Learning Resource Centre Manager

Learning Resource Centre Manager

Full Time (35 hours per week)

Term Time Only

H5-H8: £20,903-30,451 (depending on experience) plus Fringe Allowance £626 Pro-Rata

Actual Pay Range £16,925- £24,431

Start Date: 1st September 2021

We seek applications from those of the Catholic faith, all faiths and of no faith but who are supportive of our Christian values and ethos.

St Mary’s Catholic School is seeking to employ a suitably qualified full-time Learning Resource Centre Manager to manage and continue to develop a thriving, secondary school study centre/library. We are looking for a proactive, student focussed, confident and reliable candidate with excellent communication and ICT skills. The ideal applicant will be well organised, able to work unsupervised on their own initiative and ideally will have experience of a school library/resource centre or other relevant experience. We use Accelerated Reader as a tool to drive standards in reading and literacy and this will be led and managed by the post-holder. 

Working at St. Mary’s is an extraordinary opportunity.  Our previous OFSTED inspection judged us as Outstanding in every category, and our most recent S48 Inspection (2018) also judged us as Outstanding in every area.  Over the last 4 years, exam results have risen at both GCSE & A Level.  The ‘Progress 8’ score for 2018 was +0.61, which puts the school in the top 10% in the country, and the 2019 also placed us ‘above average’.  At A Level the proportion of A*-B Grades as well as students enrolling at elite Russell Group Universities has risen significantly over each of the last 5 years, with a number of students holding acceptances to Oxbridge for September 2021.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.   Added to this, the school is also at an extremely exciting juncture in its future.  Demand is high, and owing to intense oversubscription, we will be 5 years through expansion to 6FE, with an extra-ordinary 7FE in Sept 2021.  We have also won over £7m in capital bids in the last 4 years and are enjoying brand new cutting edge facilities as a result.  The school faces an extremely strong and positive financial future.

We are passionately committed to developing staff and managing workload to ensure that colleagues enjoy their work and recognise St. Mary’s as an almost-uniquely positive place to teach and enjoy their careers.    Our Surveys this year showed that 96% of staff enjoy their work at St Mary's, 97% agree that leaders do all they can to ensure a motivated and respected staff, 100% of students enjoy their learning and believe that behaviour around the school is good, and 97% of parents would recommend St. Mary’s to other parents.  We are passionately committed to developing staff and managing workload to ensure that colleagues enjoy their work and recognise St. Mary’s as an almost-uniquely positive place to teach and enjoy their careers. 

Apply in writing using the forms available on our website http://www.stmarys.net/about-us/vacancies/ Support Staff Application Form, Rehabilitation of Offenders Form & Recruitment Monitoring Form.  Please note only applications on St Mary’s forms will be accepted. Please contact Recruitment@stmarys.net  to submit an application or for more information. 

Closing date: June 24th 2021 10am 2021

Interviews:  Week commencing June 28th 2021