School Librarian
| Posting date: | 23 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 20 August 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham, West Midlands, B30 1DY |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | fa61468c-2e16-41c4-a9bd-e215a1191170 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Would you like to work in a school that invests in developing and growing its staff?Are you passionate about reading and want to help drive literacy in schools If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen at King’s Norton School for Boys. We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, highly motivated, organised and confident School Librarian to join our team. We are looking for someone who loves reading and can communicate and share that passion with students, colleagues and the wider community.
The ideal candidate will be an inspiring, self-motivated and passionate Librarian who is able to develop a culture of reading for pleasure and academic success across our school. They will not only manage library resources, but also actively engage with students and staff, enrich learning experiences beyond the library, and make literacy a dynamic and exciting part of school life.
What the school offers its staff
At King Edward VI King’s Norton School for Boys, we are proud of our journey, and with over 100 years of history, our school has many great traditions that live on in our ethos today. We maintain the best of these traditions and enhance them with the latest educational practice; this provides us with a blend of traditional values with a forward-looking approach to learning.
We are part of theKing Edward VI Multi Academy Trust, which is a diverse family of schools serving Birmingham. The trust supports the school in our shared aim and values; to make Birmingham the best place to be educated.To achieve this, it is essential that we add value, academically, personally and culturally to our students’ journey. We are proud of our curriculum, teaching, learning and the results they enable our students to achieve. We are proud of our students and the way they develop as individuals through their interactions and experiences. We are proud of the range of opportunities that we offer which take our students out of their comfort zone and help them to build character, self-worth and resilience.
Aspiration is essential to all of this; it is the key to continually striving for improvement. Our motto is:‘Humani Semper Contendimus’.– ‘we humans are always striving’.It drives us in providing the highest quality, well-rounded education for the boys we serve.
Further details about the role
Applicants should complete the school’s application form sent to recruitment@knbs.co.uk.Please do not delay in sending in your application as applications will be considered as they arrive.We do not intend to consider any application that arrives after4pmon Wednesday 20stAugust 2025, final shortlisting of applications will take place at this time and interviews will be carried out on Wednesday 27thAugust 2025 or Wednesday 3rdSeptember 2025.
If you’d like a tour of the school or an informal conversation witha member of our team, please contact us on 0121 628 0010 or emailrecruitment@knbs.co.ukand we will happily oblige.
King Edward VI King’s Norton school for boys is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. For short-listed candidates an online search will also be carried out as part of our due diligence processes.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Would you like to work in a school that invests in developing and growing its staff?Are you passionate about reading and want to help drive literacy in schools If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen at King’s Norton School for Boys. We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, highly motivated, organised and confident School Librarian to join our team. We are looking for someone who loves reading and can communicate and share that passion with students, colleagues and the wider community.
The ideal candidate will be an inspiring, self-motivated and passionate Librarian who is able to develop a culture of reading for pleasure and academic success across our school. They will not only manage library resources, but also actively engage with students and staff, enrich learning experiences beyond the library, and make literacy a dynamic and exciting part of school life.
What the school offers its staff
At King Edward VI King’s Norton School for Boys, we are proud of our journey, and with over 100 years of history, our school has many great traditions that live on in our ethos today. We maintain the best of these traditions and enhance them with the latest educational practice; this provides us with a blend of traditional values with a forward-looking approach to learning.
We are part of theKing Edward VI Multi Academy Trust, which is a diverse family of schools serving Birmingham. The trust supports the school in our shared aim and values; to make Birmingham the best place to be educated.To achieve this, it is essential that we add value, academically, personally and culturally to our students’ journey. We are proud of our curriculum, teaching, learning and the results they enable our students to achieve. We are proud of our students and the way they develop as individuals through their interactions and experiences. We are proud of the range of opportunities that we offer which take our students out of their comfort zone and help them to build character, self-worth and resilience.
Aspiration is essential to all of this; it is the key to continually striving for improvement. Our motto is:‘Humani Semper Contendimus’.– ‘we humans are always striving’.It drives us in providing the highest quality, well-rounded education for the boys we serve.
Further details about the role
Applicants should complete the school’s application form sent to recruitment@knbs.co.uk.Please do not delay in sending in your application as applications will be considered as they arrive.We do not intend to consider any application that arrives after4pmon Wednesday 20stAugust 2025, final shortlisting of applications will take place at this time and interviews will be carried out on Wednesday 27thAugust 2025 or Wednesday 3rdSeptember 2025.
If you’d like a tour of the school or an informal conversation witha member of our team, please contact us on 0121 628 0010 or emailrecruitment@knbs.co.ukand we will happily oblige.
King Edward VI King’s Norton school for boys is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. For short-listed candidates an online search will also be carried out as part of our due diligence processes.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.