School Librarian - Maternity Cover

School Librarian

Maternity Cover

Start date: November 2024 – July 2025

Local Government Pay Scale Level 5 points 8-12, £24,702 -26,421 FTE

( £20,845.57 - £22,296 pa actual pro-rated salary)

Part time / 37 hours per week. Term Time only.

We are seeking to appoint a School Librarian to work with our children and co-ordinate the library provision. This person will be responsible for acquiring, organising and maintaining the Library resources allowing pupils and teachers access to many of the materials they need to learn and teach.

The School Librarian makes an important contribution to supporting literacy initiatives, and is key in ensuring the library provides a learning environment that is of value to the whole school community.

Applicants must be friendly, enthusiastic and have excellent communication and have a passion for working with young people. Experience in a similar role or within a secondary school would be desirable.

Chase High School is a mixed, mainstream secondary school located in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. It educates more than 1,300 students aged 11-18 from over 40 countries. Our values run throughout our community ensuring the pupils have the aspiration to achieve, the character to succeed and the commitment to pursue excellence. We are a fully inclusive school which embraces diversity and celebrates cultural diversity of our community. A recent OFSTED inspection rated us as Good across every aspect of the school and highlighted our commitment to continued and rapid improvement throughout.

For further information and a job description please contact Mrs Sasha Wisbey on 01702 354441 sasha.wisbey@chasehigh.org. Chase High School is committed to safer recruitment so all applicants must be prepared to undergo screening to confirm their suitability to work with children

Closing date for this vacancy: Friday 18 October 2024

Interviews will be held upon receipt of application

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early upon appointment of a successful applicant.

Chase High School is an academy that forms part of the Discovery Educational Trust. Your normal place of work is at Chase High School, however, the Discovery Educational Trust reserves the right to require you to work at any other of its establishments, whether current or future. This may be for a temporary period or on a permanent basis, according to the needs of the employer.