The school enjoys a reputation of high academic standards within a caring, happy environment. Children are prepared for the highly selective Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge Grammar Schools as well as a wide range of Independent and maintained secondary schools. Care and consideration are given to ensure each child enters the secondary school best suited to their needs.
The Mead strongly believes that every child should feel success and become a life-long learner. To this end the development of the ‘whole child’ is at the heart of all it does. For a child to achieve, they must be given the opportunity to explore and develop physically, culturally, morally, socially and spiritually.
A wide range of extra curricular activities and educational visits is offered to suit and attract each individual and thus provide the self confidence and motivation to enable pupils to explore and develop their personal strengths and interests. Each child is taught to have respect and consideration for others, whilst individual goals and talents are encouraged, stimulated and nurtured to develop the whole personality.
We are a Christian school which welcomes and respects all faiths and families, the emphasis is very much on breadth and the development of the all round person.
From the safety of the school buildings, pupils discover and explore the wider community and play an active role within it. Cricket is played at The Neville, children swim at a local pool. The annual Summer Show and Prizegiving is held at The Trinity Arts Centre to name just a few examples.
The school is an active member of The Independent Schools Association. Pupils partake in regional and national competitions and learn that the world, and all it has to offer the confident and open minded, is the greatest of all learning environments.
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