Receptionist

**Salary**:
NJC Scale 4 - 6 (FTE £24,404 - £25,183). Actual salary £20,990 - £21,660 (39 weeks, Term Time only).

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
ASAP

30 March 2025

**Job overview**:
Are you passionate about providing excellent customer service? Join our team as a Receptionist and be the first point of contact for our busy school.

**Location**: Ash Green School, Coventry

**Salary**: NJC Scale 4 - 6 (FTE £24,404 - £25,183). Actual salary £20,990 - £21,660 (39 weeks, Term Time only).

**Start Date**: ASAP

**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Working Pattern**: 37 hours per week, 08:30am - 16:30pm, 39 weeks per year.

**About Our School**: Ash Green School has been on a positive journey over the past 12 months, anchored in our G.R.A.C.E values - global citizenship, resilience, aspiration, creativity, and excellence - this period has seen our students thrive and grow in their educational pursuits.

The dedicated team at Ash Green School uphold high expectations for each student, providing abundant support and motivation to help them realise their full potential.

**About You**:As a school receptionist, you will:

- Ensure the main reception area is run effectively.
- Be a point of contact for both telephone and face to face enquiries and take messages where appropriate.
- Be responsible for signing in late students and passing on the information to the student receptionist.
- Ensure that all visitors are signed in and issued with a visitor’s pass, ensuring that all visitor’s DBS/ID has been checked for safeguarding purposes.
- Receive, sign for, sort and distribute post/deliveries coming into the School.

**Requirements**:

- GCSE level or equivalent in English (A-C)
- Experience working in a busy office environment.
- Excellent Administration and Organisation skills.
- An understanding of GDPR.
- Good ICT Skills.
- The ability to prioritise and manage a diverse job role.

**About Creative Education Trust**:
Creative Education Trust was established in 2010 to work in England’s post-industrial and coastal towns and cities. We are now a network of 17 schools educating 13,500 children and young people.

We have chosen to work with schools in challenging circumstances. We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our students can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunity for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities.

Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and pro-active thinking so that our students are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.

**CET Benefits & Continual Professional Development**:
We have a wide range of benefits that you are more than welcome to explore further in our Staff Benefits brochure attached.

**Next Steps**:
**Essential Information**:
Creative Education Trust (CET) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers, workers and all other members of the school

community to share this commitment.

The CET Recruitment Policy follows the guidance set out by Keeping Children Safe in Education.

This post is exempt from the

Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.

**About**Ash Green School**:
**Ash Green School**
- Ash Green Lane, Ash Green, Coventry
- West Midlands
- CV7 9AH
- United Kingdom

+44 24 7636 6772

As a comprehensive school, we value all members of our community as individual people with differing needs and abilities. We work to provide a stimulating and caring environment, in which everybody can do their best.

Our status as a Creative Education Academy plays a very significant part in our day-to-day experiences. Creativity lies at the heart of all that we do.

**The journey to outstanding**

The school provides a well equipped learning environment.

There is a collaborative, positive and purposeful atmosphere amongst the team of staff at the school. All Staff expect each other to be the best that they can be. Our internal CPD programme is of a very high standard and meets a range of needs from newly qualified staff to established Curriculum leaders seeking whole school responsibility.

Ash Green has also embarked on a significant curriculum journey with a new Key Stage Four design that will deliver increasingly flexible routes for student learning. Our KS3 course is for two years, allowing 3 years fir KS4 courses.

We successfully fought for and opened a Sixth Form in September 2012. It has delivered excellent initial results. The students have already begun to demonstrate a visible ‘halo’ effect around the school. Their curriculum contains a careful blend of academic and vocational courses tha