Job Title: Receptionist
Location: Bristol, BS20
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Receptionist and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.
Why Persimmon Homes?
We're one of the UK's largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.
At Persimmon, we don't just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Receptionist, you'll benefit from:
Competitive salary
Bonus
5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
Life Cover & Contributory Pension
Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development
What is the role?
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Receptionist to work in our Severn Valley office, Portishead, Bristol, the role is working on a part time basis, 20 hours per week. This role typically report to the Managing Director's PA.
The purpose of the role is to ensuring all paperwork in relation to Persimmon departments and regional offices are sorted and distributed effectively and efficiently.
What you'll do as a Receptionist
General reception/switchboard duties including ensuring that reception area is presentable and visitors are dealt with quickly and efficiently.
Receipt and co-ordination of deliveries to relevant departments ensuring that they are notified and to facilitate prompt collection.
Responsibility for allocation, booking and co-ordination of meeting rooms, together with good organisational skills to ensure provision of required facilities including refreshments are dealt with timely, efficiently and seamlessly.
To provide and perform general administration and secretarial support using own initiative and self motivation where necessary including utilisation of your good level of computer literacy and excellent typing skills thereby ensuring work is processed confidentially, accurately and to a high standard.
Assist in reception cover over holidays and when deemed necessary thereby maintaining first-rate telephone cover the highest standard of Customer care using excellent communication skills and resolving queries to a satisfactory conclusion.
Responsible for Feedback of incoming emails through Persimmon Internet site, ensuring that queries are dealt with and replied to effectively, efficiently and professionally.
General assistance as requested
What experience do I need?
Good written and verbal communication skills
Previous experience within an office environment
Computer literate with experience of a number of different packages including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
Ability to be well organised, self-motivated with high attention to detail
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