Librarian and Literacy Co-Ordinator

Wembley Park, north London

Term-time Only.

Do you want to be part of a team that will help inner-city children to do the seemingly impossible?

Michaela Community School is an exciting new free school that opened in September 2014. A vibrant and energetic team, our intention is to transform the lives of children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

In September 2017 we will have 480 pupils, years 7, 8, 9and 10. As we are growing every year (840 pupils at full capacity including a Sixth Form), there will be a lot of opportunities for development. You could play a part in leading and shaping the vision and future of our school.

We don’t offer lessons in ICT, DT, Citizenship or take children out of lessons for intervention. We aim to achieve 5 good GCSEs in English and Maths for 100% of our pupils. If you want to work in an environment where you will really make a difference, Michaela is for you.

Library

Our library is filled with hand-picked fiction and non-fiction texts. We operate a pupil librarian system where the children are actively involved in the day-to-day running of the library. As we grow, the library is becoming more and more central to our school: pupils love spending lunchtimes in the library, studying or reading. Our library is a silent space, and that silence is strictly adhered to.

Reading is absolutely central at Michaela

As Michaela’s Librarian, you would do so much more than run the library. Every child at Michaela reads for twenty minutes a day in form time, and you would be responsible for administering and improving the class reader programme. Every Friday, English teachers recommend novels to their classes: you would be responsible for collating these recommendations and ensuring they are delivered as well as possible by teachers. We have Family Lunch every day, and once a week we have a reading topic that you would craft and hone to ensure the pupils are discussing reading every week over lunch. Our weakest readers have thirty minutes of additional reading after school: you would manage that programme of class readers to ensure the pupils are having the very best experience they can of reading at Michaela.

But there is so much more to do. We are looking for someone who will lead on reading in our school, and who will bring new and exciting ideas about how to make our children love reading even more than they already do.

If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will really love working here. There is no other school like it in the country.

Some of our staff are on Twitter. Check them out!

https://twitter.com/jo_facer

https://twitter.com/katie_s_ashford

https://twitter.com/joe__kirby

To register your interest, please send a covering letter (no more than 3 sides in Arial font, point 12) and a CV to info@mcsbrent.co.uk  In the subject line please put the job title.

As part of your covering letter, can you be sure to answer these questions:

1. Why would you want to be our librarian?

2. How would you fit in with our unique ethos?

If you do not receive an email from us confirming receipt of your application, this means we have not received it, so please email it to us again. Candidates will be asked to disclose any past criminal convictions. We will let you know within a day of receiving your application whether or not you have been shortlisted for an interview.

Closing date for applications: 10th April 2017

Suitable candidates will be interviewed promptly upon receipt of application. The closing date will be brought forward in the event that the post is filled.

If you would like to discuss the position with one of teachers, please email Head of English, Jo, at JFacer@mcsbrent.co.uk

Michaela Community School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates will need to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS and/or provide police checks from other countries, where appropriate. Michaela Community School is an equal opportunities employer.