Corporate Receptionist

  • Ref:
    103330
  • Location:
    York
  • Employment:
    Full time
  • Closing Date:
    30 September 2026

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Company name: Mitie 

 

Job Title:  Guest Services

 

Reporting to:   Guest Services Manager

Monday to Friday 0700 - 1600  £13.45ph

 

 

 

Our values and behaviours 

An individual's belief in our values and behaviours is as important as their technical and/or professional know how which is why our Job Descriptions are written with these in mind.  

 

 

Job objectives and responsibilities 

The ultimate goal of the Concierge is to deliver a seamless, discreet, and memorable Guest Experience and Concierge experience, embodying the highest standards of hospitality within a corporate environment.  To conduct oneself in a warm, professional and engaging manner and deliver The Signature brand standard service that exceeds expectations and creates a memorable 5* experience for all building users (visitors and colleagues).  To be an active and contributing member of the Guest Services team, ready to step in and support any area at any time and to go above and beyond expectations.  

 

  • Deliver an Exceptional Guest Experience: Provide a warm, professional, and personalised concierge-style service, anticipating needs and ensuring every visitor and colleague receives a unique 5* experience.  
  • Manage lobby and client areas: Own the Client lobby and spaces by monitoring access, managing visitor check-in/check-out, controlling queues efficiently, and maintaining a welcoming, visible presence at all times. 
  • Arrange taxis, car transfers, restaurant and hotel bookings, theatre reservations, and share expert knowledge of the local area, ensuring guests feel fully supported both on and off site. 
  • To be highly visible, always available and the “go to” person for queries 
  • To be immaculately groomed, approachable, and helpful always 

 

 

Main duties 

Experience:  

  • Operate under a “How Can I Help?” mindset, consistently providing proactive, attentive, and personalised service. 
  • Deliver a professional, friendly, and attentive experience for all visitors and colleagues, anticipating their needs and exceeding expectations. 
  • To anticipate the needs of visitors and colleagues  
  • To proactively look out for building issues, ensuing a swift resolution 
  • Proactively manage queues, striving to make the arrival or departure process as efficient as possible  
  • Be the face of the facilities team by providing tangible service that is visible and easily accessible  
  • Greet and acknowledge all visitors and colleagues in the lobby areas as they arrive/depart/pass by, ensuring they receive exceptional service  
  • Actively host in the lobby, offering visible and approachable presence while managing visitor flow to ensure a smooth arrival and departure. 
  • Build rapport with frequent visitors, senior stakeholders, and VIP guests, maintaining awareness of personal preferences and protocols. 
  • Provide informed recommendations on local restaurants, hotels, shopping, and cultural activities, tailoring suggestions to guest preferences. 
  • Arrange taxis, chauffeur services, or onward travel, ensuring seamless door-to-door journeys. 
  • Always conduct oneself professionally, with discretion, tact, and attention to detail. 

 

Process:  

  • Manage visitor registration, check-in/check-out, and access control in accordance with security policies, maintaining accurate audit trails and records. 
  • Support facilities inspections, floor walks, and proactively log and escalate work orders as required. 
  • Manage and respond to client queries in person, by email, or via online platforms, escalating to the appropriate teams when necessary. 
  • Maintain shared mailboxes, ensuring timely responses and proper filing of resolved queries. 
  • Order and manage stocks of visitor passes, stationery, IT peripherals, and other essential supplies. 
  • Maintain accurate records and provide daily forecasts to leadership on expected visitor numbers and special requirements. 
  • Ensure all tasks are completed in line with health, safety, and corporate compliance procedures. 
  • Support onsite facilities inspections, floor walks and service audits 
  • Proactively log work orders 
  • Triage colleague queries received in person, email and online, responding in a timely manner or referring them to the right team or self-service channels 
  • Ensure communication and follow-up on any problems, visitor or colleague requests, and special requirements 
  • Administrative tasks and ad hoc reporting  

 

Service: 

  • To support the setup of communal, event, collaboration, and meeting room spaces 
  • To support keeping collaboration spaces tidy and return furniture as per locally specified arrangements 
  • Learn, know and be able to provide visitors and colleagues with information on city maps and directories, restaurants and pubs, shops, in-house services and daily functions, cultural activities, religious activities, sporting events, entertainment activities, special attractions, doctors, medical centres, transportation options etc 
  • Utilise a “hands on” approach whilst ensuring the service delivery is at the highest prescribed standard  
  • Create, update, and display signage as required to guide visitors and colleagues efficiently. 
  • Conduct visitor arrival/departure check-in and check-out by managing and issuing access, in a manner aligned with a 5* service 
  • To escalate any feedback relating to the service provided by the service team 
  • Recognize by sight the identities and roles of all senior management (as advised by the Client from time to time), as well as build a good working relationship with the personal assistants of such senior managers 
  • Support the mailroom and associated processes, such as managing mail in/out, notifying colleagues of items for collection.   
  • Conduct regular checks of lobby areas, collaboration spaces, and communal areas, ensuring layouts, equipment, and furnishings meet the highest standards. 
  • Provide first-line support for Audio Visual and IT equipment in meeting rooms, escalating unresolved issues promptly. 
  • Deliver hands-on, personalised assistance to visitors and colleagues, including onward travel, concierge bookings, and local information. 
  • Monitor and escalate feedback regarding service quality, contributing to continuous improvement. 
  • Liaise with client Workplace Experience teams to support events, initiatives, and VIP hosting 

 

Security: 

  • Ensure all temporary passes are only provided to Client employees following confirmation of identity in line with Policies on security 
  • Instruct all Employees and visitors to clearly display their identity card and visitor pass whilst on Client's Premises 
  • Carry out daily audits of the visitor and contractor passes and reporting any not returned 
  • Support the Security team in responding to First Aid or Security incidents, and act as Fire Marshal when required. 
  • Maintain vigilance for any safety or security irregularities, taking appropriate action or escalating issues promptly. 
  • Report systems malfunction immediately to ensure swift resolution. 
  • Welcome and manage contractors on site, ensuring compliance with building protocols and security procedures. 

 

Partnership: 

  • Provide support to the wider service team as and when required  
  • To actively build relationships with other workstreams and partners, to ensure we are operating as OneMitie 
  • Provide ad hoc cover and support to other work areas and teams 
  • Complete any reasonable management request or task  
  • Deputise in the absence of your Manager or similar supervisory position 

 

Person Specification 

  • Proven experience in a 5* hospitality, corporate reception, or residential concierge role, with a strong emphasis on delivering outstanding customer service. 
  • Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage confidently and professionally with a diverse range of visitors, colleagues, and senior stakeholders. 
  • Immaculate personal presentation, consistently demonstrating professionalism, tact, and attention to detail. 
  • Confident and articulate communicator, with effective verbal and written communication skills. 
  • Proficient in administrative tasks, electronic record-keeping, and mailbox management, with the ability to process high volumes of queries across multiple platforms. 
  • Strong problem-solving skills, demonstrating initiative, accountability, and the ability to handle challenges calmly and effectively. 
  • Proactive, attentive, and solution-oriented, consistently anticipating needs and exceeding expectations. 
  • Highly proficient in Outlook, Word, Teams, and SharePoint. 
  • Competent in using visitor and space management tools, such as Condeco, Eptura, or similar systems. 
  • Awareness of health, safety, and security protocols within a corporate setting. 

Core competencies: accountability, personal organisation, prioritisation, initiative, customer engagement, communication, adaptability, and attention to detail. 

 

Working within the Mitie values and behaviours 

People Mitie is a people business. It's our people, and their drive to do their jobs to the best of their ability that makes us different. 

Trustworthy - 

We do what we say we will 

How we behave… 

  • We treat all colleagues with respect. 
  • We challenge people when they don't do the right thing. 
  • We welcome advice from anyone that might improve what we do. 
  • We are open and honest. 
  • We think safety and always follow rules for safe working 

Helpful - 

We go out of our way to make a difference 

How we behave… 

  • We work with each other to achieve the best for clients and for Mitie. 
  • We share information to help colleagues succeed. 
  • We build great relationships.  
  • Our first response to requests will always be positive. 
  • We look out for each other, never walking by unsafe actions or situations 

Inspiring - 

We help others to be the best they can be 

How we behave… 

  • We support and encourage each other to develop.  
  • We lead by example. 
  • We set clear expectations. 
  • We listen to and learn from others. 
  • We learn from mistakes and incidents to prevent recurrence 

Passion Take our people, add their passion, and you get something really special. 

Spirited - 

We give it everything we've got 

How we behave… 

  • We do good things for each other, the environment, and the community. 
  • We appreciate diversity and encourage it.  
  • We demonstrate team spirit. 
  • We are committed to doing things better and setting new standards in all that we do 
  • We take pride in what we do and have fun doing it. 
  • We celebrate success and say thank you 

Fresh thinking We want our people to find inspiration from skill development and career progression, and enjoy respect and recognition for a job well done. 

Pioneering -  

We do things that excite and amaze 

How we behave… 

  • We bring new ideas to the way we do things. 
  • We are willing to try new things. 
  • We encourage and support innovation. 
  • We consider things from other peoples' points of view. 
  • We embrace new thinking and technologies. 
  • We build health & safety into everything we do 

 

Health and Safety responsibilities 

  • Follow Group and company policies and procedures at all times. 
  • Report any apparent deficiencies in systems of work or equipment provided that may result in failure of service delivery or risk to health and safety or the environment. 
  • Use all work equipment and personal PPE properly and in accordance with training received. 
  • Report any issues or training needs to your Line manager and /or  via your divisional incident reporting system; 

 

 Note 

This job description Is intended to give the post holder an appreciation of the role envisaged for this position and the range of duties undertaken. Specific tasks and objectives will be agreed with the post holder throughout the period of employment. The job description may be varied from time to time by the Company to reflect changes in the post holder's role and/or the needs of the business. 

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.

Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.

 

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