Parkside Community College
Cambridgeshire
£20,929 - £21,945 per year
Salary:
Band 1 Support Staff FTE - £24,255 - £25,433 Term Time - £20,929 - £21,945
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
13 October 2025
Job overview
The Role
At Parkside Community College, our Receptionist is the first point of contact for all visitors and plays a crucial role in the smooth running of all reception operations. This is a busy front of house role within a supportive and friendly team environment.
The role will involve providing a warm and welcoming reception to all visitors, parents and pupils, both in person and over the telephone along with providing administration support to departments across the school. The role will include first aid cover and attending to the day to day medical needs of pupils (first aid training will be provided). A flexible attitude and the drive to make a difference is a must
Applications are encouraged from candidates with strong communication and administrative skills with excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office.
This is a term time only role with working hours of 8am to 4pm.
The School
Parkside Community College is part of the Cambridge cluster within United Learning and is committed to bringing out 'The Best in Everyone' through an education that develops rich knowledge and character.
Parkside Community College is a highly oversubscribed school with a long history of success and an excellent reputation for innovation in education. We are situated in three sets of buildings, with the main site, overlooking Parker's Piece, opening in 1913. We offer 120 places in each year group and believe deeply in the power of 'human scale' education, where every student is very well known and strong relationships help teachers to support their classes to exceptional outcomes. Our last inspection graded us Outstanding and our GCSE results in 2022 make us one of the highest performing schools in the country, within the top 1% of schools for progress.
Our intake is diverse: we have a large proportion of higher attainers on entry; we also have significant profile of Special Educational Needs. We have many students join us from overseas, with a range of ability in English in the main school.
We are committed to supporting our colleagues to be highly effective teachers: as well as department curriculum time, we develop our teaching as a whole staff every week, informed by Rosenshine's Principles. We have a behaviour policy that is consistent and enables colleagues to teach without disruption.
United Learning
Parkside Community College is part of United Learning, one of the country's leading multi-academy trusts. We serve more than 64,000 pupils and support around 10,000 staff in our schools, and we offer a growing range of additional services, including teacher training, professional development programmes, and a full curriculum package for schools.
Everything that we do is geared towards improving life outcomes for young people. We also believe in offering our staff 'more pay, more time and more support'.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be required for successful applicants.
We reserve the right to invite strong candidates to interview in advance of the closing date, so encourage early applicants.
About Parkside Community College
Parkside Community College
Parkside, Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB1 1EH
United Kingdom
'This is a small school where pupils enrich their understanding of a much wider world' – Ofsted, 2023
Parkside Community College is a small caring school situated in the very heart of Cambridge, with incredibly high expectations in all aspects of school life.
We are proud of our achievements in helping our students to thrive for excellence. Our GCSE performance in 2023 places us in the top 30 schools in England for progress. We are always looking to improve what we do. Our community helps us to remain a leading school in Cambridge and beyond. We expect all of our staff members, students, and parents to 'play their part' in making Parkside a great place to learn and to grow. We also place a great emphasis on our value of responsibility, on good citizenship and ethical decision-making in all years.
We are very proud to have again been judged 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in April 2023. The inspectors recognised that: 'teachers are happy'; we provide regular training to equip teachers with strong subject knowledge; we collaborate with them to ensure their workload is manageable; and we have established a highly inclusive ethos where all are welcomed.
United Learning Cambridge Cluster
We are part of a cluster of schools within the United Learning group: The Galfrid School, Coleridge Community College, Trumpington Community College, Parkside Community College, and Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology.
We embrace United Learning aim to offer a life changing education to children and young people, and we work as a team to achieve more than any single school could.
We share knowledge and resource within the cluster and the group to simplify work processes and manage workloads to achieve excellent results while improving work-life balance. As a cluster and as a group, we can look after our staff better.
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