School Receptionist
Haberdashers' Slade Green Primary
Bexley
- £21,750 - £23,339 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 13 October 2025
- Apply by:
- 3 September 2025
Job overview
- Ensure that visitors to the school are received courteously and punctually
- Deal with correspondence, telephone calls, visitors and enquiries
- Ensure reception is appropriately resourced ensuring the correct signing in and out of all visitors
- Liaise with staff and deal with enquiries in a friendly, efficient and approachable manner
- Act as the main point of contact for the school in reception and by phone
- Assist staff and pupils with the information and support they need
- Seek support from colleagues where necessary to respond to complex enquiries
- Update manual and computerised record/information systems
- Update and maintain the school calendar
- Assist with managing the school’s email inbox, ensuring the school meets its expected response times and that emails are forwarded to the relevant staff member as necessary
- Manage and organise completed forms for parents and guardian
- Report any issues with the school’s IT system
- Provide administrative support for staff as needed
- Order, monitor and manage stock, ensuring best value following the school’s purchasing process
- Carry out filing, printing and photocopying. Maintain the operation of the photocopier to ensure it is ready to use at all times, resolving issues as necessary
- Provide administrative support for HR and finance functions as directed by the Senior Administration Officer, ensuring tasks are completed accurately and in a timely manner
- Assist with organising parents’ evenings and other meetings and events, including the organisation of rooms and equipment and providing refreshments as necessary
- Keep records in accordance with the school’s record retention schedule and data protection law, ensuring information security and confidentiality at all times
- Coordinate the administration of Clubs, educational visits, transport bookings
- Monitor and maintain accurate records of pupil attendance, producing reports as necessary
- Monitor the late arrival of pupils and contact parents/guardian to identify reasons for non-attendance, ensuring all safeguarding procedures are followed
- Work with attendance lead to send letters to parents and liaise with the EWO
- Coordinate communications with stakeholders including website management, newsletters and letters to parents
- Produce a weekly primary newsletter
- Maintain and update the website with notices and new documents
- Write and send email responses that are professional and uphold the school’s vision and values
- Assist with marketing and promoting the school
- Enter data in the school’s finance systems
- Carry out financial administration in line with the school’s procedures
- Take delivery and sign off orders
- Control access to the school in line with the school’s safeguarding procedures, including signing in visitors, checking identification as necessary, issuing passes and notifying them of safeguarding and safety procedures
- Be alert to unknown individuals on the school’s premises and report any concerns in line with the school’s procedures
- Administer the school’s filtering and monitoring system for online safety, and escalate any safeguarding concerns following the correct safeguarding procedures
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About Haberdashers' Slade Green Primary
- Haberdashers' Slade Green Primary
- Chrome Road, Slade Green, Erith
- Kent
- DA8 2EL
- United Kingdom
Haberdashers' Slade Green Primary is a two-form entry primary school, part of the Haberdashers’ Crayford cluster.
The Haberdashers’ Trust South is a trust of academies that has been educating children in South London since 1876. The Crayford cluster provides schooling for children aged 3-18 with over 1600 children in three schools: Crayford Academy (secondary), Crayford Primary and Slade Green Primary.
We take pride in being a welcoming and inclusive school, providing children with a sense of belonging and welcoming families from diverse faiths and cultures in and around our local area.
Our happy, friendly and caring atmosphere enables children to develop personal aspiration, achieve their full potential and develop a lifelong love of learning.
We want our children to become curious and independent learners, to have high aspirations, achieve great things and embrace future challenges with real confidence.
We have great children who are keen to learn, and a strong supportive team of staff providing high-quality, inclusive education to all children and valuing the contributions that every individual brings to our school.
We provide targeted support and a broad education to enable each and every one of our children to reach their full potential and to grow into well-rounded members of our community and aim to ensure all the children and young people who come to our schools:
· Are happy and safe at school and are able to learn successfully within a supportive environment
· Are able to achieve their full potential personally, academically and socially.
· Develop and grow as independent, resourceful and resilient individuals.
· Are equipped with the skills, qualifications and love of learning they will need to be successful in the world they will join as adults.
To find out more about our school please go to www.habssladegreenprimary.org.uk/
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