Librarian
Holland Park School
Kensington and Chelsea
- Expired
- Salary:
- Scale 5 (all-year-round salary from £26,544 to £29,022, annualised so that post holder works 08.00-17.00, term-time plus two weeks at the end of August (08.00-16.00)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2022
- Apply by:
- 29 November 2021
Job overview
We encourage you to read our website very carefully and familiarise yourself with our 2014 Ofsted report, our prospectus, candidate information pack and application form for the post. What will be clear to you is that you are applying to an extremely successful school and one with a decidedly clear ethos of achievement. We moved, in November 2012, into a brand new £80 million school. The school became an Academy in September 2013 and was recognised by the Department for Education as a Teaching School in 2015. The government’s analysis of examination results has placed the school’s performance in the top 5% of schools nationally over the last decade. The school is a personalised community, committed to creating careers for people.
Our school seeks to appoint staff who are confident and diligent, who share a desire to work with, and to support students. This role in particular focuses on working with various colleagues to embed a passion for reading in all subjects, developing those reluctant to read and challenging the most able. We seek a colleague with CILIP accreditation.
An application form that should be completed electronically is available from the school’s website: http://www.hollandparkschool.co.uk/vacancies/train-and-teach-with-us. Early application is encouraged as we will interview as applications are received. The closing date for this role Monday 29th November 2021.
About Holland Park School
Leaders and teachers at Holland Park believe in the value of detailed planning, of creative, exciting, distinctive lesson ideas that seek not merely to be functional journeys through subject matter, but transformative learning experiences. They know that successful learning is not possible without rigorous and thorough methods of assessment. Teachers recognise that behaviour management is rooted in quality relationships within the context of firm boundaries, students need to believe that teachers take warm and genuine interest in them. Emotional intelligence, warmth and sensitivity is central to this post. Our work in culturing a motivated and committed workforce has been recognised in the award of IIP platinum (2020).
Our employees are the most important resource in the school and we take our appointments very seriously indeed. At the same time, we also know that applicants are making a choice and that when leaders and teachers share the ethos of a school, learning is most powerfully and successfully supported.
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