Receptionist - Part Time (EHA1501-0817)

Make a difference, every day, to the lives of our students.

About You

With a flexible and enthusiastic attitude, you will quickly become a key member of our friendly team. You will have previous experience of working on a busy reception or helpdesk liaising with members of the public, handling cash and working as a team member along with excellent communication skills and a good level of IT knowledge.

About the Role

Edge Hill Sport has an outstanding reputation for the quality of facilities and the wide range of activities available and is looking to recruit individuals with a positive attitude who will add to this environment and develop excellence in their role.

Working as part of the front line Customer Service Team, you will have a specific role to play as the first point of contact for many of the centre's users in both an administrative and service capacity, dealing with customer queries, answering the telephone and other administrative duties. 

This is an excellent opportunity for your customer care skills to shine as you act as the first point of contact for customers in a busy and highly successful sports facility.

Rewards/Benefits

We want you to feel happy when you come to work and proud when you go home.

From the moment you join us you have the opportunity to enhance your skills. We offer a range of specialist development sessions or courses and an award winning staff health & wellbeing programme (HR Excellence Awards 2017). This means as well as opportunities to attend interactive sessions like ‘Presenting with impact’ or ‘Preparing for progression & success’ you are able to have a lunchtime stroll across our beautiful campus, book to get a trim from our onsite hairdresser, your car valeted, or get together with colleagues over free food and drink to watch the latest film on one of our Film Nights and so much more.

This is just a taste of what we are able to offer you at Edge Hill University.

About Us

Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact: Sarah Burns, Front of House Supervisor at burnssa@edgehill.ac.uk

Closing Date: 14 Aug 2017
Category: Administrative, Technical, Professional & Research Support