Receptionist - The Kingsway School in Manchester

Closing date for applications: 11 February 2026, 12.00pm

Contract type: Full Time, Permanent + Term Time + 5 inset days

Location: The Kingsway School, Gatley

Required from: As soon as possible

Salary: Scale 2 Point 3-4 £24,796-£25,185 (Pro Rata £21,684- £22,024)

Interview date: TBC

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Details of the Role

We are seeking a friendly, organised and professional School Receptionist to act as the first point of contact for pupils, parents and visitors and to help maintain a safe and welcoming school environment. The role involves managing reception and telephone enquiries, supporting attendance and administrative tasks, following safeguarding and site security procedures, and supporting pupil welfare, including administering basic first aid (training will be provided if required).

The successful candidate will have excellent communication and organisational skills, a calm and caring manner, confidence using IT systems, an understanding of safeguarding or a willingness to undertake training, and a current First Aid qualification or willingness to train. If you are enthusiastic about supporting young people and have the skills to provide high-quality care in a school setting, we would love to hear from you.

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 ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place, which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across the school. This is in line with statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002 and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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.

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). Please return your completed form by the closing date to: recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk