Temporary Receptionist

Position: Temporary Receptionist
Location: Abingdon (OX14)
Salary: £15.00 per hour
Hours: Monday – Friday (08:30 – 17:00)
Experience: Reception, Receptionist, Customer Service, Office Work, Front of House, Office Support, Administration, Serviced Offices, Temporary, Temp Work

The Opportunity

Thompson & Terry Recruitment are proud to be working alongside our award-winning and rapidly expanding commercial property client to recruit a Temporary Receptionist to support their Abingdon-based business centre.

As Receptionist, you will be responsible for welcoming all tenants and visitors to the centre, handling inbound calls and emails and transferring/passing on messages where relevant, booking meeting rooms for clients and other general administration. It is really important for this role that the successful candidate breeds enthusiasm and confidence and can greet everyone with a smile!

This Abingdon-based job is an excellent mix of reception duties, customer service, and administration, so it would be really well suited to a candidate who has previous experience working in a customer or client-facing role.

It is vital for this role that the successful candidate can work independently, think on their feet, have great communication skills, and have the ability to work collaboratively with the Business Centre Manager.

The Company

As an award-winning employer, Thompson & Terry Recruitment’s client really invests in employee experience and, as a result, provides thorough and engaging training to encourage the development of all their staff with progression opportunities available too. Additionally, company culture is really important to our client, and so they often organise regular social events for the entire company and within the centre too!

Our client provides tons of benefits, including a competitive holiday allowance with 25 days plus all Bank Holidays and three additional days off paid leave over the Christmas period. Additionally, they provide healthcare plans for all employees, shopping cashback schemes, gym discounts and cycle-to-work programmes!

Requirements

* Available to start immediately

* Passionate about customer service excellence

* Strong in-person and telephone communication skills

* Quick thinking, able to use your own initiative and resilient to change

* The ability to manage a heavy workload and provide support to your line manager

* Ambitious to learn and take on responsibilities outside your comfort zone

Thompson & Terry Ltd, trading as Thompson & Terry Recruitment, are an Abingdon-based recruitment agency specialising in placing candidates into roles across Oxfordshire and beyond. We typically recruit for Office Administration Jobs, Sales Jobs, Marketing Jobs, Biotech Jobs, and Executive Search appointments.

No terminology used in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals.

If you have any accessibility requirements or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process, please let us know.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a high volume of applications, if you have not heard from us within 5 working days, unfortunately, your application has been unsuccessful at this time
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed