School Librarian

We are looking to appoint a dedicated and passionate School Librarian to join our team. As the School Librarian, you will play a crucial role in promoting literacy, research skills, and a lifelong love for reading among our students.
Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
Managing the school library, including cataloguing, organising, and maintaining the collection of books and digital resources.
Assisting students and faculty in locating and utilising library materials for research, recreational reading, and academic projects.
Collaborating with teachers to integrate library resources into the curriculum and support classroom instruction.
Providing guidance and instruction to students on information literacy, research methodologies, and effective use of library resources.
Promoting reading initiatives, organising book clubs, author visits, and other literary events to encourage a culture of reading and intellectual curiosity.
Keeping abreast of current trends in library science, educational technology, and children's literature to enhance library services and resources.
Managing library budgets, ordering new materials, and overseeing the processing of incoming acquisitions.
Supervising library assistants, volunteers, and students.
Fortis Academy is a very large 11-18 academy serving a local area of high-density housing in Birmingham’s outer suburbs. The Academy is the largest employer in the ward, with over 200 employees. It is part of the North Area Network of schools, one of six network regions in the city. The setting is uniquely split into a Foundation Academy and Senior Academy.
Fortis Academy’s vision is Enriching Lives. This is underpinned by the values of Character, Resilience and Aspiration. Our curriculum centres around three key areas; a rich and ambitious knowledge-based academic curriculum, a continuous attention to physical and mental well-being, with increasing use of 21st century technologies to support improved outcomes. We believe this combination will help our students lead confident, healthy, and fulfilled lives as adults and ready for the world of work.
Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
Cycle to work scheme
Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. Our schools span from Birmingham to Bury, meaning that we can support students from all walks of life, no matter their background or socioeconomic status. In doing this, we can help ensure all children are able to access a high standard of education, with all being treated equally.
In our secondary schools, we pride ourselves on our innovative approach to curriculum design, to ensure all our schools have breadth and ambition for all pupils, regardless of their starting points and barriers. Standard curriculum models don’t always engage all pupils, so we constantly seek to innovate and provide better opportunities to develop both knowledge and skills for life. We want our pupils to believe their curriculum is bold, exciting, purposeful, and ultimately leads to something meaningful for them. Some examples of our innovation include moving towards an extended school day, to provide a world class enrichment programme and more opportunities for essential skills like reading and cultural capital. We are also introducing a vocational and technical pathways, which run through the normal school curriculum but attract support from leading employers and universities to develops work-readiness in our pupils, so that they can progress onto T Levels and apprenticeships.Actual Salary: £20,664 - £21,360
Working Hours: 37 hours per week. Term Time Only plus 5 inset days (working 40 weeks) working 8am - 4pm