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Kingston Grammar SchoolKingston upon Thames
Kingston upon Thames
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- Full-time
- Fixed term contract
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- Monday to Friday
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Kingston upon Thames
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Salary:
Competitive salary with generous benefits
Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Start date:
6 January 2025
Apply by:
8 November 2024
Job overview
We have a great opportunity for a personable and pro-active individual to join the Sixth Form Centre as a School Receptionist to cover a period of maternity leave starting in January 2025.
Life in the Sixth Form at Kingston Grammar School is exhilarating, challenging, and rewarding.
These two important years offer a chance for students to develop and grow as a person and KGS can help students to seize that opportunity by teaching a broad range of both academic subjects and life skills. With plenty of sporting and other co-curricular activities also on offer, we create an environment in which our students achieve superb examination results, whilst also developing their personal and leadership skills. Students leave KGS with the confidence and resilience to succeed and be happy in the outside world.
The School Receptionist for our Sixth Form Centre is the first point of call for visitors to the Sixth Form Centre for students, staff and visitors. As a representative of the school, the receptionist should be welcoming, personable, helpful and with a professional and friendly manner. In addition, it is essential that the person for this role is organised, able to multitask, work flexibly and has a ‘can do’ approach to work.
The receptionist is also required to assist the Attendance Lead with cover for student registration and will have responsibility for other student related administrative duties.
The successful candidate will ideally have previous experience of working in a customer service role, have excellent communication skills and be a team player with the initiative to work independently.
The role is offered on a term time basis, working 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday, 8am until 4pm for a fixed term contract of up to twelve months. A competitive salary and generous benefits accompany this role.
For further information and to apply, please visit the vacancies section on the School's website via the Apply button.
Closing date: 9.00am on Friday 8th November 2024
The school reserves the right to commence the interview process at any time prior to the closing date so early application is recommended.
Prior to interview, an online search will be conducted to identify any past or current incidents or issues that might affect your suitability to work with children and undertake this role. This is in line with guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Please note this online search will be carried out only on publicly available information and be limited to issues relating to your suitability to work with children and/or in a school environment. Issues that arise will not automatically be a bar to your employment at this school.
Kingston Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Registered Charity No. 1078461.
About Kingston Grammar School
Kingston Grammar School
70 London Road, Kingston upon Thames
Surrey
KT2 6PY
United Kingdom
+44 20 8546 5875
Kingston Grammar School is a leading day school for boys and girls aged 11-18 in South West London. Founded in 1561, it is one of the most successful co-educational schools in the country, and has a long tradition of developing individual talent and encouraging high aspirations.
Students are bright and enthusiastic; their joy in life and spirit of curiosity makes education here a real pleasure.
At KGS we seek to equip students with the skills and confidence they need to innovate, not replicate and the results at GCSE and A Level place us in the top 1% of secondary schools in the country. In the unusual year of 2021, 71% of all GCSE grades were at 8/9 and 43% of all grades were at 9. For A Level last year, 74% of grades were A*-A and 35% were at A* or equivalent.
We believe that education should be holistic - strong both academically and pastorally - and should produce happy and engaged students who will make a positive difference to the world around them now and in the future. Students are encouraged to support each other throughout their time at KGS, either in the academic, pastoral or co-curricular sphere.
We are rightly proud of our pastoral provision and it is widely acknowledged to be one of the best in any school in the UK.
Our co-curricular programme plays a central part in this. The opportunity to engage in an extraordinary range of trips, expeditions and activities allows pupils to develop their self-awareness, skills and competence in all sorts of ways and contributes significantly to the rounded individuals they become.
For many, the world outside the formal academic curriculum will provide the key to their future lives. The book Physical Education and Sport in Independent Schools (2012) by Malcolm Tozer contains a survey of the number of sporting internationals to have come from Independent Schools since 2000.
Kingston Grammar School is ranked equal fifth, and third for Olympians – quite an achievement for a school of our size.
You will also find a strong tradition of theatre, art and music here, with Old Kingstonians making their mark on the stage, in performance and in all aspects of the design world. For all our pupils, whatever their skill or ambition, the opportunities we provide both inside and outside the curriculum are enriching and empowering. Staff give generously of their time to support and make possible all these ventures.
The School's position in the heart of Kingston upon Thames benefits from excellent transport links. With easy accessibility to the metropolitan diversity of central London,and its wealth of cultural opportunities,
students benefit from what our urban location offers.
Our 22-acre sports grounds and boat house on the River Thames, opposite Hampton Court Palace, is the home of KGS Sport. We are particularly renowned for our success in hockey and rowing and as a school we are ranked fifth for producing sporting internationals, and third for Olympians.
Our aim has always been to produce happy, well-adjusted young adults who want to make the world a better place, and we hope that an education at KGS is a significant step towards this.
For more information about Kingston Grammar School please visit our School website at www.kgs.org.uk