Library and Literacy Mentor (Maternity Cover)
Alperton Community School, Wembley, Middlesex, HA0 4JEDeadline is tomorrow
Closing date
24 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36 Hours and 39 Weeks - Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 Year - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,444 to £33,539
Pay scale
- Scale 6 spinal point 18 to spinal point 22
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
At Alperton Community School we know that reading is a vital skill for life. Literacy shapes futures and creates opportunities and we are determined for every one of our students to be an enthusiastic reader. If you love working with young people and want to inspire them with a passion for reading, we want to hear from you.
Each of the two libraries in our diverse and multicultural school is welcoming and fantastically well-resourced. Students have regular, timetabled, library lessons and the libraries are popular with students before and after school, and at breaks and lunchtimes. We are a Champion School for the Sparx Reader programme and you’ll take a leading role in facilitating and coordinating this and other important interventions to improve our students’ literacy.
The Person
We want to recruit an enthusiastic colleague who can deliver first class customer service for library users and support our students with top quality literacy mentoring. You will need to be optimistic and adaptable, have an eye for detail, and have strong interpersonal skills to build positive relationships with staff and students alike.
We will provide full training on our library systems for the right candidate. What’s more important is that you have an infectious passion for reading and enjoy working with and supporting young people.
What the school offers its staff
The Benefits
Continuing Professional Development
Employee Assistance Programme
Cashback Health Benefits
Cycle to Work Scheme
Pension Scheme
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
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About Alperton Community School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1948 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Alperton Community School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@alperton.brent.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 02089022038
We are a large, mixed, 11-18 academy with over 350 students in our sixth form. Due to our increased popularity as a school, we expanded our roll in 2018. Alperton Community School is an inclusive school with a student intake that reflects a wonderfully diverse and vibrant local community. Our students are very well behaved, work hard and are ambitious to succeed. Our most recent Ofsted inspection in July 2021 graded our school as Good "Pupils like coming to school and they enjoy their lessons"; "Pupils can focus because they feel safe"; "Leaders’ expectations of all pupils are high"; "Pupils behave well in school. They focus on their learning in lessons. Pupils follow teachers’ instructions and listen to one another".
Student progress at GCSE and A Level has been above national averages for many years with disadvantaged students performing well above national averages. Our progress 8 score has been consistently “above average”. We also see high numbers of our students’ progress to Oxbridge and Russell Group Universities. Student attendance and the percentage of students who remain in education, employment or training are also well above national averages.
Recent awards include the 2022 Pearson “Making a Difference” Award; the school was recently shortlisted for the TES School of the Year and won the TES Maths Team of the Year. We are also one of only four schools in the country to hold the Platinum Professional Development Mark.
This is an exceptional opportunity. It will offer the successful candidate a friendly, highly supportive and committed working environment within a culture of success and professional growth. The school offers excellent support for ECTs in their induction year.
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