Build Your Career with Persimmon Homes

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Receptionist and become part of a team where your contribution matters and your work helps keep a busy office running smoothly.

Persimmon Homes is one of the UK's largest and most established housebuilders, listed on the FTSE 100, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.

At Persimmon, we don't just build homes — we build careers. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced receptionist to join our front of house team at our PLC Headquarters in York.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Office Manager, you will be responsible for welcoming visitors, answering enquiries, managing communications and helping ensure the smooth running of the office. This is a part-time position requiring a professional, organised and flexible approach.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Work Mondays and Tuesdays, totalling 14 hours per week. Either 8:30am–4:30pm or 9:00am–5:00pm, Flexibility is required to provide additional reception cover during lunch breaks, holidays and other periods of absence.
• Welcoming Visitors: Greet visitors professionally, notify the relevant colleague of their arrival and ensure the reception area remains tidy and presentable.
• Telephone and Switchboard Management: Manage the switchboard, answer calls promptly and courteously, direct enquiries to the appropriate people and take accurate messages.
• Communication and Enquiries: Provide a high standard of service to internal and external stakeholders, responding to enquiries efficiently and professionally. Monitor enquiries received through the Persimmon website, forward them to the appropriate department and help ensure timely responses.
• Post, Deliveries and Meeting Rooms: Sort and distribute incoming post accurately and promptly, prepare outgoing mail with the correct franking and postage, coordinate deliveries and notify the relevant departments for collection. Manage meeting room bookings and arrange any required facilities and refreshments.
• Administrative Support: Provide general administrative assistance across the office, produce accurate work, maintain confidentiality and support the Office Manager with other duties as required.

Benefits

As a Receptionist, you'll benefit from a range of rewards and opportunities, including:

• Competitive Salary: A competitive salary for your contribution to the business.
• Life Cover: Benefit from life cover as part of your employment package.
• Contributory Pension: Support your financial future through a contributory pension scheme.
• Bonus: Access to a bonus as part of your overall benefits package.
• Employee Benefits Platform: Enjoy access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support and more.
• Diversity and Inclusion: Join an organisation committed to diversity, inclusion and empowering your development.
• 5 Housebuilder: Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction.

Required Skills and Qualifications

To succeed as a Receptionist, you will need previous office experience, strong communication skills and the ability to manage a varied workload while maintaining a professional and approachable manner.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Previous Office Experience: Experience working in an office environment, ideally in a reception or customer service role.
• Flexibility: The ability to provide additional reception cover during lunch breaks, holidays and other periods of absence when required.
• Communication Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a professional and approachable manner when dealing with visitors, colleagues and other stakeholders.
• Microsoft Office Proficiency: Confidence using Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Organisation and Prioritisation: Good organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks and manage a varied workload effectively.
• Personal Approach and Attention to Detail: A proactive, self-motivated approach, excellent attention to detail and the ability to handle confidential information with discretion.

Apply Today

If you have previous office or reception experience and are looking for a part-time opportunity within an established organisation, this could be the ideal next step.

As a Receptionist at Persimmon Homes, you'll play an important role in creating a welcoming first impression, managing communications and supporting the smooth day-to-day running of the York headquarters.

Apply today to explore this opportunity with Persimmon Homes.