Librarian and Literacy Champion

St Ives School, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 2BB

9 days remaining to apply

Start date details
TBC
Closing date
6 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
26 September 2024

Job details

Job role: Other support roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time: 30 hours per week, Term time plus 5 Inset days (44.849 paid weeks pa)
Contract type: Permanent
Actual salary: £16,094

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you a passionate and dedicated advocate for children who believes in the transformative power of an excellent education? Are you passionate about reading and literacy and the incredible positive impact that it can have on the lives of young people? St. Ives School is seeking a committed individual to join the team as our School Librarian. We are committed to fostering an environment where every student receives the highest quality education and support, and we are looking for someone who shares our values and dedication to excellence.

As Librarian, you will play a key role in developing and promoting the library to ensure that all students and staff have ready access to as broad and relevant a range of reading matter, reference materials, research tools and information services as possible, in order to support teaching and learning throughout the school, facilitate independent learning, and encourage reading for pleasure. You will be expected to develop a 21st Century library with oversight of opportunities for students to access reading remotely and the promotion of library and love of reading through social media and the School website. You will share our commitment to encouraging all students, but particularly those students from a disadvantaged background, to develop a deep love of reading. Working closely with our teaching teams, you will develop strong positive relationships in order to improve the life chances of our young people.

What the school offers its staff

The school offers 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays) on appointment, up to 29 days holiday after five years, a Local Government Pension Scheme and access to the on-site gym outside of school times.

At St Ives School we see our staff as our most important resource. The successful candidate will have our full support in their ongoing career development.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding, promoting the welfare of children and to ensuring a culture of valuing diversity and ensuring equality of opportunities. To this end, successful applicants must be suitable to work with children and the following checks will be undertaken prior to employment:

Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance to include Barred List checks
Receipt of two satisfactory employer references, one of which must be from your

current or most recent employer

Satisfactory verification of relevant qualifications
Satisfactory health check
Evidence of right to work

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.