Receptionist, Administrative​/Clerical

Job Title:

Receptionist

Location:

Newcastle, NE13

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity?
Join Persimmon Homes as a Receptionist and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

We're one of the UK's largest and most established house builders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year. At Persimmon, we don't just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Receptionist
, you'll benefit from:

• Competitive salary
• 5
  * house builder – Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• Bonus
• Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high‑street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
• Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development

This is an exciting opportunity for a Receptionist to work in our North East office based in Gosforth. The purpose of the role is to provide reception duties but also general administrative support where needed.

Hours:

9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday (one hour for lunch).

• You will also be expected to provide and perform general administration support to various departments under the instruction of the MD's PA.
• Receive and co‑ordination of deliveries to relevant departments ensuring that they are notified and to facilitate prompt collection.
• Responsibility for allocation, booking and co‑ordination of meeting rooms.
• Arranging refreshment for meetings and general set up requirements for meeting rooms.
• Post Duties
• Other ad‑hoc duties

Good written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent telephone manner
• Previous experience as Receptionist / Administrator, ideally in a house building background
• A proactive and personable manner
• Computer literate with experience of a number of different packages including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Ability to be well organised, self‑motivated with high attention to detail
• To be a team player