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Job Title: School Receptionist & Administrator
Salary: Scale 3 (Point 5-6) £24,790 - £25,183 (Actual Salary: £20,684 - £21,011)
Hours: 36.5 hours per week

Are you a people person who thrives in a busy environment? Do you enjoy keeping things organized while being the friendly face that everyone relies on? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

We are looking for a School Receptionist & Administrator to join our fantastic team. In this role, you'll be at the heart of our school, ensuring everything runs smoothly while making sure every visitor, student, and staff member feels welcome and supported.

Your day-to-day will be a mix of meeting and greeting visitors, managing room bookings, handling important school processes like admissions and detentions, and keeping records up to date. You'll also help ensure smooth communication between staff and the leadership team, whether it's via email, phone, or our trusty walkie-talkies!

To succeed in this role, you'll need to be organised, tech-savvy (Google Applications are a big plus!), and able to juggle multiple tasks while keeping a smile on your face. Experience in a school or similar environment is great, but what really matters is your positive attitude and willingness to learn.

Why join us? Well, apart from the chance to work with a brilliant team, you'll be part of a supportive school community where no two days are the same. There are also opportunities to grow and develop your skills.

Sound like the perfect fit? Then we'd love to hear from you! Apply now and take the first step in joining our team.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, so all roles are subject to appropriate checks.

Why Join Us?

Thurstable is a forward-thinking and inclusive secondary school, dedicated to providing an exceptional education to our student body. We are committed to fostering an environment where students are encouraged to explore their passions and achieve their full potential.

The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff are expected to share this commitment.

Information about the School

THE SCHOOL A warm welcome to Thurstable School, a school built on ethos and with a clear aim of building knowledge and growing character. At the heart of everything we do lies our core values of aspire, respect and endeavour, values that are lived and not just laminated.

We are at an exciting time of our development as we strive to be a school of character and academic excellence and are looking forward to helping your child become the best version of themselves and achieve great academic outcomes whilst developing good character.

In the Summer of 2022 the GCSE results were “significantly above average” and in the top 20% of the country (Department for Education) and we are unashamedly clear that academic scholarship, reading and writing are at the heart of our curriculum.

We have the wonderful Thurstable Loves To Read programme as well as our innovative Morning Meeting programme based upon cognitive science and are committed that all students leave us with a reading age that matches their chronological age.

Equally important to our ethos is growing character and one of our mantras is “true character is doing the right thing when no one is looking”. We believe that character is taught, caught and sought and are committed to providing as many opportunities for the students to make memories from foreign exchanges, musical productions, Duke of Edinburgh schemes and numerous sporting opportunities.

We are committed to our mission statement of "Building Knowledge, Growing Character". We won’t get everything right, but we will always be honest, be led by our values and learn from the best schools in the country to make ours better.

OUR VALUES

Our core values ARE Thurstable. The values of Aspire, Respect and Endeavour are part of our DNA and inform all of our interactions and decisions at the school.

These values underpin our daily routines and are experienced in everything from the calm and purposeful atmosphere to the way our students interact with each other, staff and guests. We actively teach and role model these values and are very much part of our unique character curriculum.

We use the idea of 'Phronesis' to guide us. Phronesis is practical wisdom, a virtue which allows us to make the right decisions at the right time for the right reasons.

We expect our students and staff to use phronesis in their daily life at Thurstable.

ASPIRE

We aspire to the best jobs, college and university places We aim to achieve the highest outcomes possible We pursue excellence and seek recognition We take risks and love learning We are curious and ask questions

RESPECT

We respect ourselves, others and the environment We are respectful, polite and courteous at all times We are on time and we have the right equipment We treat others in our diverse community as we wish to be treated We always follow instructions: first time, every time We are kind

ENDEAVOUR

We work hard to achieve success We focus on the tasks in hand and tackle them conscientiously We have the resilience, tenacity and grit to keep going when others give up We represent the school and participate fully in school life We support others to achieve