Knowledgeable and professional administrator skilled in providing support and customer service objectives. 14 years of experience managing front desk operations in the financial sector. Highly organised and friendly with strong planning, problem-solving and communication skills. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, spreadsheet management, and basic database administration.
I am currently working as a learning support assistant where I provide teaching support primarily in Key Stage 1, with a strong understanding of the educational environment and curriculum. Adept at fostering an inclusive environment and engaging students through positive reinforcement and phonics knowledge. This term I am beginning to gain experience in Key Stage 2.
I began as a middy meals supervisor, which led me to gain experience working in the classroom as a learning support assistant. My duties include:
• Offering constructive feedback to support students in achieving academic goals.
• Working with the lead teacher to diversify instruction for varied needs and learning modalities.
• Minimising distraction by creating and maintaining a clean, safe and organised classroom.
• Offering calm, focused conflict resolution, defusing problematic behaviour with compassion and emotional intelligence.
• Improving student engagement by providing one-on-one support and guidance.
• Encouraging students to work together to complete projects and solve problems.
• Helping to organise and supervise children in the hall, classrooms, and outside areas, encouraging good manners and supporting healthy eating and activities.
• Supervising, leading and supporting play activities.
• Helping individuals to make good behaviour choices in the classroom and at lunchtime.
• Dealing with minor first aid needs.
• Assisting with associated duties (e.g. cleaning up spillages, ensuring pupil hygiene)
• Providing supervision to guarantee the safety of students during group activities, events and school trips.
• Providing general administrative support to aid with the planning of lessons.
I began as an apprentice receptionist/administrator over 14 years ago. My position involved:
• professionally greeting incoming customers and providing friendly, knowledgeable assistance.
• Answered calls and helped resolve enquiries from clients, vendors, and the public.
• Keeping the reception area clean and neat to give visitors a positive impression of the company.
• Collecting and distributing incoming mail, employing strict confidentiality throughout.
• Providing clerical support to company employees, including copying, faxing and file management.
• Interacting with customers professionally by phone, email, and in-person to deliver accurate information.
• Effectively managing incoming and outgoing mail to maximise office efficiency.
• Liaising with customers to resolve enquiries, appointment requests and billing questions.
• Managing office supply inventory, performing stocktake duties and ordering additional supplies.
• Producing high-quality documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for internal and customer needs.
• Photocopying and laminating documentation for meetings and presentations.
• Organising physical files and digitised records to support ease of access and GDPR compliance.
• Enhanced administration system workflows by developing improved automated systems.
Numeracy and literacy skills
Student Engagement
Class administration
Classroom support
Behaviour modelling
EYFS and National curriculum knowledge
Classroom preparation and maintenance
Knowledgeable of Child protection and safeguarding guidelines
Office supply management and inventory control
Advanced MS Office and other database knowledge
Schedule Management
Customer Service
Data organisation and input
Managing file and data retrieval systems
Data Entry
Business writing and invoice development
Multi-line phone systems
Organisational, communication and interpersonal skills
Developing presentations
Front desk management