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Receptionist

Receptionist

Sheridan School

Norfolk

  • New
Salary:
£20,099 (£12 per hour) £23,400 FTE
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
31 October 2024

Job overview

There is no better time to start a career within our Administration team than now!


Would you like secure employment where you can progress your career?


If you would like to build a career that gives you genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment, then look no further and apply today!


Sheridan School are recruiting for a Receptionist to join our school. We are looking for enthusiastic multitasker, who is highly skilled and proficient in the use of Microsoft office, excel & word. The successful candidate who be a solution focused member of the team and be able to prioritise competing deadlines in a professional manner.

The main duties of this role will be front of house reception duties such as answering the phone as a first point of contact for queries, dealing with visitors that attend the school as well as dealing with deliveries. 


Our benefits include exclusive access to reward and discount scheme, comprehensive induction, commitment to your ongoing training and career progression, pension scheme, paid for enhanced DBS, wellbeing support, cycle to work scheme and more!


Sheridan School offers an integrated programme of education and therapy for young people with social, emotional and mental health difficulties, compounded by complex disorders including Autism. Age range for students is from year 4 to year 11 and the school is comprised of Primary, Secondary and ASD provisions.


As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress. 


The successful candidate will be able to adapt to company systems and have a good level of English and Maths to fulfil the role. If you can multitask and enjoy being part of a busy environment and have the following characteristics:


Communication – Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Positive working relationships, teamwork and communication play a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.


Organisation –You will need to be confident and organised in general office duties, minute taking and handling student records.


Attentive – No two tasks are the same, so being attentive to greet all visitors, answering telephone calls, booking in appointments, as well as scheduling reviews with other professions.


Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.


If you want to progress your career working in Education, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there.


Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.

About Sheridan School

  • Sheridan School
  • Thetford Road, Northwold, Thetford
  • Norfolk
  • IP26 5LQ
  • United Kingdom
+44 1366 726 040

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Sheridan School is a specialist school for boys and girls aged 10 to 16 who have social, emotional and behavioural difficulties with learning difficulties including autistic spectrum disorders. Many of our young people have experienced considerable disruption to their education as a result of their difficulties and may lack confidence in their own abilities. We aim to nurture and develop academic skills and self-belief through an integrated holistic approach centred on individual education, care and therapy to help our young people to thrive effectively in an ever demanding and complex society. This is achieved through personalised multidisciplinary assessments and highly individual education and care programmes.

Our ethos is grounded in valuing individuals in order to develop an appropriate profile of personal qualities and values including reflective thinking, self-belief and through engagement in a positive and appropriate curriculum to ensuring positive outcomes are achieved.

We provide:

  • A positive ethos which celebrates and rewards success and progress
  • A culture in which students feel safe, secure and valued
  • A multidisciplinary approach integrating education, care and therapy programmes
  • Individualised programmes for education and therapy
  • Small teaching groups
  • A framework where students can learn to take responsibility for the control of their own behaviours
  • High staff to pupil ratios
  • A tranquil environment where students can thrive

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