College Librarian

Hockerill Anglo-European College, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 5HX

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  18 November 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  7 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Dependent on experience, actual salary range from H8 (£27609 - £30582) to H9 (£31314- £33370) 37 hours a week, term time 5 days during school holidays
• Additional allowances:

  Dependent on experience, actual salary range from H8 (£27609 - £30582) to H9 (£31314- £33370) 37 hours a week, term time 5 days during school holidays

College Librarian job summary

Hockerill Anglo-European College is a thriving IB World School with a vibrant boarding and day community. We are proud of our international ethos and commitment to academic excellence, innovation and inclusion.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and forward-thinking College Librarian to lead our library and information services and play a central role in promoting reading and literacy across the College.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine strategic leadership with day-to-day management of a welcoming, well-resourced learning environment. You will lead our whole-school reading strategy, curate our print and digital collections, coordinate reading interventions and organise inspiring literary events and author visits.

We are looking for a collaborative professional with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, passionate about fostering a culture of reading for pleasure and academic success. Experience in an educational library or information service is desirable, but most important is your enthusiasm for engaging students and staff in reading and research.

For further details, please email recruitment@hockerill.com.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. All post-holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) including barred list check.

We strive to be an inclusive and diverse workplace representative of our student population. Applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates are especially welcome.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 Hockerill Anglo-European College

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 926 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hockerill Anglo-European College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hockerill-anglo-european-college-bishop-s-stortford

We passionately believe that every student deserves the opportunity to be the best they can be and that our school gives them that opportunity. We are a state co-educational day and boarding school for students aged 11 to 18 and offer our students a dynamic, vibrant and exciting learning environment where development of the whole student is our priority. The College offers a rigorous and broad curriculum, and is proud to be one of the largest state schools offering the prestigious International Baccalaureate Middle Years and Diploma programmes. With a twin focus on the two specialisms of Languages and Music, Hockerill offers a truly distinct setting for a world-class education. Located in beautiful grounds on the edge of Bishop’s Stortford the school is in close proximity to London and the South East of England and accepts applications for boarding and day places from students with a current UK passport or the right to residency in the UK.

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