Librarian and Reading Champion (Maternity Cover)
Aylesbury High School, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 7SX14 days remaining to apply
Closing date
22 June 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
8 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,180.00 Annually (Actual) Range 4-5 Dependent on experience
Librarian and Reading Champion (Maternity Cover) job summary
JOB TITLE: Librarian and Reading Champion (Maternity Cover)
LINE MANAGED BY: A member of SLT
DATE: September 2026 (plus 2 days in August TBC) until 28 February 2027
SALARY: Range 4-5 (dependent on experience) £27,180 - £32,032
We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic individual to join our team as a Librarian and Reading Champion. This pivotal role combines the responsibilities of managing and developing our school library with actively promoting a vibrant reading culture throughout our community. We are lucky to have a fantastic library that is well stocked and welcoming; it is an essential study space for our students and is much loved by both our students and staff. We engage regularly with the Carnegie prize, participating in their shadowing scheme and promoting it with students.
The successful candidate will be passionate about literature and fostering a love of reading in young people. They will play a key role in supporting students' academic progress and their wider personal development and will be well supported by departments across the School, with strong links to the English department in particular.
This role is available as a full-time position or as a job-share opportunity for two applicants seeking part-time hours.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Aylesbury High School
- School type
- Academies, Does not apply, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1358 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Aylesbury High School website
Aylesbury High School (AHS) is a forward-thinking girls’ grammar school that values both academic and pastoral excellence and co-curricular opportunities with the vision of developing uniquely talented young adults, who are independent, strong and confident.
We create a welcoming environment which draws the very best from all in our community, achieved by providing an ambitious education that stimulates creative and critical thinking, values diversity and facilitates dynamic personal development.
The AHS values are Confidence, Respect, Engagement, Aspiration, Teamwork and Enjoyment and we want all in our community to experience, develop and demonstrate these characteristics both within the curriculum and through our extensive co-curricular offering.
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