📍Location: Kirk Hammerton, York

🕓Hours: 39 hours per week (8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Wednesday, 8:00 am to 4 pm on Thursday and Friday)

💷 Salary: £26,000-£28,000 (depending on experience)

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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 proactive Reception & Office Administrator to be the welcoming face of our company and a key part of our day-to-day operations.

This is a varied role that combines reception duties with essential administrative support across multiple departments — ideal for someone who enjoys multitasking, solving problems, and working with people at all levels.

Your main responsibilities:

• Providing a front-of-house service, greeting visitors and reminding them to check in.
• Answer and manage incoming calls efficiently, taking messages, and ensuring timely follow-ups.
• Manage inbound website enquiries, logging them appropriately and providing regular reports as needed.
• Coordinate and manage meeting room bookings, pool car reservations, and buffet/catering arrangements for meetings or events.
• Supporting general administration across multiple departments, including Sales, Operations, Accounts, and more.
• Assisting with office management tasks, such as liaising with service providers, and keeping shared spaces tidy and well-prepared.

View the full job description here

What we are looking for:

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

View the full 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 Sunday 9 November 2025.

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.