Reception & Admin Assistant

Leeds Safe Roads Partnership; Leeds; On-site; GBP 13,000 - GBP 15,000; Part time

Job summary

A local educational institution is looking for a Reception and Admin Assistant to manage the reception area and provide general administrative support. The ideal candidate will have strong customer service skills, be patient and humorous, and be able to effectively communicate with young people. Responsibilities include answering enquiries, greeting visitors, and maintaining efficient communication links. This position is a permanent, part-time role, based at the institution with a salary between £13,156 to £14,273.

Qualifications

• Ability to relate positively to young people.
• Experience in customer service.
• Fluency in English as per job description.

Responsibilities

• Manage the busy school reception area.
• Answer telephone and face-to-face enquiries.
• Meet and greet visitors professionally.
• Control the signing in system.

Skills

Patience

Sense of humour

Good level of literacy

Good level of numeracy

ICT skills

Understanding of safeguarding

Tools

SIMS software

Job description

Job title and organisation: Reception and Admin Assistant - Titus Salt School
Salary: Band 6 (SCP 7-11)
Actual Salary: £13,156 to £14,273
Hours: 22 (3 days per week). Actual hours of work: 8am - 4pm Wednesday and Thursday, 8am - 3.30pm Friday
Contract: Permanent - Term Time Only
Location: Titus Salt School
Closing Date and Time: Thursday 26 February at 9 AM
Required asap

This is an exciting and challenging role within our school and the successful applicant will have patience, a sense of humour and an ability to relate positively to young people, providing smooth and efficient running of the school’s reception and routine general administrative support.

The role will include working alongside other members of the team to manage the very busy school reception area and community entrance, answering general telephone and face-to-face enquiries, meeting and greeting all visitors to school in a professional manner, controlling the signing in system and ensuring efficient communication links for parents/carers, staff and other interested parties. Full training will be given in a wide variety of matters including contact with pupils, staff and parents/carers and extensive use of SIMS and related software. A good level of literacy, numeracy and ICT and an understanding of safeguarding are essential.

We are an 11-18 mixed comprehensive school with outstanding facilities, a state-of-the-art learning environment; we are extremely popular and oversubscribed.The school is within easy reach of Leeds, Huddersfield and Wakefield and the surrounding district.

Closing date:9am, Thursday 26 February 2026

Interviews:Thursday 5 March 2026

We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people in our recruitment procedures. We adhere to statutory guidelines in respect of safer recruitment though a variety of checks which will include online searches on all shortlisted candidates. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check and eligibility to teach/work in our school will be checked with the DfE.

This role is customer facing and therefore in line with the Immigration Act 2016; all applicants must be able to demonstrate fluency of the English Language to the level defined in the job description.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs, certain spent convictions and cautions are protected so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

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The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.
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