Receptionist/Attendance Officer - Full-time

Riverview Junior School, Gravesend

• Ref:KCC886-2096-146S
• Posted:01/04/2019
• Pay:Kent Range 3
• Start Date:Immediate
• App Close Date:19/04/2019 at 10:00
• Interviews:Week commencing 23rd April 2019

Advert

Full-time (37 hours per week), 8.30am – 4.30pm Monday to Thursday  8.30am – 4pm Fridays term-time only, plus five Inset days.

Excellent opportunity for an immediate start.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and efficient Receptionist to be the positive and welcoming face of our school.  The role involves a number of responsibilities, including welcoming parents and visitors to the school and ensuring that they signed in and out of school, liaising with parents; answering the telephone and using your discretion to filter and re-direct calls where appropriate; taking messages and enquiries and ensuring that they are passed on to the relevant member of staff; distributing the post; dealing with first aid; monitoring our attendance registers, dealing with pupils who are late for school and calling home, emailing or texting using the school’s automated text message system when reasons for absence have not been received and liaising with our attendance service.

For these duties, you will be responsible to the School Business Manager who will oversee and direct your daily work.

The school uses SIMS, a school information management system, and you will be responsible for the accuracy of information held on the system.  While experience of using SIMS would be an advantage, the ability to learn how to use the system is more important, as full training and support will be given.  For this reason, you should feel confident in the general use of computers and will know how to use typical office software such as Word and Excel. 

Kent Scheme Salaries Range 3 £17,365-£17,411 per annum pro rata

(Equating to £14,700.72- £14,739.66 per annum)

Interviews will be held week commencing 23rd April 2019.

Information about the school

Riverview Junior School is a very popular four form entry Key Stage 2 school on a large site we share with the Infant School.

Our extensive site offers lots of opportunities for outdoor learning, including an outdoor library, two football pitches, MUGA, outdoor intervention area, animal farm and forest school, and we offer large well-resourced classrooms.

We are delighted to announce that our recent Ofsted inspection, carried out in February 2022, graded the school’s overall effectiveness as ‘Good’ with ‘Behaviour Attitudes’, ‘Personal Development and Leadership Management’ all being graded as Outstanding;.

We are now part of The Golden Thread Alliance and we work closely with the other schools in the trust.

The Golden Thread Alliance consists of nine schools: Culverstone Green Primary School, Fleetdown Primary Academy, Meopham Community Academy, Oakfield Primary Academy, Riverview Infant School, Riverview Junior School, Temple Hill Primary Academy, West Hill Primary Academy and Wrotham Road Primary School.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Andrya Norris
• Address:Cimba Wood, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 4SD
• Telephone: (01474) 352620
• Email: a.norris@tpat.co.uk

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