Receptionist - The Kingsway School
Contract: Permanent 
Closing date for applications:
30 June 2025, 12.00pm 
Receptionist - The Kingsway School
Contract type: Permanent- 37 hours per week, term time only plus 2 weeks (including 5 inset days)
Location: The Kingsway School, Gatley
Salary: Scale 2 Point 3-4 £24,027-£24,404 (Pro Rata £21,012- £21,341)
Closing date: Monday 30th June 2025 at Noon
Interview date: W/C 30th June 2025
Details of the Role
Are you a welcoming, organised and professional individual with a passion for working in a busy educational environment?
The Kingsway School is seeking a friendly and efficient Receptionist to join our support team, working across our busy split-site secondary school. You will be the first point of contact for students, staff, parents, and visitors, providing a warm welcome and ensuring the smooth running of front-of-house operations, ensuring that all policies are maintained, and government guidelines are followed.
Key Duties will be varied but will include:
• Greet visitors, parents, students and contractors in a professional and approachable manner.
• Operate the school’s main telephone switchboard; handle and direct calls and messages appropriately.
• Manage the school’s visitor sign-in system, ensuring safeguarding procedures are followed at all times.
• Provide administrative support to school staff, including photocopying, post distribution, and data entry.
• Liaise with staff and site teams to coordinate deliveries, appointments, and meeting room bookings.
• Support the wider office and pastoral teams during busy periods.
• Travel between school sites may be occasionally required.
• Any other administrative duties commensurate within band 2
The successful candidate will be organised and self-motivated, have a high level of accuracy and proficient IT skills. They will enjoy working in a team and be able to form strong relationships with team members and students.
For full details, please refer to the application pack, full job description and person specification attached.
Please return applications to: recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk
About ELT
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
• exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• opportunities for professional development and leadership
• a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
• Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.
It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).