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A clean header band with your contact details: as polished as a good front desk.
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For receptionists and front-of-house staff in offices, GP surgeries, dental practices, hotels, salons and gyms.
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What to put on a receptionist CV
Receptionists are the first person visitors, patients and callers meet. Employers look for a warm, professional manner, a calm head when it is busy and accuracy with bookings, messages and confidential information.
Say which kind of front desk you know. A GP surgery looks for clinical systems and care navigation, a hotel for check-ins and a booking system, and an office for switchboard and visitor management.
Whatever the job, the UK CV format applies: your name and contact details, a short profile, experience with the most recent first, then education and skills. No photo, age or date of birth.
A profile with your setting
Office, medical, dental, hotel, salon or gym, and what you are known for: a friendly welcome, keeping a busy diary under control, handling difficult callers.
Front desk duties
Switchboard and call handling, greeting and signing in visitors, meeting rooms and diaries, post and couriers, message taking, and opening and closing up.
Systems
EMIS Web or SystmOne in GP surgeries, dental and salon booking software, hotel property management systems, visitor management tools and Microsoft 365.
Confidentiality
How you handle patient, client or guest information under GDPR, for example checking identity before sharing details.
Training
Care navigation for GP receptionists, first aid, fire warden and conflict resolution.
Skills and keywords for a receptionist CV
From our skills guides and CV examples for this job. Use the ones that are true for you, in the words of the job advert, so recruiters and applicant tracking systems find them.
- Switchboard and call handling
- Visitor management
- Meeting room and diary booking
- Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Teams)
- EMIS Web
- Care navigation
- Message taking
- Post and courier handling
- Data entry
- Confidentiality and GDPR
- Handling difficult callers
- Patient registration
- Fire warden duties
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Receptionist CVs: your questions
What should a medical receptionist put on a CV?
The clinical systems you know (such as EMIS Web or SystmOne), patient registration, appointments, repeat prescription requests and any care navigation training, plus how you handle confidential information and upset callers.
How do I write a receptionist CV with no experience?
Show customer-facing work, such as retail, hospitality or a call centre, and the organised side of you: bookings, cash, rotas or school admin. Mention your IT skills and say you are confident on the phone.
Is a receptionist CV different from an admin CV?
They overlap, but a receptionist CV leads with people and the front desk: visitors, calls, bookings and first impressions. An admin CV leads with systems, records and processes. If the job mixes both, as many do, give each its own bullet points.
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