Receptionist Halifax, England
Appleyard Lees
Full Time
Halifax, England
24022 - 27039 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Description
We are looking for a professional and friendly Receptionist to join our Halifax office on a 6 months fixed term basis. Reporting to the Buildings and Facilities Manager, you will be the first point of contact for visitors at our Halifax office and will manage telephone and email enquiries across all offices, so a passion for excellent customer service is a must.
Key Responsibilities
- Meet and greet visitors, clients and colleagues in reception and ensure the correct paperwork and sign-in process is completed
- Handle incoming calls and pass on messages where necessary
- Manage and prepare meeting room bookings
- Monitor incoming emails to the Facilities department and other email accounts
- Oversee the car park rota
- Handle daily incoming and outcoming post and deliveries
- Assist with the new starter and leavers process by preparing packs, creating ID cards and collecting equipment
- Monitoring and ordering of stock and stationary
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Professional and friendly manner with a passion for delivering high levels of customer service
- Good communication both written and verbal
- Confident user of all Microsoft Office programmes
- Organised and proactive attitude
- Ability to work in the office 5 days a week
Benefits
We pride ourselves on being small and friendly enough for you to get to know everyone – but big enough to offer you great career prospects. At Appleyard Lees you wont feel like a number or just another cog in the wheel, we understand everyone is individual and offer a friendly and supportive place to work and learn.
We also offer:
- 34 hour working week
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Voucher on your birthday and Christmas
- Annual salary review
- Life assurance
- Healthcare cash plan
- Social outings - summer party, Christmas party and more
- Charity events
About Appleyard Lees
Appleyard Lees is a leading intellectual property law firm with over fifty patent and trade mark attorneys and litigators across offices in Halifax, Leeds, Manchester, and Cambridge.
We provide a full range of intellectual property (IP) services covering patents, trade marks, designs and copyright in the UK, Europe and worldwide. We use our technical and legal skills, and many years of experience, to identify and protect IP assets and to uncover and eliminate the risks posed by other people’s IP rights.
Who we are, and what we do – but also, how we do it – makes us distinctive.
Our clients include some of the world’s most exciting innovators, largest companies, and household names, with a number of clients obtaining Fortune 500, Fortune Global 2000, FTSE 100, FTSE 250, and Forbes Global 2000 status. Our clients operate across a diverse collection of industries, including chemicals, retail, consumer goods, electronics, software, bio and life sciences, pharmaceuticals, metals, and heavy industry, higher education, and hospitality, leisure, and tourism.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) has always been part of the core values of Appleyard Lees. To us, diversity is not just a box-ticking exercise, it is a core part of our firm’s values . Diversity of people means diversity of ideas and perspectives, and these allow us to be more creative and flexible as a business.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) has always been part of the core values of Appleyard Lees. To us, diversity is not just a box-ticking exercise, it is a core part of our firm’s values . Diversity of people means diversity of ideas and perspectives, and these allow us to be more creative and flexible as a business.
We welcome the unique contribution that a diverse workforce will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.
