Facilities & Reception Administrator

LLOYD'S REGISTER INTERNATIONAL; Hove, Worthing; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension scheme

On-site parking

Free meals

Employee Assistance Programme

Staff discounts

Job summary

Lloyd's Register International is recruiting a Facilities & Reception Administrator for our site in Hove/Worthing. The role focuses on coordinating facilities services, reception duties, and supporting the Estates and Facilities team to ensure smooth day-to-day operations across hospice sites.

The role involves handling maintenance coordination, systems management, ordering essential supplies, vehicle servicing, and visitor reception, with a strong emphasis on accuracy, timeliness, and customer

Qualifications

• Experience in administration and facilities coordination is desirable.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating maintenance and contractor call-outs
• Managing facilities systems, records and reports
• Raising orders and arranging essential supplies
• Coordinating vehicle servicing and MOTs
• Managing reception rotas and timesheets
• Welcoming visitors and resolving enquiries effectively

Job description

Facilities & Reception Administrator SHG0293

Location Hove and Worthing

Vacancy Type Full Time/Fixed Term

Pay Range Grade 4 - £28,026 Pro rata for part time roles

Contracted Hours 37.5

Application Deadline Sunday, September 20, 2026

Job Profile document

Job Summary

About the role

The purpose of the Facilities and Reception Administrator role is to provide effective administration and coordination of Facilities services across Southern Hospice Group, supporting the day-to-day operations of the Estates and Facilities team. The role helps ensure facilities, reception services, suppliers, systems, rotas, staff records and operational tasks are managed efficiently and consistently across hospice sites.

You’ll be

• Coordinating maintenance and contractor call-outs
• Managing facilities systems, records and reports
• Raising orders and arranging essential supplies
• Coordinating vehicle servicing and MOTs
• Managing reception rotas and timesheets
• Welcoming visitors and resolving enquiries effectively

About us

Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.

St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.

Chestnut Tree House is the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life‑limiting conditions.

Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.

Benefits

• Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
• Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• On‑site education support and study leave opportunities
• Option to access Bupa and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
• Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
• Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in Service

We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people‑centric organisation like ours.

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Your application and interview should give us an accurate and authentic picture of your skills and experiences. Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Before you submit an application, we will ask you to confirm the information you provide is true and accurate.

Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.

Some of our roles are subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it may be necessary for a disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.