Receptionist (Maternity Cover)
Outwood Academy Easingwold
North Yorkshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- £12,261 to £12,453 actual salary (FTE £24,027 to £24,404)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- April 2025
- Apply by:
- 5 February 2025
Job overview
The Receptionist position is offered as a temporary maternity cover role, 22 hours per week, term time only (plus 3 days). The hours of work are 8am to 4pm Monday and Tuesday with a 3.30pm finish on a Friday. The role will start April 2025 for approximately one year or until the maternity leave ceases.
Your annual salary for working the above hours would be £12,261 to £12,453 (FTE £24,027 to £24,404) paid monthly over 12 months.
Outwood Academy Easingwold is an 'Ofsted Outstanding' Academy and we are seeking to recruit a friendly, professional and efficient Receptionist to join our business and administration team. This is a forward-facing role and the successful candidate should provide exceptional front-of-house service for our Academy. You must be approachable and welcoming along with having excellent organisational skills. The successful candidate will be confident and have great communication skills with an understanding of safeguarding children.
Duties include communicating with other academy staff to ensure pupils receive the support they require, dealing with queries from parents, composing academy letters, preparing items for postage and ensuring all visitors to the academy follow the sign in procedure and have the appropriate security clearance.
Outwood Academy Easingwold Offers:
- We are judged as Outstanding by Ofsted and the report published on 21st September 2022 said “Outwood Academy Easingwold is an aspirational and nurturing environment where pupils are encouraged to excel. Staff have the highest expectations of what pupils can achieve and ensure that they meet them.” They also stated "This is a caring community where pupils and staff value and appreciate each other." About our curriculum they wrote "The school’s ‘intrinsic’, ‘academic’, ‘enhancement’ and ‘elective’ curriculums combine to ensure that pupils receive an exceptional education."
- We are ranked 15th best state school in the North of England by the times newspaper for 2024.
- We offer a high quality of education for our students and excellent career progression and training for staff.
- We offer our colleagues extensive CPD opportunities.
- You will see the investment that has been put into the school infrastructure to provide an environment that is conducive to learning.
- You will find the staff and students friendly and welcoming.
- We have free, on site parking.
- We offer a cycle to work scheme.
- You will have access to a 24 hour online GP service as well as our Employee Assistance programmes.
- You will benefit from our family friendly policies and the opportunity for flexible working.
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Full training and support will be given for the right candidate.
When completing your application, please give due regard to the attached Job Description and Person Specification. Please note that all of the essential criteria listed on the Person Specification will be used to shortlist candidates for interview. If you do not demonstrate and/or evidence that you meet all of the essential criteria, you will not be selected for an interview.
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Please ensure within your application that your employment and education history are listed fully and in chronological order with any gaps explained. You must provide certificated evidence of your English and Maths qualifications.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss the role please contact Giselle Gilchrist, HR Assistant, at g.gilchrist@easingwold.outwood.com
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Closing date: Midday on 5 February 2025.
Interviews: w/c 10 February 2025.
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Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.
Attached documents
About Outwood Academy Easingwold
- Outwood Academy Easingwold
- York Road, Easingwold, York
- North Yorkshire
- YO61 3EF
- United Kingdom
Chief Executive Officer: Lee Wilson
Head of School: Emma Taylor
We are an “Outstanding” 11-18 academy, based in the market town of Easingwold in North Yorkshire, near York and were rated Outstanding by Ofsted in its report published in September 2022.
Part of the Outwood Family since 2018, we are a welcoming and supportive academy, with a relentless determination to provide the very best education for every child. We place students at the centre of everything we do, with a focus on ensuring everyone has the right to learn, with a curriculum designed to stretch and enrich our students’ experience. We champion routes into higher education providing a vibrant, supportive and largely academic sixth form.
Our Ofsted report published on 21st September 2022 said “Outwood Academy Easingwold is an aspirational and nurturing environment where pupils are encouraged to excel. Staff have the highest expectations of what pupils can achieve and ensure that they meet them.” They also stated "This is a caring community where pupils and staff value and appreciate each other." About our curriculum they wrote "The school’s ‘intrinsic’, ‘academic’, ‘enhancement’ and ‘elective’ curriculums combine to ensure that pupils receive an exceptional education."
Playing an active role in our local community is important to us and we regularly work with community members of a range of projects. Our sports hall and 3G sports pitch is also available for hire, giving the local community access to state of the art sporting facilities.
We have won numerous awards as a school and we have been accredited with the prestigious IQM Award, which highlights that inclusion at all levels is of paramount importance to us. We are also proud to have been awarded Silver Status by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health Award.
Our success led to us appearing in the Sunday Times School Guide 2020, where we ranked as the 14th best school in the North and the 235th best school overall in the country.
The Outwood Family of Schools pride ourselves on fully supporting colleagues within the Family both professionally and personally.
We work hard to ensure we reduce workload on staff, allowing more time in the classroom to put our vision of students first, raising standards and transforming lives into practice.
As a founding Trust of the National Institute of Education (NIoT), we will actively invest in your future through working closely with the Outwood Institute of Education and NIoT to offer access to a wide range of CPD opportunities, with all teaching staff receiving a minimum of two hours of CPD each week.
We also offer a generous employment package with a whole host of staff benefits, including family friendly policies, enhanced occupational benefits available (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave) with no qualifying period, funded CPD for qualifications up to and including Masters level plus other exclusive benefits including a partnership with car leasing company, Synergy.
All academies within the Outwood Family have gained the IQM Inclusive Schools Award with 18 having Centre of Excellence status and one holding Flagship status.
If you share our vision, join our family.
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