Job Title: Librarian
Location: London
Salary: £28,447 – £29,338
Job type: Full Time – Permanent
About us:
Willowfield is embedded into our local community, educating, and caring for local children for over 100 years. Willowfield today is a happy, expanding, oversubscribed, financially secure school doing great work – as is so clearly identified in the October 2021 OFSTED inspection. Such is our popularity that we are expanding over the next few years. We now have 960 students on roll from September 2022 rising to 1050 from September 2025.
We are a mixed 11 to 16 comprehensive School within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. We are proud to be a community school that gives all our students the best possible start in life and nurtures them as effective learners and happy, productive 21st Century citizens. Willowfield is characterised by great relationships, and a real sense of community.
About the role:
- To co-ordinate activities within the library, providing a comprehensive service to both pupils and staff.
- To plan and implement school policy in relation to the library to achieve an efficient, structured provision within
- the school.
- To provide support in the use of the library for research and reading for pleasure.
- To support curriculum-led activities by preparing, providing, maintaining, organising and managing resources.
Major Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities Operational:
- Organising and managing the school library service, guiding and assisting pupils and teachers using the library.
- To ensure the library supports the school curriculum and educational aims with a particular focus on literacy and research.
- Selecting, acquiring, maintaining and promoting stock to meet the needs of pupils and staff, covering the full ability, age and cultural range of pupils, supporting all subject fields and professional development needs of the teaching staff.
- To give advice to children on personal reading, and guidance to parents and teachers on reading resources based on a knowledge of literature and reading development appropriate to the age group in question.
- Arranging material for effective retrieval of school library resources.
- To keep abreast of current developments relevant to children and young people such as study support, popular teenage reads, National Literacy Trust and Library Association research and information, and reader development initiatives.
- To run after school homework club, to enable students to complete homework and access laptops.
Support for Teaching and Learning:
- Maintain links with other schools, particularly to support a coherent approach to library skills.
- Ensure the behaviour of pupils in the library area is appropriate.
- Report student and school issues in line with the School’s policies for health and safety, child protection, behaviour management etc.
- Be involved in extra-curricular activities, e.g. open days, and presentation evenings.
- Management of the library resource budget and preparation of financial estimates. Compilation of an annual report to the Headteacher / Governing Body on the library’s stock and developmental needs in relation to the library’s integral role in supporting the curriculum. Advising on best-value suppliers.
- Supervise small groups of pupils undertaking a teacher-led learning activity by co-ordinating and explaining basic instructions for the activity.
Responsibilities:
- Be aware of and comply with school policies.
- Be aware of the school’s responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 1984 for the security, accuracy and relevance of personal data held on such systems and ensure that all administrative and financial processes comply with this.
- Assist in the supervision and training of volunteer helpers/student library monitors
- Establish constructive relationships with suppliers and other professionals
Other requirements:
- To have an up-to-date Enhanced DBS Disclosure.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of children’s literature and child development
- Ability to organise, plan and deliver reading development activities
- Knowledge of reader development initiatives
- Good literacy and numeracy skills
- Ability to organise, plan and deliver user education sessions
- To be self-motivated and able to work unsupervised under own direction, both inside and outside the library
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to select, maintain and promote library materials
- Information and communication skills
- Budget management skills
- Behaviour management skills
- Commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people
- Ability to demonstrate commitment to Equal Opportunities
Further information including an application form will be sent to you via email after you click APPLY. Please complete the application form and email to the address provided in order to complete your application.
Candidates with previous job titles and experience of; Community School Librarian, Library Assistant, Library and Learning Resource Assistant, Library Administrator, Study Centre Assistant, Study Centre may also be considered for this role.
