Receptionist
Contract: Part-time (two days per week), working term-time plus INSET days, 8am until 4pm with a 30-minute break
Salary: National Joint Council Pay Spine Point 4 (£25,185 per annum pro rata) Prorated salary, 15 hours per week, 39 weeks per year, £8,655 per annum

At The Ecclesbourne School, we are committed to providing a vibrant, supportive, and inspiring learning environment for our students and staff. We believe that every member of our community plays a vital role in achieving this goal. We are now looking for a friendly, professional, and organised individual to join our team as the first point of contact for our school.

About the Role

As the face and voice of our school, you will be at the heart of our daily operations, providing a warm welcome and efficient support to all visitors, students, and staff. This is a varied and rewarding role where no two days are the same.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Greeting all visitors, students, and staff in a professional and courteous manner.
• Managing a busy telephone, answering calls, taking messages, and directing enquiries appropriately.
• Handling incoming and outgoing post and deliveries.
• Providing general administrative support.
• Managing student sign-in/sign-out procedures for late arrivals or early leavers.
• Managing the sign-in/sign-out of visitors, issuing security badges, checking identity, and notifying the appropriate members of staff.
• Assisting with absence calls to parents and carers.
• Ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students.

About You

We are looking for someone who is:

• An excellent communicator with a clear, calm and friendly telephone manner.
• Highly organised, with the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Professional, discrete, and able to handle confidential information sensitively.
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office.
• A team player with a positive, proactive and resilient attitude.
• Empathetic and patient, with a genuine interest in supporting young people.

Previous experience in a school or a similar customer-facing reception is desirable, but more important is the right attitude and a willingness to learn.

Why Join The Ecclesbourne School:

• Term-time, part-time hours: Offering excellent work-life balance.
• Make a real difference: See the tangible impact of your work on the school and its students.
• Supportive environment: Join a welcoming team in a school that values and invests in its staff.
• Professional Development: Opportunities for training and career development within our supportive academy.
• Local Government Pension Scheme: Immediate memberships of the Local Government Pension Scheme with a high percentage of employer contributions.
• Wellbeing: We value our staff and recognise the on-going contributions they make to the continued success of the whole school.
• The school motto: ‘Integrity. Tenacity. Service.’ is at the core of school life.
• School admissions: Children of members of staff, with a minimum of two years’ service at the school at the time of application, are included in our admissions criteria.

The reward for working at The Ecclesbourne School is more than financial.

If you are interested in contributing to the future of one of the East Midlands’ leading schools, we look forward to hearing from you.

How To Apply

You will be redirected to our website on clicking apply to complete your application. Please note that we do not accept applications by CV.

When applying, please outline how your previous experience has prepared you for this role and what skills you will bring to it.

Closing date for applications is 9am on Monday, 10th of November 2025.

We encourage applicants to apply early as we reserve the right to close applications on an earlier date should there be a high number of candidates.

Our Commitment To Safeguarding

Our school is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students, and we expect all our staff to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment will be conditional on a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, references, health check and, where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain convictions are considered “protected”. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers and, if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice Website and on the websites of charities NACRO and UNLOCK.

Our Commitment To Equality and Diversity

As a school, we are passionate about diversity and recognize that as individuals we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.