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Role: Workspace Services Receptionist/Administrator      Location: Farringdon & Southgate      Salary: £26,000 to £27,368

This role

As part of the Workspace Services team, who take pride in providing services within the office estate of MTVH, the Workspace Administrator/Receptionist will support and assist the Workspace Services Team in all general reception and administration duties.

You will be the welcoming face of our business, interacting with staff, clients, suppliers and visitors with a focus on improving building user experience. Duties include, but are not limited to;

Meeting & greeting visitors including organising appropriate hospitality, maintaining the visitor records system
Managing meeting room bookings and requests
Provide support to the Workspace Services Team to ensure offices maintain 100% compliance in areas of health, safety and planned preventative maintenance
Access control management, issuing & programming access cards and staff IDs
Postal functions (incoming and outgoing)
Order and maintain stock in relation to the workspace service provision
Process and prioritise work order requests from colleagues through a central helpdesk system

Attend team meetings and produce subsequent minutes / actions.
Provide support to the Workspace Services Team in maintaining supplier matrices and the associated documentation
To take reasonable care for the health & safety of yourself and of other persons who may be affected by your acts or omissions at work.
Manual handling
Whilst the home base of this role will be The Johnson Building (EC1N) a rota will be in place to work alternate weeks at The Grange office (N14 6PW)

What you'll need to succeed

Previous relevant operational office experience within the Facilities or Hospitality sectors
Demonstrable experience of excellent IT and Microsoft Office skills
Strong communications skills
Detail orientated and able to prioritise workload
Ability to work independently and as part of a team, influencing colleagues and building users where appropriate

Customer focussed with a proactive, flexible approach
Actively manages relationships that will ensure objectives are achieved

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What?s in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
An additional ?Beliefs day? once a year to have an extra a day off
Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
Cycle2work scheme
Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ?Serving people better every day? to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other?s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we?re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

Gender
Ethnicity
LGBTQ+
Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment