Assistant Librarian

Sandringham School, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL4 9NX

Deadline is today

• Start date details

  preferably on 1st September 2025

• Closing date

  14 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  3 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12,676.00 - £12,872.00 Annually (Actual) H3 pro rata, actual annual salary based on 22 hours per week, term time only (38 weeks). Full time salary range £25,496 - £25,889.

Assistant Librarian job summary

20 to 22 hours per week, to be worked on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday ideally. Flexibility around starting and finishing times will be preferable.

Term time only (38 weeks)

Salary: H3 pro rata, FTE annual salary £25,496 - £25,889

Actual salary: £12,676 - £12,872 ( based on 22 hours a week)

Start date: preferably on 1st September 2025

We are looking for an Assistant Librarian to join our Learning Resource Centre team (LRC). At Sandringham, the LRC is the crux: a recently built centre for exploration, curiosity and passion for reading and understanding topics, issues, and the world. Through reading, we believe students access the curriculum, unlocking their understanding. The purpose of professionals in the LRC is to support each individual, to capture their interest, to challenge their understanding and to instil a value for reading and discovery. To be successful you will be a team player, have an interest in books and children’s literature, with the ability to pick up new tasks quickly, computer literate, have excellent attention to detail, great communication skills and a positive attitude. Key tasks include assisting with class visits, recommending books, processing and cataloguing books, creating displays and general administration tasks. A professional library qualification will be advantageous but is not essential. Times and hours across the days to be negotiated. Please refer to the job description for further details.

The successful candidate will:

• be committed to working in the interests of students
• possess an aptitude for reading and learning
• have professional integrity
• have the ability to work well within a team
• promote Sandringham’s ethos and values

Sandringham School is part of the Ambition Education Trust (AET). The Ambition Education Trust (AET) consists of ten schools in Hertfordshire; three primary, one nursery and infants’, one juniors and five secondary. Our Trust launched in September 2024 following the amalgamation of two established Multi Academy Trusts (MATs), Alban Academies Trust and Atlas Multi Academy Trust. As a member of the AET, we are able to maximise opportunities for rewarding careers and opportunities for personal and professional development throughout our wider organisation. Sandringham, School also leads the Alban Teaching School Hub.

Application deadline: 9am on Monday, 14th July 2025

Expected interview date: in the week commencing 14th July 2025

Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.

Ambition Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to a post at AET is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, as well as other pre-appointment checks including an online check, as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education.

We are committed to the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership and caring status. We expect all our staff to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Sandringham School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1817 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Sandringham School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sandringham-school-st-albans

Sandringham is a co-educational academy school, based in St. Albans, Hertfordshire. Sandringham is a non-selective school with over 1600 students, including nearly 450 in the thriving sixth form. Our aim is simple – to be 'World Class' where our students receive the best education possible in a state school.

We believe that every child can succeed in life if challenged and inspired appropriately. A strong academic curriculum supported by outstanding extra-curricular provision helps Sandringham students develop as individuals with the necessary skills to be successful in adult life. Our ethos is summed up by our motto: 'Everybody can be somebody'

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