Bordesley Green Girls School and Sixth Form Bordesley Green Road Birmingham B9 4TR Telephone number: 0121 464 1881 Required for October 2025 - fixed term contract for 1 year - 22.5 hours per week, term time only The Governing body are seeking to recruit a reliable and flexible person to join Bordesley Green Girls School and Sixth Form. You should have great communication skills and be able to converse confidently with students, staff and parents. Excellent timekeeping and attendance are an essential requirement for this role. The successful candidate will be a committed, reliable and self-motivated person, who is able to form positive relationships with a range of stakeholders. As the Senior Librarian the key function is the management, development and promotion of the library within the school to ensure than an effective resource and information service is provided to all pupils and staff. Our ideals candidate will have: excellent interpersonal skills – be bright and interested in students, displaying a genuine warmth for them an awareness and working experience of the challenges facing young people today excellent communication skills with a “can-do” attitude an ability to work within a team and independently excellent time management and organisational skills excellent IT Skills, including excel and word etc Key Requirements: in conjunction with other members of staff assist the Headteacher to draw up and implement a policy for the library which reflects the educational aims and objectives of the school. To monitor the effectiveness of the policy on a regular basis plan and oversee the organisation and management of the library including the financial management of the library resource budget the preparation of financial estimates. The compilation of an annual report to the Governing Body on the library's stock and developmental needs in relation the library's integral role in supporting the school curriculum contribute to curriculum development through attendance at management team, faculty and departmental discussions and informal liaison with individual teachers. selection, acquisition, organisation, promotion and maintenance of book and non-book resources to cover the full age and ability range of the school community, and to ensure an equality of opportunity for all pupils and staff responsibility for optimising the use of IT services within the school; this is to include on-line view data systems and the compilation of in-house databases as appropriate. Development of training packages for staff and pupils on the use of IT as an effective information retrieval tool arrangement of materials for effective retrieval including the systematic indexing, classification and cataloguing of all library resources to staff and students as appropriate to ensure a high standard of display and promotional material to enhance the standard of appearance of the library in order to provide an attractive environment conductive to achieving optimum use both for purposeful study and leisure What we will offer you: a supportive and caring culture a knowledgeable and friendly Team active CPD and generous coaching/line management support wellbeing support including 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme/confidential counselling, access to wellbeing advice, flexible working culture access to generous benefits, such as pension scheme (LGPS) Informal visits can be accommodated. Please contact via the Main School office on 0121 464 1881 to arrange this. This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role. How to apply: An applicant information pack and application form can be downloaded from our website. We regret that we are unable to accept CVs.Interested candidates should email their completed application form to HR@bordgrng.bham.sch.uk by the closing date. Interviews will take place w/c 15 September 2025. If you have not received a response within 10 working days of the closing date, then please assume that your application has not been shortlisted on this occasion. An online search will be carried out on short-listed candidates to help identify any incidents or issues that can be discussed at interview. This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check (where applicable) Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out on all shortlisted candidates. 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. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. BCC is a Living Wage employer.