Librarian

LIBRARIAN

Salary and Hours of Work

8.00am – 1.30pm, Term-time only plus Staff Development Days (39 weeks)

Spinal Point 12 (Currently £22,183, pro rata £14,331)

Job Description

The Librarian will be accountable to the Senior Leader as designated by the Headmaster with responsibility for the Library. This includes: 

 

• Working with the Senior Leader with responsibility for the Library to develop and maintain an effective Library and digital resources provision, which is regularly reviewed (completing an annual self-evaluation and development planning exercise each academic year) to ensure that the School’s development priorities are met. 

 

• Line managing the Assistant Librarian to ensure effective communication and continuity between morning and afternoon sessions, and a consistently high quality library service for pupils and staff across both sessions.  

 

• Ensuring the Library and digital resources provision is a significant and effective source of pupils' independent learning, by making recommendations on how that might best be effected and to ensure that systems agreed are intelligently and comprehensively implemented. 

 

• Liaising with Heads of Departments and Pastoral Leaders and other relevant staff (meeting them at least twice each academic year) to ensure a close match between the School's curriculum and the resources available to support class and independent study. 

 

• Supporting the operation and development of the School’s Breath Studies Programme (including EPQ) and LAMDA programme, meeting with the relevant staff periodically to ensure effective provision. 

 

• Organising and managing special events (for example, World Book Day and World Poetry Day) at least once per academic term to motivate and encourage reading and research. Promote the use of the Library for book readings by authors (e.g. liaising with the organizers of the Essex Book Festival). 

 

• Organising and managing the Lower School Book Club to promote reading.  

 

• Ensuring the effective organisation and management of the Library, digital resources and other resources/facilities falling under this post holder’s remit. 

 

• Maintaining and updating information, within areas of responsibility, held on the School’s database system/s including archive files and historical data. 

 

• Supporting and encouraging the School’s ethos and its objectives, policies and procedures. 

 

Duties and responsibilities 

 

Main duties and responsibilities are indicated below. Other duties of an appropriate level and nature may also be required, as directed by the Headmaster, Senior Leader with responsibility for the Library, or Director of Operations.

 

 

 The Librarian will work according to the terms of the letter of appointment.  This role is term-time only plus staff development days (39 weeks).