School Receptionist

**Full Job Description**:
**We're on a mission to give our colleagues an amazing work/life balance**

**Job Title: School Receptionist (6 month Maternity Cover contract)**

**Location: Reddish Hall, Stockport**

**Salary: £19,133.40 per annum**

**Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 8am - 4pm**

**Contract: Fixed Term**

**UK applicants only.**

**About the role**

To support the School admin office and provide an efficient and confidential secretarial service to the Head Teacher, staff, students and parent / carers, ensuring efficient administrative and financial systems are maintained.

**Responsibilities**:

- Answering queries and providing accurate messages to ensure that all individuals are dealt with promptly and appropriately, with diplomacy and discretion.
- Providing administration/clerical support for the school.
- Update, modify and retrieve data on both manual and computerised systems, as required, working within the appropriate deadlines and highlighting discrepancies, to provide accurate and useable management information.
- Ensure appropriate message/telephone options are correct for the school.
- Update/distribute staff internal phone lists as and when required.
- Manage own effective personal development as part of the Company’s commitment to invest in staff as the key resource in the organisation.
- Ensure you meet statutory responsibilities regarding Health & Safety, Equal Opportunities and other relevant legislation, and conform to professional and ethical requirements.

Please provide written examples of Knowledge/Experience relating to the job role.

**About The School**

Reddish Hall is an independent SEMH school situated in Stockport, meeting the needs of students with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. The aim of the school is to encourage pupils to achieve and succeed personally, academically, socially and develop their self confidence that will enable them to cope in everyday situations and manage the transition from school to college or work environments. By rebuilding self-esteem and forging positive relationships, our pupils replace failure with success.

Reddish Hall School is based in Reddish, Stockport. The school is commutable from Manchester, Stockport and Surrounding areas.

We are part of the Acorn Care and Education Group and can promise you plenty of challenges, and a rich variety of opportunities to develop your career.

**Why join Acorn Education & Care?**

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

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