Library Assistant

Library Assistant 9 hours per week over two afternoons (Monday and Wednesday), 12.30 – 5pm, school term time. Pay range 2: £26,522 to £28,742 FTE. Actual salary £5,334.73 to £5,781.27 for 9 hours per week/ 38 weeks per year We are looking for a Library Assistant to support and promote our thriving Library and more widely our school’s reading for pleasure culture. The role includes working with our Librarian to organise and manage all centralised learning resources including books and other media within the School Library, and to assist students and supervise silent study. The successful applicant will be a keen and regular reader, with a passion for encouraging reading in young people, and more widely promoting learning and education. They will have a broad knowledge of books/literature that students might enjoy, will be able to set a studious, warm and friendly environment in the Library, and will have strong administrative skills. This is a great role where you will be working with superb students and a fabulously friendly, passionate and successful staff team. What Challoner’s High can offer you: · Membership of the excellent Local Government Pension Scheme, one of the UK’s most comprehensive public sector pension schemes · Supportive and highly capable and committed staff with a strong team spirit and great morale (more enjoyable than working from home!) · The opportunity to make a really significant difference to young lives · Excellent opportunities for professional development, including a highly regarded CPD programme · Staff recognition scheme · Use of staff gym; free soup at lunch; free staff yoga and fitness classes on site; staff discounts at local shops and restaurants, discounts for local theatres Dr Challoner's High School is a leading selective state grammar school for girls, with a strong academic tradition and an ambitious outlook for the future. The school has a broad vision for education and is characterised by a highly purposeful pur