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Receptionist – Reach Oldham
£14 per hour | Monday–Friday | 8 hours per day
Full Fluency in English Required | SIA Licence is Mandatory
Reach Oldham is seeking a warm, organised, and highly professional Corporate Receptionist to become the friendly face of our building and the first point of contact for visitors and staff. This is a role for someone who takes pride in creating a calm, welcoming atmosphere while keeping everything running smoothly behind the scenes.
What You'll Do
In this front-of-house role, you'll be responsible for ensuring that every visitor receives a polished and positive experience. You'll play a key part in the daily flow of the building by:
1. Greeting visitors with confidence and care, ensuring they feel welcome
2. Managing access points and maintaining fob systems
3. Handling phone calls, emails, deliveries, and daily correspondence
4. Maintaining a tidy, professional, and well-presented reception area
5. Issuing visitor and staff passes and supporting building security
6. Coordinating the opening and closing of the building
7. Assisting during emergency procedures
8. Managing documents, organising records, and ensuring smooth administration
9. Ordering supplies and providing general office support where needed
Your attention to detail and calm approach will help create an environment that feels both secure and welcoming.
What We're Looking For
The ideal candidate will be:
10. Friendly, approachable, and confident when supporting visitors
11. Professional at all times, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
12. Highly organised with strong attention to detail
13. Comfortable using IT systems and managing multiple tasks
14. Able to prioritise workloads and meet deadlines
15. Well-presented, reliable, and dedicated to delivering exceptional service
16. In possession of a valid SIA licence (essential for this role)
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10, - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .