Creative Learning Services Librarian
| Posting date: | 05 September 2025 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 October 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8HD |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6027 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Creative Learning Services, Eastern Annexe, County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8HD
Worker Category: Fixed location worker
Salary: - Grade 10 £35,451 - £39,165 per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 15 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Friday 26th September 2025
Interview Date(s): Week commencing 13th October 2025
About the Role
Using our amazing collections and professional expertise, Creative Learning Services delivers engaging learning opportunities to support the curriculum, inspire pupils and equip staff in schools with knowledge and skills.
You will be delivering booktalking, poetry, spoken word, creative writing workshops and reading cafes to primary pupils, secondary students and parents in schools throughout Leicestershire and Leicester. You will be required to transport the session resources to schools and other venues yourself.
We’d like you to contribute to developing the CLS library management system and to provide professional advice and CPD to librarians, teaching and other staff in school to support the development of good school libraries and learning opportunities.
You will be responsible for managing the paid-for subscriptions of a case load of schools to ensure good customer relationships.
With your professional knowledge of children’s fiction and non-fiction you’ll enthuse teachers and pupils about children’s literature to raise attainment and wellbeing and develop and maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the National Curriculum and current children’s literature through your own reading and contributing to the CLS library book selection.
You will contribute towards working with local library and educational partners to share expertise in facilitating book awards, online author talks and CPD.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
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About You
To apply for this post, you must have the following skills, abilities and knowledge:
• Degree or equivalent qualification in Library/Information management or significant demonstrable experience of working in a library or information environment
• Experience of working with children and/or young people in formal learning environments
• Knowledge of the current National Curriculum and educational developments in schools
• Up-to-date professional knowledge of children’s literature and authors
• Provision of excellent customer care and understanding of customer requirements, whilst understanding the priorities of operating within an income-generating service
• Ability to take responsibility for managing your own work to deliver objectives to agreed priorities, manage time effectively and ensure all tasks are completed and deadlines met with accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to work well in a team and with a range of partners, including schools, community and commercial partners
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to provide evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances while still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style that determines where it can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Nicole Jordan
Senior CLS Librarian
Telephone: 0116 3053814
Email: nicole.jordan@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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