Librarian - Haringey, United Kingdom - TFPL & Sue Hill Recruitment
Description
Librarian
North London
£30, ,217
Permanent
36 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
40 weeks per year
Our client, an education provider, would like to invite a talented and ambitious Librarian, who is serious about making a real difference to the lives of young people, to join their team.
It is about ensuring that every pupil, whatever their background or level of ability, enjoys the support they need to achieve exceptional results.
So, join the team - and enjoy the support needed to make a difference.RESPONSIBILITIES
- Sole management, development, promotion and evaluation of an effective learning resource and information service which supports learning and teaching across the school
- Promote a love of reading through the use of Library and the inhouse reading scheme
- Organising and managing the library, ensuring its effective use by classes, groups and individuals
- Creating and implementing a policy for the library which incorporates the educational aims and objectives, and complies with data protection, copyright, health and safety legislation
- Taking responsibility for and managing the library budget, including the preparation of budget bids and estimates
- Contributing to the curriculum and liaising with all departments and liaison with individual members of the teaching and learning support staff
- Selecting, acquiring, organising and promoting Library recourses and ICT to support teaching and learning
- Ensuring equality of access for all pupils and staff to high quality learning recourses. This includes ordering resources for students with a range of SEND to ensure all students can access the library
- Recruiting pupil library assistants, supervising and training them and rewarding their achievements
- Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the service provided by the library and its impact on teaching and learning
- Supervising pupils using the library for independent study and leading supervision of daily unstructured time in the library space
- Deliver small reading groups to ensure all students have access to reading
- Supporting and advising staff and pupils in the selection and use of information resources to support their curricular and leisure needs
- Planning and delivering library induction lessons to support the development of information literacy and learning skills in partnership with teaching staff, and reinforcing these skills where appropriate
- Collectionwide weeding
PROJECT - LIBRRAY RESTORATION
The library has gone through periods without a trained librarian in post, aswel as disruption to normal functioning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tasks will include:
- Migration of data to a new ILMS (Integrates Library Management System)
- Data cleaning of student data
- Data cleaning of the catalogue
- Physical reorganisation of the stock
- Library stock take
- Collectionwide weeding
- Reestablishment of hardware and software such as security tag system
PERSON SPECIFICATION
- First degree or Master's degree in Library and Information Science beneficial
- Experience in an education environment/working with young people beneficial
- Experience in leading library services
- Excellent communication skills and organizational skills
- Able to organise own work and time productively
- Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- Able to work with mínimal supervision and to exercise judgement and initiative in your daily work
- Has a flexible approach to work and to change
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