Learning Resource Centre Manager
Tring School, Tring, Hertfordshire, HP23 5JD19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April 2025
Closing date
24 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
5 February 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
- £31,067.00 - £33,366.00 Annually (FTE)
Learning Resource Centre Manager job summary
Are you an experienced library professional with a passion for literacy and learning? Do you have a proven track record of fostering a thriving reading culture in a school setting? If so, we encourage you to apply for the position of Learning Resource Centre Manager at Tring School.
As Learning Resource Centre Manager, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of our school's learning resources and for developing and contributing to a whole-school reading strategy working alongside the school’s Reading and Literacy coordinator. You will work closely with teachers and students to promote reading for pleasure and academic success.
Main Areas of Responsibility:
Contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of a whole-school reading strategy and culture
Manage the school's learning resources, including cataloging, circulation, and collection development (books, digital resources, equipment etc)
Create a welcoming and engaging learning resource centre environment that promotes reading for pleasure and academic success, ensuring pupils use the facility responsibly
Promote reading for pleasure through events, activities, book clubs, author visits, and reading challenges
Collaborate with teachers to integrate reading and learning resources into the curriculum
Provide reader's advisory services to students, recommending books and other resources based on their interests and needs
Monitor student reading progress and identify students who require additional support
Manage the LRC staff
Manage the learning resource centre budget
See Job Description/Person Specification for further details
The successful applicant will have:
Experience working in a school library or learning resource centre
Excellent 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.
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 are not accepted.
About Tring School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1568 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Tring School website (opens in new tab)
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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