Librarian (Maternity Cover)
Hethersett Academy, Norwich, Norfolk, NR9 3DB14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
February 2025
Closing date
18 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
2 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 22.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Fixed term - until 20th February 2026 - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- Salary: Support Staff Pay Scale F: £15,037 to £16,374 pro-rata per annum (Actual) (£26,421 - £28,770 full time/full year equivalent)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications: • Good numeracy and literacy skills/GCSE (or equivalent) Maths and English • NVQ 2 or equivalent in teaching assistance or equivalent experience • Training in the literacy/numeracy interventions
Experience:
• Experience of working with
or caring for children of
relevant age
• Working in a library
preferably in a school or
college environment.
• Experience of utilising ICT
and skills to access and
retrieve information
Skills, Knowledge:
• Can use ICT effectively to
support learning
• Ability to self-evaluate
learning needs and actively
seek learning opportunities
• Ability to relate well to
children and adults
• Ability to work on own
initiative
• Able to build good working
relationships with
stakeholders, working well
with children and adults
• Ability to work
constructively and flexibly as
part of a team
• Effective communication
skills to be able to develop
open and constructive
relationship with a wide
range of young people and
staff
• Participate in development
and training opportunities
• Knowledge of contemporary
children’s literature
• Skills and confidence to be
able to instruct groups of
young people
• Able to work in a changing
environment, be open to
new ideas
• Able to work as part of the
school curriculum/resource
support team
• Ability to self-evaluate
professional development
needs and actively seek
learning opportunities
• Full working knowledge of
school policies on child
protection, health and
safety, confidentiality,
student behaviour/discipline
and equal opportunities
• Knowledge of the school
curriculum as it affects the
service the library provides
• Knowledge of relevant
policies/codes of practice
and awareness of legislation
• General understanding of
National Curriculum and
other basic learning
programmes
• Basic understanding of child
development and learning
• Work constructively as part
of a team, understanding
classroom roles and
responsibilities and your
own position within these
What the school offers its staff
The Inspiration Trust offers all staff a range of benefits via our ‘my lifestyle' portal. All eligible staff will have access to a range of benefits from salary sacrifice schemes and employee discounts.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Hethersett Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1174 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Hethersett Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@inspirationtrust.org
Hethersett Academy is one of East Anglia's top performing schools - recording the highest Progress 8 score in East Anglia in 2017 - and is rated Outstanding by Ofsted in all areas. We are proud of our strong academic approach, without neglecting the richness that comes from experiencing and enjoying sport and culture.
We are a National Teaching School, and part of the Inspiration Trust family of schools, dedicated to ensuring that our young people have the greatest possible opportunities regardless of their background.
Arranging a visit to Hethersett Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@inspirationtrust.org.
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