Job title Residence Receptions Assistant
Department Student Living
Salary Starting from £22,728, rising to £23,581
Grade Grade 3
Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended
Placed on Thursday 10 October 2024
Closing date Thursday 24 October 2024
Interview date To be confirmed
Reference KW12127
Special Conditions A variable shift pattern, working 5 days out of 7, Lone working
Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)
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We are looking for a Receptions Assistant with excellent customer service skills to join our Residence Experience team. This role would be suited to someone with a friendly personality and someone who is eager to create memorable experiences for our students and commercial guests.
With over 5,000 bedrooms on campus and in the city, we operate multiple reception hubs for students, staff, visitors, and commercial guests. Being part of our team requires a level of flexibility and availability to work across a variety of locations and hours, You will work across all receptions on a 5 days over 7 day rota. The rota covers work on any of the 7 days per week between 8am – 10pm and therefore weekend working will be sometimes be required.
You will be the first point of contact, acting at all times in a welcoming and professional manner, respecting both diversity and equal opportunity. The key purpose of the role is to carry out receptionist duties and respond immediately to general enquiries, by phone, email and in person. You will enjoy working with a wide variety of people and be able to build good working relationships with other University departments and key stakeholders.
What we can offer you:Find out more about our benefits.
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
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Further details:Job Description & Person Specification
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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.