Receptionist
Outwood Academy Riverside
Middlesbrough
- Expired
- Salary:
- £20,621 - £20,945
- Job type:
- Full Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- 1 September 2025
- Apply by:
- 20 June 2025
Job overview
37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, term time plus 5 days
This post is temporary to cover maternity leave
Outwood Academy Riverside, founded in September 2020 through the Free School Programme, implements the Riverside values programme for all students of every academic year.
The academy is dedicated to a wide variety of students who enrol, ensuring strong routines and top-notch pastoral care for all pupils.
Located at Russell Street, Middlesbrough, Outwood Academy Riverside is set to have a new school built on Pioneering Way close to Middlesbrough College. Additionally a satellite site in Eston recently opened in September for our new year 7 students, as the school continues to grow.
We are seeking a friendly, professional and efficient Receptionist to join our business and administration team. This is a forward-facing role and the successful candidate should provide exceptional front-of-house service for our Academy. You must be approachable and welcoming along with having excellent organisational skills. The successful candidate will be confident and have great communication skills with an understanding of safeguarding children.
Duties include communicating with other academy staff to ensure pupils receive the support they require, dealing with queries from parents, composing academy letters, preparing items for postage and ensuring all visitors to the academy follow the sign in procedure and have the appropriate security clearance.
Full training and support will be given for the right candidate.
When completing your application, please give due regard to the attached Job Description and Person Specification. Please note that all of the essential criteria listed on the Person Specification will be used to shortlist candidates for interview. If you do not demonstrate and or/evidence that you meet all of the essential criteria, you will not be selected for an interview.
To view our Job Description, please click here
To view our Person Specification, please click here
If you have any questions or would like to discuss the role please contact Fran McCabe, HR Assistant at f.mccabe@riverside.outwood.com
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Closing date: Midday on 20 June 2025.
Interview date: 25 June 2025.
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Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.
About Outwood Academy Riverside
- Outwood Academy Riverside
- 100 Russell Street
- Middlesbrough
- TS1 2AD
- United Kingdom
Chief Executive Officer: Lee Wilson
Principal: Melissa Brant-Smith
Outwood Academy Riverside is the first Free School within the Outwood Family, and we are delighted to be based in the large, friendly, north-east town of Middlesbrough.
We are a welcoming and supportive academy, with a relentless determination to provide the very best education for every child. We place children at the centre of everything we do, with a focus on creating a culture of success and a positive climate for learning.
Taking a holistic approach to education, valuing vocational, practical, creative, and academic qualities equally and since joining the Outwood Family in 2020 we have been establishing ourselves and helping more and more students.
We believe that learning should be both enjoyable and enriching. We are innovators with a knowledge-rich curriculum, designed to personalise learning for every student, helping them to reach their potential.
We want you to help us grow and to take us to the next level.
The Outwood Family of Schools pride ourselves on fully supporting colleagues within the Family both professionally and personally.
We work hard to ensure we reduce workload on staff, allowing more time in the classroom to put our vision of students first, raising standards and transforming lives into practice.
As a founding Trust of the National Institute of Education (NIoT), we will actively invest in your future through working closely with the Outwood Institute of Education and NIoT to offer access to a wide range of CPD opportunities, with all teaching staff receiving a minimum of two hours of CPD each week.
We also offer a generous employment package with a whole host of staff benefits, including family friendly policies, enhanced occupational benefits available (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave) with no qualifying period, funded CPD for qualifications up to and including Masters level plus other exclusive benefits including a partnership with car leasing company, Synergy.
All academies within the Outwood Family have gained the IQM Inclusive Schools Award with 18 having Centre of Excellence status and one holding Flagship status.
If you share our vision, join our family.
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