Job Description

Required from 17 March 2025 – 4 July 2025 – please note that this is a temporary position. 

The Senior School Library is central to school life and located at the heart of the main building. The library’s aims are to foster literacy, independent learning and a love of reading in all pupils, as well as to support teaching and learning across and beyond the curriculum.

The library is open from 8.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Monday – Thursday and from 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. on Fridays. It consists of four large rooms that have been joined together to form an open-plan space; three rooms are study areas and one has armchairs for reading for pleasure. There is also a smaller side room for private study and meetings. Fiction is located in the reading-for-pleasure area and non-fiction in the study areas. The library also has a growing collection of online resources.

Pupils in Years 7 and 10 have a course of 4-5 weekly library lessons, in which they are taught how to use the library and are given time to read and browse the collection. The library also delivers library inductions and research skills sessions tailored to specific subjects, the (Extended) Project Qualification in Years 10 and 13 and in other contexts where staff request it.

The library is also used during lesson time by pupils in Y ears 7-11 who have dropped subjects and pupils who have been excused from PE.

Deadline for applications: Wednesday 29th January

Interviews will be held week beginning Monday 3rd February

Channing School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. To assist in this, the school follows a formal recruitment procedure for the employment of all staff which adheres to the recommendations of the Department for Education (DfE) in “Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education” and the school’s Child Protection Policy. A copy of this procedure is available on request.

Subject to statutory provisions, no applicant will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic. Ability to perform the job will be the primary consideration.