School Receptionist

• Undertake reception duties, answering the phone, face to face enquiries
• Prepare meeting rooms and provide refreshments for visitors as required
• Ensure that enquiries by person, phone or email are dealt with promptly and efficiently
• Ensure that all visitors to the school are authorised and provided with security badges
• Answer the telephone promptly and politely
• Take and pass on messages to teaching and other staff
• Liaise with line manager to ensure that the reception area is covered during core hours
• Open and distribute incoming mail and emails, following up where required and ensuring an accurate and timely response
• Distribute information to parents in all forms of appropriate media, i.e., letters, emails etc
• Ensure the office keep medicines and consent forms up to date
• Ensure the relevant paperwork is in place to administer medication to pupils whilst on school site
• Contact the parents/carers of children who are unwell
• Ensure attendance registers are completed on Integris
• Collate school meal numbers and provide daily to the kitchen using Bromcom
• Keep a record of the children arriving late or leaving early, ensuring registers can be updated
• Ensure 'first day' response daily to parents/carers of children who are absent from school, reporting concerns to relevant staff

• Hold a current DBS certificate or able to obtain one
• Previous school reception experience is beneficial

Previous school reception experience is beneficial