Librarian

Librarian

Salary FTE £37,173 pa - actual £31,933. pa

37.5 hrs a week

39 weeks a year

United Learning

The John Roan School is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

The Role:

The library is the heart of the school’s learning community, with the potential to have a great impact on the educational outcomes of young people. As the librarian at The John Roan School your main purpose will be to manage, develop, and promote a love of reading within the library. In addition, we see a key role of the librarian a to drive the improvement of literacy across the school by working with the inclusion team to develop the reading skills of specific groups of children.

The library sits right in the centre of the main school building, representing the central role it plays in life at the school. Students use the library keenly during break and lunchtimes, while various projects and initiatives at the school and in our local community are run through the work of student ‘community librarians’. There is also a further library in the Sixth Form building at Maze Hill, providing more academic texts for post-sixteen learners as well as a study space for them to work in.

The John Roan School values personal development, and on joining the school you will have a wealth of opportunities to develop through our internal CPD programmes and within the United Learning group of schools. We are also ambitious about diversity and inclusion, so very much look forward to meeting candidates whose values reflect those in the job description to follow.

We are enthusiastic about the role that the librarian at the school will have in fostering that love of reading for all students as well as developing literacy for key groups and students.

We are looking for a passionate, enterprising candidate who will continue the work of the previous librarian as well as taking initiative in developing the massive potential of the library within the school.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. References will automatically be requested for all shortlisted applicants prior to interview. The successful applicant will be required to be DBS and safeguarding checks prior to taking up post.

To Apply

Please apply online: www.thejohnroanschool.org.uk and visit the “Work with Us” page.

Or contact our recruitment team at:

recruitment-sel@unitedlearning.org.uk

Closing date: 19th April 2023 - Midnight.