Literacy Champion & Library Leader

The Stockwood Park Academy, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 5PP

4 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  asap

• Closing date

  3 November 2025 at 3pm

• Date listed

  24 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,371.00 - £36,672.00 Annually (FTE) AS 19-25 FTE £32,371-£36,672 pro rata £29,532-£33,456

Literacy Champion & Library Leader job summary

Literacy Champion & Library Leader

The Stockwood Park Academy are looking for a hands-on, proactive and inspirational individual to join us a Literacy Champion and Library Leader. Our Learning Resources Centre (Library) is home to all our information sources which we encourage students to access via both traditional and modern methods. We are looking for someone committed to promoting the active use of the Learning Resource Centre for all groups of students as a key curriculum resource and someone who will develop and teach library skills to our youngest members of the student body. In addition, you will lead as a Key Stage 3 Literacy Champion, planning and delivering reading programmes and supporting the English Faculty in delivering Sparx Reader, which will advance our learners’ skills and increase their appetite and pleasure for literature.

At our academy, we are proud of the unrivalled education experience offered and you will certainly benefit from forward-thinking and supportive leadership, an encouraging and enthusiastic staff body and enterprising students. The Stockwood Park Academy has state of the art facilities, fit for all teaching needs. Our facilities include sporting and performance equipment which the whole school body are able to enjoy.

It is incredibly important to us here at The Stockwood Park Academy that all our staff are valued, listened to, mentored, challenged and given adequate opportunities to develop. Consequently, we have many success stories of staff that have joined us and been given excellent CPD and training that has allowed them to advance their careers.

Key Duties:

Operational lead and involvement in the production of the Learning Resource Centre Development Plan (annual)

Plan and implement regular and relevant reading interventions

Monitor and evaluate the impact of reading interventions

Delivery of the new Year 7 induction programme including elements of library skills and library software usage

Undertake sessions for students and staff on information retrieval skills and agreed literacy programmes

Assistance and guidance to students engaged in research

The Successful Candidate will:

Be highly organised

Work well under pressure

Understand the importance of literacy in breaking the cycle of underachievement

Possess a degree in librarianship or information management that is recognised by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) - Desirable

Job Specifics:

Start Date: November 2025

Salary: AS 21-25 FTE £33,452-£36,672 pro rata £30,518-£33,456

Job Role: Permanent, Term-time + 2 weeks (41 weeks) Mon-Thu 8am-4pm Fri 3:30pm

The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.

Safegurding

We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.

The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.

The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.

Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:

“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”

The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.

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

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Applying for the job

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About The Stockwood Park Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1471 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Stockwood Park Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-stockwood-park-academy

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