Part Time Receptionist

Role: Receptionist

Location: Carlisle

Hours: 20 hours

Days: Mon - Fri 9am - 1pm

Pay - Competitive Salary

About my client

My client is an established legal and professional services firm, they employ approximately 1,500 professionals who provide high-quality services to over 10,000 clients across the UK. Their commitment to empowering their team enables them to offer exceptional advice, supporting their clients in achieving their objectives and fostering mutual success.

Day-to-day of the role

• Welcoming all guests into the office, ensuring they are given a warm welcome by meeting guests at the door, taking their coats, offering refreshments and ensuring their comfort during their time
• working with the Hospitality team to ensure events/lunches are set up appropriately and run smoothly, ensuring any requests made to you are redirected correctly
• setting up meeting rooms appropriately with refreshments and ensuring these are refreshed as and when required
• dealing with post - opening and distributing incoming post and parcels; and ensuring that outgoing post is sent on time each day
• welcoming new joiners - orientating them around the office, making appropriate introductions to colleagues, ensuring their comfort in the office by offering refreshments, assisting with IT issues such as logging in on their desk phones, docking laptops and using printers as well as informing them of key features such as fire exists, bathroom locations and tea points
• being the primary operational support within your office, supported by the central Office Services team to undertake a variety of operational tasks
• liaising with the central Office Services team to support colleagues with all operational issues including maintenance, booking of couriers and meeting room booking
• undertaking stock checks to ensure maintenance of suitable levels of stationery and other consumables

Skills / qualities required

• presentable and personable, front of house, strict dress code, position is uniformed
• attention to detail
• have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• flexibility, this position can occasionally require early starts (8am) or later finishes (6.30pm) when there are events
• IT literate, Microsoft Word, Excel
• willing to go above and beyond