Head of Library Services
Merchant Taylors' Girls' School
Crosby, Liverpool
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 8 September 2019
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an imaginative, creative and self-motivated professional to transform our traditional school libraries into modern and effective research hubs. As Head of Library Services you would have responsibility for two libraries located in our senior 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.
This role will require you to work 37 hours a week Monday to Friday during School term time plus an additional two weeks which equates to 37 working weeks each year. You will have a small team of Librarians to manage across both school sites.
For further details and to apply, please visit our website via the apply button.
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)
Attached documents
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
Please note that you are wholly responsible for fact checking in respect of the information provided by schools. Please also check for the latest visa and work permit requirements that may apply. Tes is not responsible for the content of advertisements or the policies adopted by advertising schools. Tes asks that all schools follow Tes' Fair Recruitment Policy.