Receptionist

The Kingsway School
Foxland Campus
Foxland Road
Gatley
SK8 4QX

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

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

Closing date: Wednesday 11 February
Interview date: TBC

Required from: As soon as possible

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

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. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and the post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. 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.

The school is a member of Education Learning Trust, a local MAT incorporating two secondary schools and three primary schools. The MAT is extremely supportive of our school and its journey and provides significant capacity to the continuous professional develop its staff.

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 450 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.
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).

Should you wish to discuss this role further, you can contact Emma Sorsby School Business Manager on this email address:

Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form and associated documents and should include with their application a typed letter of application which details their suitability for this position relative to the person specification. CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

Please return applications to

The closing date for applications for this position is Wednesday 2026.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview after Monday 23 February, date to be confirmed.