Library & Resource Centre Manager

Denefield School, Reading, Berkshire, RG31 6XY

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  December 2025/January 2026

• Closing date

  11 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  30 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,747.00 - £27,054.00 Annually (Actual) Term time only, 37 hours a week, full-time equivalent salary £28,142 - £30,061 (depending on experience)

Library & Resource Centre Manager job summary

We are seeking to recruit a Library and Learning Resource Centre Manager to oversee our open-plan library, which is utilised by staff and students for independent work and reading for pleasure. Our library is well resourced with a wide range of materials to meet the curriculum needs and leisure interests of the whole school community. The library is open throughout the school day, and for a period at the end of each school day, as a quiet place for students to complete homework.

As our Library Manager & Resource Centre Manager, the post holder will be responsible for the leadership and management of the library provision, working with curriculum areas to develop and promote the role of the library and support our aim to nurture a passion for wider reading and enquiry, which in turn will broaden our young people’s knowledge and develop a love of reading.

The successful candidate will be a dynamic and forward-thinking individual who enjoys working with young people and who is committed to creating and developing an environment conducive to active and participatory learning and resource-based research. You must have the ability to work under your own initiative and also to work collaboratively with the teaching staff to support our students in becoming confident, enthusiastic and independent learners and readers.

Staff who opt into the Local Government Pension Scheme will receive a generous employer contribution equivalent to 22.6% of salary. In addition, we offer free on-site parking, a bike-to-work scheme, a subsidised canteen, free eye tests, an employee assistance scheme and annual flu vaccinations.

Denefield is committed to safeguarding, safer recruitment and promoting the welfare of students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our comprehensive recruitment and selection processes aims to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants. Successful candidates are subject to rigorous pre-employment checks. All short-listed candidates will be subject to online searches and any successful candidates will be required to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. All candidates will be required to submit the names of two referees, one of which must be your most recent employer. CVs will not be accepted.

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.

Completed applications, submitted via My New Term, should reach us by 9.00am on Tuesday 11 November 2025.

Please note that we reserve the right to call candidates to interview before the closing date. As such, early applications are encouraged.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Denefield is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All short-listed candidates will be subject to online searches and the successful candidate will be required to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check along with other relevant employment checks. CVs will not be accepted.
In our school we are committed to securing genuine equality of opportunity in all aspects of our activities as an employer and education provider.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Denefield School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1142 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Denefield School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/denefield-school

Denefield is an ambitious, successful and over-subscribed school located in the western Reading suburb of Tilehurst.

At Denefield School we believe passionately that every young person should gain the qualifications and develop the character skills to have, as we say, 'success for life'. Every member of the community benefits from the strong, respectful relationships between staff, students, parents and carers.

Denefield is a happy and exciting place to work, where every member of the school team is valued. We recognise that our staff are the main reason behind our successful school. Both teaching and support staff are committed, enthusiastic and hardworking, all believing firmly that we should help students to be and do their best. We understand that the wellbeing of our staff is essential and that they need to feel supported so that they in turn can support our students and ensure that they succeed in life.

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