Learning Resource Manager
Avanti Fields School, Leicester, LE5 0BX13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April 2026
Closing date
15 March 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
2 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time (Can be done as a job share): Please see JD for further details
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 4, £26,646 - £28,213 per annum, pro rata. Approximately £9,944 - £10,529 per annum (0.37320 FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Please note: This post is offered on a three day per week job share basis, with working days to be agreed at interview
Grade:Grade 4, £26,646 - £28,213 per annum, pro rata. Approximately £9,944 - £10,529 per annum (0.37320 FTE)
About us and the role
We are looking to appoint an experienced and motivated Learning Resource Manager to lead the strategic development and day-to-day management of the school library at Avanti Fields.
This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate who is passionate about reading, research skills and resource development to make a meaningful impact across the whole school.
The successful candidate will play a central role in supporting curriculum delivery, strengthening students’ information literacy and promoting a strong culture of reading for pleasure.
Working collaboratively with subject leaders and teaching staff, you will ensure that high-quality, diverse and accessible resources are available to all learners, while creating a welcoming and inspiring library environment.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
What will you do?
- Lead and manage the school library and learning resources, ensuring they are well organised, inclusive, accessible and effectively promoted across the school.
- Select, acquire and maintain high-quality print and digital resources that support the national curriculum, equality and diversity, and wider reading for pleasure.
- Work collaboratively with teaching staff and subject leaders to support curriculum planning, develop information literacy skills and advise on copyright compliance.
- Promote a strong reading culture by leading initiatives that inspire reading for pleasure and supporting independent learning.
- Manage the library budget, systems and environment, while supervising and training staff, volunteers and pupil librarians.
What are we looking for?
- Knowledge and understanding of library and information skills
- Knowledge of how ICT can be used to support reading development
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and the ability to adapt to very different audiences
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
Avanti Fields School is an all-through, faith-designated (Hindu) state school which welcomed the first intake of Year 7 students in September 2018, and first intake of Nursery and Reception students in September 2022. The school is rapidly expanding and will grow year by year to a full cohort of 1,320. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues its journey to outstanding.
The staff at Avanti Fields School are passionate about our school and are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities for all our students. All staff that work at the school will need to subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our students.
This is a unique opportunity to work in a school which is driven by three key elements for both students and staff:
- Educational excellence
- Character formation
- Spiritual insight
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- LGPS pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
Further information about the job
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti Fields School
- School type
- Free School, Hindu, ages 3 to 16
- Education phase
- All through school
- School size
- 1178 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Fields School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Fields School is a new all-through school which welcomed the first intake of Year 7 students in September 2018. The school is rapidly expanding, and will grow year by year to a full cohort of 1,320. This is an exciting time to join the school as it moves into its new state of the arts building and continues its journey to outstanding.
Avanti Fields School; we are an all-through; 3–16 Hindu-faith school – part of the multi-academy, Avanti Schools Trust.
Avanti Schools are extremely popular with Hindu and non-Hindu parents alike who want an outstanding, disciplined and inclusive environment for learning for their children.
Our established schools in London and Leicester are all at least rated good with outstanding features and have the highest expectations are our pupils.
Avanti’s faith ethos means high academic and moral standards and an environment that values and nurtures the best within all faiths.
Avanti Fields is a Hindu-designated faith school, part of the growing family of Avanti schools. However, staff and students at Avanti Fields School do not originate from any specific faith background. Applications are welcome from practitioners of any faith and from those of none; they will, however, be expected to be in full sympathy with the unique ethos and vision of the School.
Arranging a visit to Avanti Fields School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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