Administration Assistant / Receptionist

We are seeking to appoint a friendly and efficient person to join our busy Administration team. The successful candidate will help to maintain the excellent reputation of our outstanding school by providing an organised and effective reception service. As a key point of contact, the post-holder will be required to offer helpful and accurate responses to queries and be able to handle issues with discretion and diplomacy. As well as working on reception, the post-holder will work part time in reprographics, supporting teaching staff with a range of printed resources. The successful candidate will ideally have worked in a similar role and have excellent IT and communication skills. A First Aid qualification would be an advantage. Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School has around 950 pupils on roll including sixth form. The school's Admissions’ Code gives priority places to children of staff. We give high priority to staff development and staff are able to apply for our Professional Development Award which provides bursary payments to help finance professional development that goes beyond the school’s usual training programme. In December 2022 the school retained its OUTSTANDING grading by OFSTED. We are fully committed to our values of teamwork, respect, honesty, trust, kindness and ambition. Visitors tell us that our school is a friendly, lively and stimulating community where we emphasise the importance of the individual’s contribution and take pleasure in sharing and celebrating achievement. They commend the good behaviour of the pupils and their thirst for knowledge. Bishop’s is a diverse community that offers mutual support and encouragement and expects everyone within it to respect others’ heritage, cultures, religion and beliefs. We hope that the values, self-discipline and sense of personal worth that pupils gain here will be a support throughout their lives as British and Global Citizens. We welcome applications from candidates from racially minoritised backgrounds and from other groups that are underrepresented in the UK education system. We take safeguarding of our students extremely seriously and an enhanced disclosure will be sought through the Disclosure and Barring Service as part of the school’s pre-employment checks. The pay indicated on this advert assumes the post holder is working 37 hours per week and will be prorated to match the agreed working hours. Please see the job description on our website for more detail.