Learning Resource Centre Assistant

Tring School, Tring, Hertfordshire, HP23 5JD

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  15 December 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  4 December 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: £7,451.00 - £7,689.00 Annually (Actual) Herts Payscale H2

Learning Resource Centre Assistant job summary

Learning Resource Centre Assistant

Contract: 13 hours a week (must be Monday and Tuesday), term time plus 1 week

Salary: H2 (FTE £24,796-£25,583) Actual Salary £7,451-£7,689

Start Date: January 2026

Responsible To: Learning Resource Centre Manager

We are seeking an enthusiastic, creative and organised individual to work as part of a team in our Learning Resource Centre, providing a full range of promotional and information services to support teaching and learning. This role would suit an individual passionate about promoting and encouraging reading at school and for pleasure to young people and staff. Full training will be provided.

Main Areas of Responsibility:

• Support teaching and learning with promoting reading across the curriculum

• Monitor children’s reading engagement both at school and at home.

• Help support children’s reading ages.

• Mentor and advise children to choose reading age appropriate texts that inspire and foster the love of reading.

• Supervise students in the LRC

• Responsibility for running the LRC on occasions

See Job Description/Person Specification for further details

The successful applicant will have:

• Experience working in a school setting (preferable)

• Knowledge of children's and young adult literature

• Strong organisational and communication skills

• Passion for reading and learning

Tring School can offer the successful candidate:

• Training for school specific systems as required

• ‘State of the Art’ school facilities

• Children of staff have second priority admission after 2 years’ service or recruited to fill a post with a demonstrable skill shortage

• CPD Champion School

• Free and confidential access to our Employee Assistance Programme

• Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme

• Cycle to Work scheme and free on-site parking

• Free flu vaccinations

• Dedicated wellbeing team who are extremely passionate about ensuring our staff are well looked after

• Access to Occupational Health and Onsite Counsellor

• Discounted membership to our onsite Sports Centre, offering swimming and exercise classes

Tring School is very popular and over-subscribed, serving the town of Tring and the surrounding villages. It is a mixed Church of England comprehensive school with over 1500 students on roll including 330 in the Sixth Form. Academic attainment is well above average and improving year on year. The school strives to support and encourage individual growth within a caring community. We have a talented team of staff who are ambitious to become outstanding in all areas of our work. Ofsted Inspection November 2017 stated: ‘Pupils are highly motivated to learn.' ‘Teaching is good overall with outstanding features.’ Staff wellbeing is incredibly important to Tring School and we have a wellbeing team who organise events and surprises to support staff, as well as links to external support via our Employee Assistance Program. All staff receive high quality CPD opportunities provided to the whole school and within the department.

We are proud to be joined by two local Primary schools in our closely formed MAT, The Ridgeway Learning Partnership, where we create a seamless educational journey from ages 3-19.

If you are interested in the prospect of working in a supportive environment where you can have real impact, and where exciting things are happening, then we welcome an application from you. We warmly welcome visits.

Applications will be reviewed on receipt for interview ASAP. We reserve the right to close the advert sooner than the advertised closing date.

Closing date: Monday 15 December 2025

Interview date: w/c 5 January 2026

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.Safer recruitment Policy , Child protection Policy, KCSIE 2024. To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fully diverse and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply and to join us.

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 Tring School

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1584 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Tring School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/tring-school

Tring School is popular and over-subscribed, serving the town of Tring and the surrounding villages. It is a mixed Church of England all-ability school, 1500 on roll, over 300 Post-16. Academic attainment is well above average and improving year on year. The school strives to support and encourage individual growth within a caring community. We have a talented team of staff who are ambitious to become outstanding in all areas of our work. Ofsted Inspection November 2017 stated: ‘Pupils are highly motivated to learn.' ‘Teaching is good overall with outstanding features.’

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