Literacy and Learning Resource Centre (LRC/Library) Manager

Term time only plus 2 weeks (41 weeks per year)

Firth Park Academy is a larger-than-average-sized secondary school located in the north east of Sheffield. We benefit from being sponsored by the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) which gives our school and staff opportunities for professional development in partnership with leading professionals across our region. Our school is a specialist college for the Arts and has gained national recognition through a range of awards including Investors in People and being recognised as a National College Development School in 2009. We are proud of our richly diverse school population and their ambitions and aspirations to succeed in an environment where staff, students and parents all work in partnership to achieve the very best outcomes. We are a school who put learning ahead of all in order to ensure we continue to make our best better.

We are looking to appoint a talented Learning Resource Centre (LRC/Library) and Literacy Manager to join us on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will be able to inspire and support the literacy development of our students, helping each to reach their full potential on their paths to future success.

We are on a journey to becoming a good and then outstanding school and invite you to join us to achieve our vision.

As Learning Resource Centre (LRC/Library) and Literacy Manager, you will:

• work as part of our core team of literacy leaders to develop school-wide approaches to literacy development and achieve successful literacy links with curriculum areas;
• support the implementation of our accelerated reader programme within school to improve literacy levels of all children throughout the academy;
• promote a love of reading across the school and to provide evidence of the effectiveness of strategies intended to do so;
• actively pursue the raising of levels of literacy amongst all students through the running of highly-effective, time-limited interventions for identified students;
• be responsible for the management, maintenance and effective running of the Learning Resource Centre (LRC/Library);
• maintain an active professional interest in all areas of literacy and library development and to produce annual development plans to address identified needs;
• lead and develop our team of student literacy ambassadors across the Academy;
• be a certified member of CILIP.

You will have:

• the drive to positively engage students and influence their love of reading;
• an appropriate qualification and/or experience in library work;
• outstanding interpersonal skills that will support working with young people, colleagues across the school;
• A strong desire to help the children of Firth Park Academy, enabling them to reach their full potential;
• An active role as an Associate Mentor under the direction of the main mentor.

Experience of working in a school setting is desirable but not essential to the post. If you have the passion to positively contribute to our ethos and have the drive to make a difference for our students and parents, then we would like to hear from you.

Further information can be found on www.hays.co.uk/jobs/FIRTHPARK

To discuss the post and/or request an application form, please contact our recruitment partner, Arthur (Aj) Blyth at Hays Education on 0114 289 6746, email arthur.blyth@hays.com.

Visits to the school are welcomed and can be arranged by contacting Aj Blyth.

Firth Park Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to complete a DBS form in line with Section 115 of Police Act 1997.

Closing date for applications is Monday 10th November, with interviews to be held Wednesday 12th November.

Firth Park Academy
Fircroft Avenue
Sheffield
S5 0SD