Learning Resource Centre Manager
John Mason School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1JB11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
26 June 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
- £30,559.00 - £33,366.00 Annually (FTE) £15.84-£17.29 per hour
Learning Resource Centre Manager job summary
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and committed LRC manager to lead the Learning Resource Centre (LRC) as a dynamic and inclusive hub of learning and literacy at John Mason School. The LRC Manager will promote a culture of reading, provide targeted reading support, run extracurricular activities and manage library services and resources in line with the school’s values: Opportunity, Determination, and Respect. Experience of or desire to work with young people is essential and knowledge of library systems is desirable.
Existing knowledge of children’s and young adults’ literature and information sources or a willingness to build your expertise in this area would be a great asset to anyone applying to this job. However, the most important criterion is a desire to inspire in young people a passion for reading using a variety of different approaches.
Do you have:
- Experience of and passion for working in an educational environment
- The desire to inspire young people to engage with reading and literature, whatever their background.
- The organisational skills to manage the library collection and budget to ensure best value in purchasing and resourcing the LRC.
You are welcome to visit the school in preparation for your application. Please contact Jane Howse on 01235 524664 or email jhowse@johnmason.school to make an appointment.
Do you have:
- Experience of and passion for working in an educational environment
- The desire to inspire young people to engage with reading and literature, whatever their background.
- The organisational skills to manage the library collection and budget to ensure best value in purchasing and resourcing the LRC.
We will offer you:
- A supportive environment
- A commitment to your own professional development
- An innovative and passionate English team
- A school with a commitment to developing literacy and reading across the whole curriculum
The above post provides an excellent opportunity to work in a high quality and well-resourced environment and to become part of a highly motivated and visionary team. Professional development of staff is a key priority at John Mason and the career progression of colleagues is a key priority.
Commitment to safeguarding
Abingdon Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced check. The Trust is fully committed to the principles of equal opportunity, di-versity and inclusion and welcomes applications from less well-represented groups in the school and Trust. Posts in regulated activity are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 and all shortlisted candidates will be required to disclose information about their previous criminal convic-tions. All staff are expected to promote fundamental British values.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About John Mason School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1043 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- John Mason School website
John Mason School is part of the Abingdon Learning Trust and is fully committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of all its students and staff.
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