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Broxbourne is a brand new purposed-built, luxury yet homely residential nursing home situated in the heart of the Lea Valley, providing outstanding quality of care for residents over 65.The home offers 77 magnificently stylish bedrooms, each equipped with ensuite shower room facilities.

Duties and Responsibilities

• To act as first point of contact to the Home by answering the phone and operating a small telephone switchboard – receiving and transferring calls, recording and passing on accurate messages where necessary.
• To deal with queries from the public and customers
• To monitor visitor access and maintain security awareness
• To provide general administrative and clerical support
• Receive and greet visitors and members of the public and respond to their enquiries, and escort them to their meetings etc.
• Receive deliveries and arrange for their distribution.
• Typing of documents including letters, minutes, charts, notices etc
• Keeping the reception area tidy and its notice boards up to date.
• Book transport as required.
• Dealing with post and distributing to relevant departments, people.
• Setting up meeting facilities
• Arranging for catering for meetings and daily office use
• Undertake all pre-employment checks (references, DBS, etc.) and proactively supporting the on-boarding process.
• Maintaining employees file records up-to-date by updating changes in employee detail or status in a timely manner.
• Arrange meetings, process confidential reports and documents, filing electronic and hard copy, tracking deadlines and taking action as required
• Additional administration duties may be requested from different departments

Requirements

• At least one year's experience of switchboard/receptionist duties.
• The ability to remain calm, helpful and courteous whilst providing professional services to callers, visitors, residents and fellow work colleagues.
• Good Time Management
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels and with a pleasant telephone manner
• An organized approach and good attention to detail
• Good IT skills including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint

What we offer:

• £10.50 per hour
• Refer a friend scheme
• Perkbox
• Paid annual leave
• Friendly teams
• Career progression opportunities within a growing company

If this sounds appealing to you and you believe you would enjoy working with us to make a difference in people's lives, please apply.