What skills and experience we're looking for
Person Specification
We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment. If you are excited about this role and can demonstrate many but not all of the areas below, we would still encourage you to apply as you may just be the person we are looking for.
The listed criteria will be reviewed across the stages of our recruitment process, including your application form, personal statement (within the application form), interview, references and certificates.
Skills and personal attributes:
(Personal competencies, qualities, attitude and behaviours that will allow you to perform effectively in the role, ensuring the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people)
Essential for this role:
• A tangible passion for reading and literacy
• The ability to be enthusiastic, but also perceptive and fair
• The ability to provide guidance, advice, or instruction to support and challenge students and staff in an appropriate way
• The ability to manage time effectively, and to organise and prioritise workload proactively so that objectives are fulfilled
• The ability to work on one’s own initiative and not require constant supervision
• The ability and willingness to work cooperatively as part of a team
• The ability to respect the professional expertise of others, and use their constructive feedback to improve your performance
• The ability to manage students
• The ability to meet multiple requests for information in a calm and professional manner
• Excellent organisational and general administrative skills, e.g.recording, filing, etc.
• Excellent IT skills, especially in the areas of databases and spreadsheets
• A high standard of written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to communicate with care and respect when interacting with students, staff, parents and carers
• A personal commitment to quality and excellence that will take the Academy forward
You are likely to have:
• Knowledge of and interest in the education environment.
• A strong record of developing and maintaining good relationships with young people and adults
• An understanding of the needs and values of different communities, in particular the different cultures the Academy serves
• Genuine care for all students, especially the disadvantaged and vulnerable
• Belief in and commitment to the values and vision of Trinity and passion for contributing to realising our mission
You may have:
• Evidence of leading initiatives to improve reading
• Knowledge of and expertise in how people learn
Knowledge and qualifications:
(Professional, technical or academic qualifications that you have achieved relevant to this role)
Essential for this role:
• Education to at least level 3 (e.g.: A level, NVQ3 City and Guilds)
• Excellent literacy, numeracy, and accuracy
You are likely to have:
• Degree or equivalent
• Relevant further librarianship qualification
You may have:
• Qualified Teacher status
Experience:
(Please draw upon experience and achievements gained through paid employment, voluntary work or personal life experience relevant to this role)
Essential for this role:
• Experience of maintaining and manipulating computerised data/information
• Experience of working with young people from diverse backgrounds
You are likely to have:
• Previous experience of working in a library
• Knowledge of Young Adult fiction/current literature
• Experience of using a Management Information System
What the school offers its staff
If you join us, you benefit from being part of a school that:
• places a strong emphasis on reading
• has outstanding facilities, including a new, well-stocked library and budget for more purchases
• has an exceptionally visible and supportive senior leadership team
• has hardworking staff and students who want to do well
• is supporting students to make progress that is significantly above the national average (P8 +0.53)
• is a ‘Good’ school with ‘Outstanding’ leadership and management and ‘Outstanding‘ Personal Development’, according to Ofsted in Jan 2024, who also said:
• “This is an ambitious school that wants the very best for its pupils, both academically and pastorally”.
• “Its curriculum is highly ambitious for all pupils”
• “Lessons are not disrupted by poor behaviour. The school is calm and orderly because pupils understand the rules and routines in place.”
• is a music specialist school with an emphasis on the performing arts
• is a school that develops its people
We can offer you
• Continuing Professional and Leadership development
• An employee assistance programme, offering counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas
• Access to discounted gym membership, the cycle-to-work scheme, and eyesight test vouchers
• Onsite parking or easy access via public transport or onsite parking
• Flexible working, fully supported, and enhanced family-friendly policies
• Automatic enrolment for the Teacher’s Pension or LGPS Avon Pension Fund
Further details about the role
About You
You will have a passion to see young people develop as readers. This will be evidenced either by experience in being a librarian, or having the willingness to learn how to run a library. You will need to be an organised systems-driven person, but you will also need to be able to relate to our students. In addition, you’ll need to be knowledgeable about YA literature and be able to signpost our students to the next best read. Ultimately, you must care deeply about young people, especially those who are disadvantaged.
More information about the Trust, School and Role
• To find out more about this role, please read the job description and person specification.
• To find out more about Cathedral Schools Trust and Trinity Academy please read the attached Recruitment packs or visit our website: www.trinityacademybristol.org or www.cathedralschoolstrust.org/
• Informal enquiries can be made via email to enquiries@trinityacadembristol.org
• School visits are welcomed and can be arranged via email to Alice Thornton-Parr, HR and recruitment officer, athornton-parr@trinityacademybristol.org
How to apply
We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment. If you are excited about this role and can demonstrate many, but not all of the requirements on the job description and/or person specification, we would still encourage you to apply as you may just be the person we are looking for.
• Please complete our application form by Midnight on Sunday 7th September 2025
• Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview on Thursday 18th September at Trinity Academy
• All candidates will be advised of the outcome of their application following the closing date
• We reserve the right to appoint before the deadline for an exceptional candidate.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Cathedral Schools Trust are subject to pre-employment checks incl, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
The safeguarding responsibilities of the post include:
• Ability to ensure and deliver effective safeguarding
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.
The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants and all applicants will be required to provide details of their online profile, including social media account names/handles, as part of the interview process.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. The post is subject to satisfactory completion of all vetting checks including the provision of two strong references and an enhanced DBS check.
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