Receptionist - Booker Park School

Overview

Would you like to become part of our team that helps transform a child’s life?

If you share a passion for making a difference and recognise the value in today’s world of supporting the most vulnerable, then we’d like to hear from you.

We are seeking to appoint a Receptionist to work with our wonderful Admin Team at Booker Park School.

You will offer a engaging, warm and friendly welcome, both face-to-face and on the telephone, ensuring calls and visitors are dealt with in a timely, professional and effective manner.

You can also enjoy the benefits of working within Buckinghamshire Council including financial rewards and discounts on purchases from local shops, cafes and restaurants, pension scheme and a 24 hour free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme

Term time only: Yes

Salary Type: Bucks pay

Salary details: Bucks Pay - Range 1

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 32.5 hours per week

Closing date: 29/11/2024 15:00

Interviews to be held: To be conducted as suitable candidates apply (If you have not been contacted within 3 weeks of the closing date, you must assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion)

About us

Part of the Vale Federation of Schools, Booker Park School is a primary special school.

With 237 pupils on roll, Booker Park caters for primary aged children with a broad diversity of complex needs including profound and multiple, severe and moderate learning difficulties. Almost half of the pupils have an additional diagnosis of an autistic spectrum condition. We look for all our young people to be successful learners enabling them to achieve their potential in a caring and supportive environment. We provide high quality education and care and students have access to a range of therapies, multi-agency professionals and a team of therapists who support students’ needs. We offer an excellent training package for staff together with a fantastic opportunity to become part of an innovative and forward thinking team who are providing a therapeutic and unique learning environment for its pupils.

Website: www.thevalefederation.com

About the role

In this role you will be the first point of contact at school for parents, pupils, staff and visitors. The successful candidate will be juggling the demands of a busy reception desk, including answering all incoming calls and directing as necessary, welcoming visitors, signing them in using the electronic visitors’ entry system, produce visitors’ passes and check and record ID as necessary.

This role also includes providing high quality administrative support as required and these duties will include typing letters to parents, sorting daily incoming post and the prompt checking and distribution of deliveries, all of which contribute to the smooth running of the school office contributing to the overall smooth running of the wider school admin team. External and internal training is provided as appropriate to the role and continued professional development of our staff is encouraged.

For further information please see attached Job description.

About you

In order to carry out this role you will need strong communication skills and be able to record and give accurate information in a clear, concise manner.

You will have a friendly, easy going personality whilst maintaining a professional approach to your work.

Having a disciplined and unflustered nature and being able to multi-task is essential.

Ideally, you will have experience of working in a similar role, being part of a team as well as being able to work independently.

You will need experience of Microsoft packages including Word and Excel. Although experience of using Arbor is desirable training will be given to the right candidate.

You will be able to interact appropriately with the school community including parents, staff and children who visit reception on a daily basis.

For further information please see attached Person specification. 

Other information

Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact Lynne Worley on the number below.

For further information on our recruitment process please visit our website www.thevalefederation.com

Completed applications should be emailed to: [email protected]

CVs alone will not be accepted.

School Address: Booker Park School, Stoke Leys Close, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP21 9ET

Office Tel: 01296 427221

Email:  [email protected]

The Vale Federation of Schools is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to provide two satisfactory references, undertake pre-employment checks including a health check and have a cleared Enhanced Disclosure & Barring check. An online search (including social media checks) will be carried out for all shortlisted candidates as part of our recruitment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent cautions and convictions cautions
• All adult cautions and spent convictions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) guidance or Ministry of Justice (MOJ) guidance (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.