School Librarian
Merchant Taylors' Girls' School
Sefton
- Expired
- Salary:
- £14,607 per annum working during term time only (35 weeks per year)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 22 August 2019
Job overview
27.5 hours per week (35 weeks per year), Monday to Friday, 8am to 1.30pm or 12.30pm to 6pm
We are looking for three part-time librarians to join Merchant Taylors’ Schools, an independent school with an incredible 400-year-old heritage. There are two positions that require afternoon work and one requiring morning work.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly skilled and creative librarian to join the School. You will be an imaginative and self-motivated professional capable of taking our traditional libraries on a journey to become modern and effective research hubs – places where children want to spend time. You will liaise with teaching staff to make sure we provide relevant and varying resources and deliver events that encourage children to get the most out of their library. The successful applicant will be meticulous, friendly, customer focused, an avid reader, and ideally be experienced in working within a school environment. You will enjoy communicating and inspiring children in your interactions, as well as having the ability to develop positive relationships across the whole schools.
The schools are committed to the development of their students into independent and self-sufficient learners, and you play can play a pivotal role in helping this aim to become a reality. We want our libraries to be a welcoming and inspiring spaces where students can access information in its full variety of forms, and where they can work individually and collaboratively to develop strong study skills and develop a true love of learning.
For further details and to apply, please visit our website vacancies page via the Apply link.
Candidates should submit an application form via email to recruitment@merchanttaylors.com or alternatively post to Human Resources Department, Merchant Taylors’ School, Liverpool Road, Crosby, Liverpool L23 0QP.
Closing date: Midday on Friday 23rd August 2019.
Interviews: w/c Monday 10th June 2019.
Merchant Taylors’ School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
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About Merchant Taylors' Girls' School
- Merchant Taylors' Girls' School
- Liverpool Road, Liverpool
- Merseyside
- L23 5SP
- United Kingdom
Merchant Taylors’ is one of the oldest and most highly-respected Girls’ Schools in the North of England.
Founded in 1888 in Crosby, north of Liverpool, the school has a proud record of helping girls to achieve academic success, an extensive programme of enrichment and co-curricular opportunities and an environment that values care and respect for others.
When girls join in Year 7, to the day they leave in Sixth Form, they are encouraged to explore fresh interests, take part in new activities, broaden their horizons and make new friends. Girls are supported to understand the ways in which they can grow as young women of the future by seizing opportunities and challenges and gaining the tools to thrive.
There are also various opportunities to collaborate with the nearby Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, in activities such as drama and music productions, the Combined Cadet Force, Duke of Edinburgh Awards and co-educational classes in selected subjects for Sixth Form students.
Headteacher
Mrs Claire Tao
Values and Vision
Merchant Taylors’ Girls’ School combines a proud history with a commitment to innovation in education to create the very best platform for the future education of girls.
Girls are encouraged to be ambitious, to develop at a pace that is right for their own talents and needs and have the character and confidence to take risks and try new ways of improving what they do.
Its happy, caring family of staff and pupils underpins everything that is so wonderful about the school. There are strong bonds between girls and their teachers, who encourage each other to promote and support the development of each individual girl. As a result, girls flourish.
The school is rightly proud of its reputation for academic excellence and the breadth of the school curricula allows girls to develop their intellectual curiosity, a real passion for life-long learning and receive a very personalised approach to their studies.
ISI
"The quality of the pupils' academic and other achievements is excellent. High quality aspirational teaching ensures that the school is highly successful in meeting its aim of educating pupils in the fullest sense.
"Pupils are exceptionally self-confident, self-assured and responsible. Relationships across the school are excellent, underpinned by outstanding levels of mutual respect."
View Merchant Taylors’ Girls’ School’s latest Inspection report
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