Part Time Receptionist – London

Salary: £26,000 per year

Part Time Receptionist – Permanent

London N7

25 hours per week, 1.00pm-6.00pm Monday to Friday

This is a permanent contract with a three-month probationary period. The post is part time based on 25 hours per year. The salary will be £26,000a year (full time equivalent £23,303 a year

Your duties will include:

• Being the first point of contact for visitors to the centre; welcoming them and issuing name badges and ensuring that everyone signs in, announcing their arrival and directing them to the appropriate tenant organisation or meeting room.

• Ensuring security procedures are followed in the centre, and that all building visitors/contractors sign in/out.

• Taking deliveries of the Royal Mail post, sorting and distributing it to tenant organisations and ensuring that outgoing post is collected every evening.

• Notifying tenants when deliveries arrive in the building.

• Answering phones and directing calls to relevant staff or tenants

• Acting as a point of contact for tenant queries and communicating these effectively to the relevant member of the Property Management team

• Helping to establish and maintain excellent communication with tenant organisations

• Ensuring an effective handover is made between shifts

• Maintain a log of desk bookings.

• Solve or redirect queries efficiently.

• Assisting with administrative duties

• Ordering cleaning/stationary supplies for the cluster and keeping an accurate record in the purchase order / tenant recharge sheet;

• Run monthly photocopier and Franking machine reports and forward to finance department.

• Covering for other members of the reception team when they are in training, on holiday, etc

• You are a welcoming, proactive, friendly, and organised person, who enjoys the challenges of being the first point of contact.

Skills needed

• Excellent communication skills and experience of communication with different groups of people

• The ability to act quickly and effectively using their own initiative

• To be a team-player

• Have good IT skills, particularly Microsoft Office software

• Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise his/her work, multi-task and remain flexible

• To be trustworthy, personable and reliable

Benefits include 25 days holiday entitlement pro-rata for the first year in addition to all public bank holidays. They offer a 3% to 7% company contribution to a pension, a free company bicycle scheme with bicycle maintenance costs, season ticket loans, interest free personal loans, as well as other benefits.