Birkenhead School, awarded the Sunday Times Independent Secondary School of the Year in the North West for 2025, was founded in 1860. It is an HMC independent day school providing education for boys and girls drawn from the whole of the Wirral, Liverpool and as far afield as Chester and North Wales. Situated in the leafy suburb of Oxton, the School enjoys excellent facilities. The main campus has a village green atmosphere, with classrooms and laboratories looking out over the cricket square. A key feature of the School is its strength of community, which runs through the student, staff and parental bodies. The School is embedded within the wider Wirral community, and has strong links with local businesses and charities. T he School aims to inspire students both inside and outside the classroom, knowing each individual and providing them with outstanding opportunities to find their niche. Birkenhead School recruits on attitude as much as the quality of an individuals qualifications on paper, an approach that has played a considerable role in the winning of the Sunday Times award in short, staff go above and beyond.
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The Role and Responsibilities The Seniors reception is a busy office within the wider Administration team of the School. The main purpose of the team is to provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative assistance, ensuring the smooth and efficient running of the School and acting as a main contact person for all parents and visitors. There will also be other general administration duties including updating student data with regard to attendance on the school system.
Key Responsibilities:
Reception
The provision of a first-class reception service including the efficient and courteous management of incoming telephone calls and visitors
Controlling access to the School and issuing appropriate badges to visitors and contractors
Being a primary telephone operator and relay messages throughout the School
Assisting with clerical arrangements for orders, checking and signing for deliveries/receipt of services
Administration
Updating the daily student attendance data accurately and producing reports as required
Assisting with student welfare matters, including contacting parents and staff
Providing clerical support including photocopying, scanning, laminating, binding, filing, email and answering routine correspondence
Providing administrative support to the Senior Leadership Team
Undertaking typing and word-processing as required
Maintaining manual and computerised records including all parental on-line updates/SEN updates
Dealing efficiently with incoming and outgoing mail on behalf of the School
Assisting the Senior Office Administrator with administration of trips, ensuring all necessary paperwork is completed
Ensuring adequate stocks of all stationery for office and departmental use are kept
Managing the maintenance and effective running of the office machinery and ordering consumables as necessary
Maintaining confidentiality and exercising tact as needed
Performing any other reasonable duties as specified by the Line Manager
Admissions
Assisting with Open Days and any other events associated with admissions
For the full list of responsibilities and skills required, please see the Information for Candidates, available on the School website under Employment Opportunities.
This is a full-time, term-time post of 40 hours per week working 36 weeks per year, usually between the hours of 8.00am and 6.00pm.
We will value and support your contribution to School life and in return provide you with excellent rewards; Working with fantastic young students
Working as part of a committed team
Term time is 34 weeks
Discount on School Fees for permanent members of staff
Free use of the fully equipped on-site gym
Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
Support for your continuous professional development
Lunch provided during term time
Electric Car charging points on site
To meet our safeguarding obligations, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is undertaken as part of the recruitment process for all new staff. As Birkenhead School is an educational provider, it is permitted to ask whether an applicant has any convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings which would not be filtered in line with current guidance, as defined by The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). It is a criminal offence for an individual who is barred from working with children to apply for a role which is classed as regulated activity.
The closing date for applications: 9.00am on Friday 1st August 2025
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