Graduate Trainee Librarian
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Westminster School
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- £20,374.45 (pro rata), based on a £25,000 FTE
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2023
- Apply by:
- 30 January 2023
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to learn new skills, gain experience, and develop your career as a Librarian.
This role is intended for a graduate who wishes to gain Library experience before undertaking a postgraduate course in Librarianship/Information Studies or who may wish to specialise in school librarianship. Prior experience is not essential as training will be given.
You will assist in the daily running of the Library and have responsibility for the Issue Desk at the start of the school day. Using your excellent interpersonal and IT skills, you will assist with daily tasks, including the issue, renewal and return of loans, assisting pupils and staff with enquiries and processing new stock. In addition, you will help with shelving, keeping the shelves tidy and creating eye-catching displays and signs in the Library and around the School. You will also support other Librarians with projects and assist in the supervision of pupils, including managing pupil behaviour as needed to maintain a calm environment.
During your contract, you will receive training from a qualified Librarian to help equip you to apply for a recognised postgraduate Library course or similar qualification.
This is a fixed-term contract for one academic year and is a term-time only post, with some additional days to be worked during the holidays.
In return, we can offer the following benefits:
- Auto-enrolment into the School’s Pension Scheme
- Free school lunches during the school term-time
- Free use of the School’s gym
For further information and to apply please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is Monday 30th January 2023.
Interviews will follow shortly after the closing date.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation.
Westminster Under School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
The School is a Registered Charity (no 312728).
About Westminster School
Westminster School is the perfect environment for happy and purposeful pupils. Pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged and our aim is to ensure that their enthusiasm for learning is developed further, allowing them to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future.
While the School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence in the country, its commitment to academic life does not make it a hothouse for passing examinations. Pupils’ success at examinations and entry to leading universities is instead a result of their enjoyment of academic enquiry, debate and search for explanation, well beyond published syllabuses. It is important also that pupils have the freedom to lead on projects outside of the classroom and embrace a whole range of extra-curricular activities and interests. A host of pupil-led Societies take place every week at the School and pupils can choose to study an additional language, play an instrument or two, volunteer in the local community, row along the Thames, take part in plays and musicals, and much more.
The School’s ethos resides in the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the 1560 Charter of Westminster’s Elizabethan foundation, where it is stated that: ‘the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state’. Whilst academic and cultural attainments are highly prized at Westminster, the School is fully committed also to nurture each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies – and to prepare young people for fulfilled private and public lives.’
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