Receptionist

Receptionist (Part Time)

We are seeking to appoint a part-time Receptionist to join our team in March 2025.

This wonderful role gives you long weekends and long holidays and is 13 hours per week Monday to Thursday, term-time only. So, if you are someone who seeks to go out of your way to help and serve all those you encounter and have a warm, professional manner please get in touch about the Receptionist role which is detailed below.

Due to the remote location of the school, Candidates are required to have access to reliable transportation.

The successful applicant will warmly and professionally welcome every visitor to Worth Reception; pupil, parent, staff or guest via the front door, the phone, email or post whilst also ensuring a safe and caring environment. Ideally, they will have experience in a customer service role.

Specific Duties include:

• All incoming and outgoing calls, and voicemail,
• Warmly welcoming all visitors, signing them in according to safeguarding practices
• Clear and professional communication with visitors, colleagues and students
• Follow up of non-registered students and students absent from their lesson
• Responsibility for all incoming and outgoing post
• Management of the Reception@ and Information@ inboxes
• Thorough handover with fellow Receptionists

What we are looking for:

• Ability to utilise key software, such as Microsoft Office applications
• Educated to at least GCSE level or equivalent
• Excellent customer focus and people skills

Desirable attributes:

• Experience in an educational environment
• Experience in an administrative role

The School offers its own generous salary scale and an enhanced benefits scheme including an employee assistance programme, meal provision and enhanced pension contribution. Employees have access to our facilities and benefit from free parking, social events and discounted school fees.

Worth is a highly successful co-educational, Catholic, Benedictine, 11-18 HMC boarding and day school of circa 600 pupils. It offers a broad curriculum, including the International Baccalaureate and A levels in the Sixth Form.

Email: recruitment@worth.org.uk

Telephone: 01342 710215

Closing date for applications: 31 January 2025 *

*We reserve the right to invite candidates for interview prior to the closing date and to close vacancies early if we have sufficient suitable applications. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to apply as soon as possible.

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy; Worth School is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children, all employees must have the ability to understand and adhere to Child Protection and Safeguarding legislation. The role holders safeguarding responsibilities are set out in the job description. References may be taken prior to interview and DBS and other vetting checks will be conducted on the successful applicant.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 Section 7(1)(a) states that it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.