Librarian
The Mountbatten School, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 5SY2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter Term if possible
Closing date
30 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 37 hours per week, 41 week contract (term time + 2 weeks)
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- Actual Salary: £23,045 - £25,471 (depending on experience)
Pay scale
- Grade D
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an inspiring, student-focused and forward thinking librarian with a desire to make a real impact. We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative librarian with a vision to lead our beautiful and popular library into its next chapter, providing a community space for learning and exploration.
The Library is integral to supporting our students for both learning and pastoral care as well as promoting and facilitating a love of reading for scholarship, for pleasure and for life!
The successful candidate will teach and help students as well as manage, operate and develop the learning environment in the Library. They will use their professional knowledge and skills to initiate new events, manage change and monitor outcomes, whilst engaging with students and staff at all levels.
What the school offers its staff
The school is situated in Romsey, a very pleasant abbey town in the southern Test Valley. Opened in 1969 and built on land formerly in the ownership of Earl Mountbatten's Broadlands Estate, the school enjoyed the patronage of Lord Louis until his assassination. We are honoured that his great granddaughter, The Lady Alexandra Knatchbull, is our current patron.
The school is one of the largest and most successful co-educational comprehensives in Hampshire. Our intake is 300, and there are currently 1466 students on roll.
The school serves a predominantly rural catchment area extending from the boundary of Southampton to the boundary of Wiltshire. We are the larger of two secondary schools in the town. The school is very popular and heavily oversubscribed.
The school is a Single Academy Trust. Andrew Portas, the school’s Headmaster, has been in post since September 2022 and was formerly the Senior Deputy appointed in September 2010. The school is organised into eight faculties with approximately 80 FTE teaching staff, and the pastoral structure is based on five year groups.
The school is fortunate to have extensive grounds as it was built on land that was formerly part of Lord Mountbatten’s Broadlands Estate. Since the school became an academy on 1 April 2011, there has been an extensive refurbishment programme over many years. As a result, all departments are very well-resourced and accommodated.
The school is high achieving and GCSE outcomes are very good. Ofsted carried out an ungraded inspection of the school in January 2024; the school remained ‘good’ with many aspects of the school’s work being recognised as ‘first class’. There is a very strong international ethos and tangible links with schools in Africa, Asia and Europe. The school has a very strong focus on staff development. Career development is pursued in leadership, pedagogy and pastoral opportunities.
The Mountbatten School offers all staff a refund for annual flu vaccinations and access to the Cycle to Work scheme.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Mountbatten School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and all staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. All our recruitment and selection practices reflect this and successful applicants are subject to Disclosure and Barring Service Checks along with other relevant employment checks.
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About The Mountbatten School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1465 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Mountbatten School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- human.resources@mountbatten.school
- Phone number
- 01794 510227
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