Receptionist / Administrator

Are you an experienced Administrator looking for immediate temp work?

This is a rare opportunity to join this residential special school based in Oxted on a long-term temporary basis to add additional support until December 2024.

Salary: £11.50 - £12.50 per hour

Start:3rd June 2024 - until December 2024 - Term time only (Full-time pay will be offered for full commitment)

Location: Oxted

DBS: Ideally you will hold and enhanced DBS on the update service - checks will be processed upon offer of employment

Hours: 08:30 - 17:00 Monday to Thursday, 15:30 finish on a Friday

What will your working week involve?

• Covering front of house Reception - you will be required to answer the phone in a professional, welcoming and courteous manner
• Greet visitors, sign them in and check their ID, ensuring they are issued with the correct badge dependent upon whether or not they are DBS checked.
• Respond to visitor requests in a welcoming and courteous manner.
• To organise catering for visitors, meetings, training etc.
• Ensure the entrance hall and reception and dining room area are kept clean and tidy on a daily basis
• To check and sign for deliveries
• To deal with requests from students
• To record and sign for exam documents and take them to the Exam Officer/Deputy Headteacher.
• To be responsible for maintaining and updating the school diary
• To organise open mornings including being the main point of contact for prospective parents, sending out the relevant information and forms and keeping a log for the Headteacher as well as answering queries and signing-in and directing visitors.
• To organise the collection and dispersal of incoming and outgoing mail, including taking post to the post office.
• Co-ordinate the preparation, updating, distribution and storage of a wide range of computerised and paper-based records, reports and information packages
• Update and maintain student records
• Organise INSET day packs, put together a signing-in sheet for the day and keep a record of staff compliance (behaviour/safeguarding policies etc.).
• Make routine additions, deletions and other amendments to the SIMS student database as directed.
• To enter student data on the school's information management system as required

If you have previous experience working within the education sector that would be an advantage, but as long as you are an organised team player with previous office admin experience, then please get in touch today!

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