Relief Receptionist
| Posting date: | 07 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £13.85 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 January 2026 |
| Location: | Ilford, IG2 6JH |
| Company: | Jewish Care |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 2997 |
Summary
Are you a warm and professional communicator with a passion for excellent customer service? We are looking for a friendly and efficient Receptionist to be the welcoming face of our care home. In this pivotal front-of-house role, you will ensure that every visitor, resident, and colleague receives a first-class service and a positive experience.
You’ll be a key member of our reception and administrative team, helping to create a safe, welcoming, and well-organised environment for everyone who visits or works at the care home. Your role will involve a variety of reception and administrative tasks to support the smooth running of the home.
This post is for a Relief/ Bank Receptionist working on an as and when required basis to cover absence.
What you will be doing:- Answering all telephone enquiries in a professional, helpful, and timely manner to agreed standards.
- Ensuring all visitors to the Unit are given appropriate information in a courteous and timely fashion to agreed standards.
- Monitoring the CCTV operations on the site to ensure security is maintained.
- Ensuring the reception area is welcoming, tidy and always contains appropriate visitor information to agreed standards.
- Inputting data onto the Unit’s computer system to set timescales and accuracy.
- Supporting the Manager and Administrator in undertaking specific administrative and clerical tasks as and when required.
- Experience working in professional administration departments or in a similar role.
- Business Management/Administration or similar qualifications.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, both with company information and staff information.
- Strong Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word knowledge.
- Self-motivated and with a desire to improve systems within the business.
- Be a Team player.
- Ability to work under pressure and do multiple tasks.
- Commercial awareness and can do attitude.
- Can do attitude.
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