Apprentice Receptionist - Furze Down School
Location: Buckingham
Overview
We’re looking for an ambitious, enthusiastic individual with a good attention for detail to join our Reception team at Furze Down School. You will combine work-based training along with achieving an Intermediate qualification in Customer Service Level 2.
As an apprentice, you’ll work at School and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff
What you’ll do at work
We have an established team who are friendly, knowledgeable and supportive. Everyone is driven to support our students in the best way they can. You will be able to grow and develop in an exciting and varied environment.
Alongside your study you will be undertaking the range of duties listed under Main Responsibilities
Term time only
Salary Type: Apprentice wage
Salary details: £6.40 per hour
Contract type: Apprentice
Hours: Term Time only (45 weeks), 37 hours per week (8.00-16.00 or 08.30-16.30)
Closing date: 29/11/2024 12:00
Interviews to be held: As soon as possible following closing date of 29/11/2024
About us
At Furze Down School our vision is to: Create a Centre of Excellence for Special Educational Needs through our Specialism in Communication and Interaction; Raise the profile and status of children with Special Educational Needs, and to give support to their families and carers; Inspire and empower children and young people with SEN to become ambitious and aspirational for their futures; foster curiosity and a love of learning alongside the development of the key concepts, knowledge, skills and attributes important to being able to flourish in life, learning, work and leisure
Website: https://www.fds.org.uk/
About the role
Main Responsibilities
• Maintain a secure, welcoming and purposeful environment which reflects the school`s ethos, visions and values.
• Manage the school’s switchboard, responding to internal and external telephone calls in a prompt manner, assisting callers with requests and enquiries and directing and filtering calls appropriately.
• To administer, without exception, the school’s signing in and out procedures and the school’s management of visitor protocols
• Maintain Inventry signing in system.
• Welcome and greet visitors in a professional, friendly and courteous manner
• Establish professional relationships with regular visitors, professionals and parents/carers
• In line with Safeguarding procedures, follow visitor protocols at all times
• Maintain the school diary, ensuring room bookings have been made and visitor protocols followed
• To be aware of the sensitive nature of information gathered during the course of duties and to maintain confidentiality at all times
• To maintain pupil attendance records
• To follow the school policy on Equal Opportunities
Please see Job Description Attached
About you
Please see Person Specification Attached
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below. Please send completed application forms to the email address below.
Tel No: 01296 711380
Email: [email protected]
Our school is wholly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment.
We have a legal duty of care for the health, safety, security and wellbeing of all pupils and staff.
This duty of care incorporates the duty to ‘safeguard’ all pupils and it is the responsibility of the Governing Body and the Senior Leadership Team to ensure that this duty is uncompromised at all times. In performing this duty, we recognise that there can be no complacency where child protection and safeguarding procedures are concerned.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020 and 2023).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance published by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
