📍Location: Kirk Hammerton, York

🕓Hours: 15.5 hours per week (8:00am to 4:30pm on Thursdays, 8:00am to 4:00pm on Fridays)

💷 Salary: £10,680 per annum

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About us

Johnsons Nurseries is a three-generation family business located in North Yorkshire, equidistant between York and Harrogate, with over 100 years’ experience in growing and supplying millions of trees, shrubs, and plants to UK-wide planting schemes each year.

About the role

Are you highly organised, friendly and thrive in an office environment? We’re looking for a reception administrator to be the welcoming face of our company and provide an effective and efficient reception and administration service.

Your main responsibilities:

• Providing a welcoming front-of-house service, greeting visitors and reminding them to check in.
• Answering and managing incoming calls efficiently, taking messages and ensuring timely follow-ups.
• Providing refreshments for visitors and internal meetings.
• Handling all incoming mail, sorting and distributing promptly.
• Managing inbound website enquiries, logging them appropriately.
• Coordinating and managing meeting room bookings, pool car reservations and buffet/catering arrangements for meetings or events.

Read the full job description here

What we are looking for:

• Experience of working as a receptionist or front-of-house in an office environment.
• Effective communication skills (both verbal and digital) to liaise with colleagues and external visitors.
• An ability to multitask and prioritise effectively.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office applications.
• A positive, can-do attitude and a willingness to support wherever needed.

Read the employee specification here

Why work for us?

We genuinely believe we have one of the best working environments with stunning views over the Vale of York.

We currently employ a workforce of 120, rising to 150 seasonally across our three sectors: Commercial, Retail, and our onsite Trade Cash and Carry. We are proud of our low employee turnover and ability to identify, recruit and develop employees who go on to give 20, 30 or even more than 40 years service.

Benefits to working at Johnsons:

☀️Generous holiday entitlement

🕓Early finish on a Friday

🍕Food days

💷Annual attendance bonus

🅿️Free onsite parking

👫Employee referral scheme

🍧Ice lollies during the summer

💷Profit share bonus

🧓Pension fund

🚑Health Shield health cash plan

🍻Staff events

💳Trade Cash and Carry discount

💷Extra mile bonus

How to apply

If you like the sound of this opportunity and are interested in becoming part of our team, please send your CV  and a covering letter, clearly setting out how you meet the requirements of our job role (which are set out in the employee specification), to recruitment@johnsonsnurseries.co.uk by Monday 5 January 2026.

The full list of attributes for this job role can be found in our employee specification, where we have also identified how each one will be assessed; therefore, please check this carefully to ensure that your CV and covering letter address all of the relevant attributes we have set out.

Please note: if you do not provide a covering letter to support your application, we will be unable to take your application further.

At the moment, we do not wish to receive CVs from Agencies.