Receptionist and Administration Officer

• Be the first point of contact for all visitors, staff, and students, ensuring a welcoming and professional environment
• Answer incoming calls promptly and efficiently
• Manage visitor sign-in processes and ensure all safeguarding protocols are followed
• Prepare documents such as mail merges for letters, student award certificates, and SIMS reports
• Coordinate mailouts, produce address labels, and distribute communications via SIMS/InTouch
• Organise and maintain both paper and digital records, ensuring data accuracy and easy retrieval
• File updates and maintain student records within SIMS
• Manage and complete school reprographic requests within set deadlines, ensuring high-quality output
• Maintain equipment and supplies to support reprographics activities
• Open and distribute incoming mail
• Frank outgoing post and ensure the secure mailing of student files using Royal Mail tracked services
• Support the Admissions Officer in requesting and logging student files using MS Excel and SIMS
• Provide practical support to ensure continuity of critical tasks in the absence of other support staff
• Undertake additional duties as reasonably requested by the Headteacher and Office Manager

Strong customer facing experience

• A vibrant and exciting place to work
• A friendly and supportive environment
• An excellent CPD programme, with opportunities for action research and nationally accredited qualifications
• The support of a Trust that currently encompasses two Secondary Schools and one Primary School. Alongside Tiger Cubs, our term time only Day Nursery, for children aged 3 months to 4 years, with great benefits to education staff
• A well-resourced department with schemes of work and resources available
• An opportunity to join various schemes such as the Benenden corporate healthcare scheme