Library Assistant

Watford Grammar School for Girls, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD18 0AE

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  22 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  10 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £11,840.74 - £11,840.74 Annually (Actual)

Library Assistant job summary

About this Role

Library Assistant (Part-Time fixed hours, Permanent, Term-Time only)

Monday - Thursday : 12.15pm - 4.30pm

Friday : 12.30pm-3.30pm

Pay Scale : H4, Pay Point : 6

Annual Salary : £11,840.74

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic Library Assistant to work on a part-time, permanent basis providing a comprehensive Library service to the whole school community. Supervising and assisting students using the library on a daily basis you will work closely with the Librarian in maintaining existing resources, the issue and return of library materials using the Library management system as well as the overseeing of reminders and overdue items, amongst others.

The successful candidate will also be required to supervise Study Club which will include registering students, facilitating private (individual or group) study, together with the responsibility of reporting on attendance and any behaviour issues to SLT members as required.

If you have a passion for developing our students as readers for both pleasure as well as their independent learning and the confidence to manage student behaviour during the school day and during Study Club, please review the Job Description and Person Specification attached and complete your application through My New Term.

Closing Date : Sunday 22nd June 2025

Interview Date : Week commencing 29th June (during school hours)

NB. We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the closing date if suitable numbers of applicants are received.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Watford Grammar School for Girls

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1451 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Watford Grammar School for Girls website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/watford-grammar-school-for-girls-watford

Watford Grammar School for Girls is a partially selective 11-18 girls’ school, founded as ‘The Free School’ in Watford in 1704 with a mission to teach girls, initially alongside their brothers, from the outset. This makes us one of the oldest girls’ school in the country.

We are proud of our heritage, but equally proud of our innovative approach to teaching and learning. Watford Grammar School for Girls has a very strong and distinctive ethos with clear vision and values.

There are close to 1500 pupils on role with more than 400 in the sixth form; academic results are consistently very high indeed and the school is ranked as outstanding by Ofsted.

There are always plenty of opportunities for teaching and support staff to train and develop their careers at Watford Girls.

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