Customer service assistant and receptionist jobs

Harris Hill is delighted to be working on behalf of a well-respected national children charity to recruit a Facilities Assistant for its Salford office. This is an excellent opportunity to join a purpose-driven organisation in a varied part-time role, working 14 hours per week, where you will play a key part in the smooth day-to-day running of the office.

As Facilities Assistant, you will be the first point of contact for visitors, staff and volunteers, providing a professional and welcoming reception service. Responsibilities will include managing incoming calls and visitors, coordinating meeting room and taxi bookings, handling postal and courier services, supporting reprographics and printing requirements, maintaining stationery supplies, processing deliveries, assisting with office security procedures, and providing administrative support to the wider Property team. You will help ensure that the office operates efficiently, safely and to a consistently high standard of customer service.

We are looking for an organised and approachable individual with previous experience in a receptionist, administration, facilities or front-of-house role. You will possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, a professional and customer-focused approach, and the ability to manage a varied workload effectively. Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Outlook and Teams, is essential. This role would suit someone who enjoys helping others, takes pride in delivering excellent service, and thrives in a busy office environment.

To apply, please submit your up-to-date CV by 2nd July at 23:59.

Please note, only successful applicants will be contacted with further information.

As a leading charity recruitment specialist and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.

Assistant Support Worker

Hounslow

£28,683 - £29,487 

Are you passionate about making a lasting difference to the lives of vulnerable adults?

Our client looking for an Assistant Support Worker (known internally as Duty Worker) to join their team in Hounslow. The Hounslow LIFE service is a large multi-site service that currently has a staff team of 31 supporting 86 clients; covering specialism's such as Homelessness, Substance Use and Mental Health. The service focuses on supporting residents around their strengths and aspiration's for the future.

This is an exciting opportunity to join their new Assessment Hub team at Apple Tree Cottage, providing rapid assessment and support into appropriate accommodation to clients over a 28-day period, ensuring those at risk of rough sleeping and homelessness can be directed to services suitable to their immediate, medium and longer term needs. 

The role of a Duty Worker is to jointly manage the safe day to day running of the project with other members of the team and to provide support and advice to clients. 

• The first point of contact at Reception or over the phone for clients and visitors
• Responsible for coordinating the Health and Safety within the service with the support of the Service Manager. 
• Expected to regularly participate in team meetings and other ad hoc project groups as agreed with the management and team of the project.

Please note, due to the needs of their services, there is a requirement to work a shift rota, so flexibility is required. This will include some weekends and bank holidays.

For this role staff can claim an additional 20% pay premium for hours worked between 8pm and 8am Monday to Friday, and all hours worked on Saturday and Sunday. 

About you

You will have a passion for supporting some of the most socially excluded individuals in the borough and ensuring that they have access to the same opportunities as everyone else, within the wider community. To succeed in these rewarding roles you will have:

• Good communication skills with the ability to respond and interact effectively with residents and colleagues.
• Experience in following administrative procedures and maintaining clear and accurate records.
• Some experience of dealing directly with the public and/or clients or customers in a busy service environment
• Some experience of liaising effectively with a variety of people/agencies
• An understanding of the issues faced by homeless or vulnerably housed people – you may have had personal experience of homelessness yourself

This is a really crucial role within the service and would be ideal for people who are looking to develop their career in the sector.

Above all we are looking for inspirational, dedicated individuals; committed to our client's Recovery Ethos, and have a genuine desire to support people to transform their lives.

Closing date: 10am on 6 July 2026

Interview and assessments on: TBC

The Sheppard Trust provides homes for older women in housing need, and we support them to live independently.  We reduce loneliness and isolation by fostering a supportive community spirit.   

We're about to move to brand-new, purpose built accommodation near Hampton Court village in Surrey, with 60 one bedroomed flats and a range of communal facilities.  Our residents will live independently in their homes, with assistance to access the appropriate support services to maintain independence.We want them to live full and active lives in an inclusive, thriving community which is well regarded in our local community.

We're a small friendly team who care deeply about getting this project off to an excellent start and achieving our aims.  We operate with these values:  respectful, inclusive, conscientious, compassionate, honest.

We’re looking for someone proactive and flexible to help us for the first six months, as we set up the building, set up our new systems, and move everyone in.  This will be a really varied role where no two days are the same, and will be a mixture of administration and practical tasks.  You could be getting our staff kitchen set up, preparing the paperwork for a new resident, helping someone set up their heating controls or utility accounts, setting up and updating databases, answering queries at reception, logging maintenance tasks or helping with an event.

You might well have some housing experience already, or have worked with older people, but we also value transferrable skills, lived values and the ability to learn quickly.

An enhanced DBS check will be required.  This will be a fixed term contract from mid-July 2026 for six months.  We are open to offering this role on either a full time basis or an alternative working pattern of at least 25 hours per week.

You’ll bring:

· Confidence in organising and prioritising a varied workload

· Good administrative skills and ability to create and keep accurate records

· A proactive, flexible “can do” approach and the ability to “hit the ground running”

· Good communication skills with a wide range of people.

· a strong commitment to safeguarding and to respecting diversity and inclusion. 

We can offer:

· a salary of £26,000 - 28,000 per annum pro rata

· membership of the Social Housing Pension Scheme (defined contribution)

· a friendly and supportive working environment with strong values, good staff facilities (and free tea and coffee)

· lots of variety and a range of experience

· the opportunity to be part of setting up something brand new from the very start.

For more information please see the full job description and person specification attached.