Librarian Maternity Cover
Newmarket Academy, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 0EB16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
23 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
5 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 35 hours per week, 38 weeks per year
Contract type
- Fixed term - Maternity Cover - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- Grade 4, SP 9-12 (FTE: £26,409 - £28,624 / Actual: £20,888 - £22,640 per annum)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Newmarket Academy is a community school on a journey to embed and sustain the significant improvements we have made. We are ambitious to ‘be the best we can be’ for the children who attend our school. Our core values- respectful, responsible, resilient- capture our approach and we are looking for a Librarian to join us who can model our values and support us on our journey.
We are proud to have been appointed the first lead secondary school in the country for developing the CUSP curriculum (Curriculum Unity Schools Partnership) at secondary level. The CUSP curriculum is well established in the UK and internationally. CUSP is guided by evidence-led curriculum structures, such as retrieval, spaced retrieval practice and interleaving. It is underpinned by explicit vocabulary instruction and research-focused pedagogy. Combining these has led to exceptional outcomes for young people, as a result of coherent curriculum design and instructional teaching. Newmarket Academy is part of Unity Schools Partnership, a forward-thinking academy trust of 39 schools. At Unity, we value our people, and we have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice. Unity Schools Partnership celebrates both professional development and career progression.
We are looking to recruit a highly conscientious, and self-motivated person to provide a key role in managing, developing and promoting the school’s library so that all students and staff have ready access to a broad and relevant range of reading materials, research tools and information services as possible. This role will include being a tutor.
You will:
- Be able to work independently but contribute to a strong team ethos
- Be flexible and open to change in order to meet the needs of our students and the needs of the Academy
- Be pro-active, and willing to use your own initiative, as appropriate
- Possess good interpersonal, organisational, communication and administrative skills
- Take a professional approach in your dealings with students, staff, parents/carers, and external users of the school
- Have an ability to remain calm and confident when under pressure
- Be a team player, open to advice, feedback and guidance from colleagues
- Be able to deal with sensitive information in a confidential manner
- Be resilient, hard-working and self-motivated.
What the school offers its staff
In return we will offer:
- Support any CPD required to be able to fulfil the role
- Newly refurbished learning spaces with state of the art interactive white boards and sound systems
- A supportive and friendly working environment with well established “well-being” programmes
- An excellent programme of induction into the Academy with supportive and dynamic staff
- 2 week October half term
- Well-being day each Academic year
Further details about the role
Prospective candidates are invited to visit the Academy and meet the team. Please contact Sian Newby, PA to the Headteacher for further information or to make an appointment Sian.newby@newmarketacademy.co.uk
Closing Date: Monday 23rd June
Interviews: w/c 30th June 2025
Please note: we may hold interviews as and when applications are received and we reserve the right to offer to a candidate prior to the closing date. We only accept applications submitted online via our careers website and which are completed before the closing deadline. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible and advise you check the job information as per the listing on our careers site.
In line with safer recruitment, we are unable to accept CVs. Failure to complete an application form satisfactorily may result in not being shortlisted for the post.
Unity Schools Partnership is committed to safeguarding, safer recruitment and promoting the welfare of pupils. Our comprehensive recruitment and selection processes aim to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants. Successful candidates are subject to rigorous pre-employment checks. We are equally committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity. We aim for our workforce to be representative of society and that each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We are committed to providing equality and fairness in our recruitment and employment practices and not to discriminate on any grounds. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination.
We care deeply about inclusive working practices and diverse teams. If you’d prefer to work part-time or as a job-share, we’ll facilitate this wherever we can – whether to help you meet other commitments or to help you strike a great work-life balance. We’re keen to ensure we’re designing an organisation that works for everyone, so we particularly encourage applications from different under-represented groups.
Commitment to safeguarding
Unity Schools Partnership is committed to safer recruitment, equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required.
Applying for the job
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About Newmarket Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 831 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Newmarket Academy website
- Email address
- Sian.newby@newmarketacademy.co.uk
Arranging a visit to Newmarket Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Sian.newby@newmarketacademy.co.uk.
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