Librarian/Bookseller – Fiction Specialist
Roedean School
Brighton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required as soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 4 October 2018
Job overview
Roedean is taking a new approach to developing reading and the fiction aspect of its library resources by setting up a fiction section with the high quality selection, presentation and information of the best bookshops.
This new role has been a development to support our school ethos and priorities to promote reading across the School.
The successful candidate will be someone who can take an innovative approach to merging the functions of a library and a bookshop, offering books to borrow or buy, and enabling a depth of books as well as a fantastic selection of the recently published.
We are looking for candidates with a bookselling background and experience to launch this new role at Roedean. Working with the Head of Libraries the successful candidate will have an academic background as well as a love of literature and passion for sharing this to encourage a culture of reading throughout the school.
Roedean is at a very exciting time of its development, with its best ever academic results, unprecedented growth in pupil numbers; development of first class facilities across the site and the launch of the Roedean Group of Schools. We welcome your interest in being part of our continuing journey.
Please download an application pack from our website www.roedean.co.uk/Vacancies or contact Louisa Butler via vacancies@roedean.co.uk or 01273 667657.
Closing date: 9am, Friday 5 October 2018
Roedean is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
About Roedean School
Roedean is a mainstream, single-sex, independent school for girls aged 11-18. The School is situated to the east of Brighton, in a beautiful location on the South Downs overlooking the English Channel. There are 700 students on its roll. It is a selective school with termly fees, but scholarships and bursaries are available for girls going into Years 7, 9, and 12.
Headteacher
Niamh Green
Values and vision
The School was founded in 1885, and the founding sisters wanted to provide a “thorough, physical, intellectual, and moral” education. This ethos continues today, and Roedean provides a genuinely holistic education, in which all elements complement each other; this approach places a high value on all the experiences that happen beyond the classroom in sport, art, drama, music, and dance, as well as community outreach and partnerships.
The ‘Six Pillars’ of Roedean are to encourage healthy and active living, a strong academic foundation, an appreciation of sport, culture, and the arts, to build independence of thought and character, to build on skills and confidence, and to have moral and personal values.
ISI
“The school is highly successful in achieving its aims. All pupils, including those with SEND or EAL and the more able, achieve excellent results in external examinations. Pupils, including those in Sixth Form, make a high rate of progress in relation to the average for pupils of similar abilities. They have an exemplary attitude towards learning which contributes to their success. Pupils enjoy their lessons, working together well to attain high standards of learning.”
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