Librarian/Reading Champion

Librarian / Reading Champion Permanent, 35 hours per week for 39 weeks per year from September 2022 

Salary: Bexley Scale 7, pro rata salary £21,295 to £22,466 

About the role: 

Cleeve Park School is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and driven librarian to join us from September 2022. At Cleeve Park School, reading is a highly valued skill within our curriculum and is central to our identity as a school community. We believe in all students as readers and we promote the value of reading in unlocking literacy skills, building cultural capital, improving academic outcomes and fostering a love of the written word for life. This is an exciting student facing role, ideal for a self-starter with a passion for reading, especially young adult fiction and non-fiction. 

The successful candidate will be the Accelerated Reader lead and will deliver a programme of induction, research and reading based lessons to classes, alongside their English teacher. They will take ownership of the promotion of reading within the school and work alongside others in improving reading and literacy related outcomes. Cleeve Park is a place where traditional values meet innovation. 

If you want to join a highly successful team who are passionate about the very best education for our young people, and you can inspire learners to seek what they do not yet know, then we want to hear from you. We are a popular 11-18 school, providing an excellent education for all our students, with a commitment to learning, pride in our community and sharing success in all we do. We are situated in attractive grounds in the south of Bexley and located within easy reach of the M25 with good access to both central London and rural Kent. We have excellent facilities, including a 3G astro pitch and state of the art fitness centre. 

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be required for the successful applicant. You will have access to a range of professional development opportunities within the academy and also across the wider Trust. We reserve the right to close the application process early if suitable candidates apply. Download details & an application form from the school website: www.cleevepark-tkat.org Closing date for applications: 27th June 2022

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a significant number of applications. If you have not had any communication within 10 days of the closing date please take this as confirmation that on this occasion your application has not been successful. 

Safeguarding:

TKAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full Safer Recruitment process, including an enhanced disclosure and barring service check. 

Our Commitment - Equal, Inclusive, Diverse:

TKAT is committed to inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity by encouraging and welcoming differences, listening to individual experiences, aspirations and accomplishments and learning how to grow better together. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of any protected characteristic; this includes applicants wishing to work flexibly. 

Access to interview - should you be selected and invited to interview please let us know if you require us to adapt the interview environment. If we can accommodate practical workplace adjustments to assist, we will.