Shire Oak Academy
Walsall
Salary:
Grade 5 (SCP 9 -17)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
30 September 2025
Job overview
Librarian with experience and skills in phonics and reading intervention desired.
Closing date: 30th September 2025
At Shire Oak Academy, we will invest in you and support you to reach your potential. As a school we are only as good as the people we work with and to ensure that we get the best from our young people, we need to make sure that we also get the best from our staff. Relationships matter and this is at the heart of what we do every day in our school and as one of 12 schools within the Mercian Trust.
Shire Oak Academy is not the easier school to work in currently, but we encourage you to visit to see we are far more than our most recent Ofsted report. We have a new Leadership Team, led by experienced Headteacher Matthew Everett and we would welcome applications from those wishing to join us on the exciting journey that Shire Oak is currently on. We are a community secondary school in Walsall Wood and proud of our inclusivity. Our ethos is built upon #BeIncredible and we accept that young people are going to make mistakes, but through positive interactions and support we will help to ensure that they fall less often and can reflect and learn from their mistakes and #BeIncredible in all that they do. Through our House System, and form tutors, we provide the care and support that is needed for all individuals and their families, including healthy competition. Everyone within the academy is expected to be an active member of their house, students and staff alike
As well as offering a knowledge rich curriculum, which includes the full spectrum of creative subjects, we also offer an extensive enrichment and extra-curricular programme. Our drama shows are as good as what you would see in the local theatres, our sports teams are committed and driven taking part in local and regional competitions, and our wide array of trips provide awe and wonder for our young people. If there is an opportunity to improve the cultural capital of our young people, we will always be open to ideas.
The design of our building is unique, a huge campus at the highest point in Walsall with incredible views and huge open spaces, with top of the range facilities, including sport, technology and photography spaces.
Come and see what Shire Oak Academy has to offer, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic Librarian with experience and skills in phonics and reading intervention desired.
This is an exciting and innovative time for the Academy and we are looking to appoint colleagues who are:
Inspirational and enthusiastic team members.
Clear about what constitutes outstanding outcomes for all students.
Passionate, creative staff who believe in all students' capacity to succeed and will embrace our ethos 'Turning Potential into Excellence'.
We can offer you the support of a strong, hard-working team and the opportunity to work with students who meet the high expectations we have of them.
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process.
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About Shire Oak Academy
Shire Oak Academy
Lichfield Road, Walsall Wood, Walsall
West Midlands
WS9 9PA
United Kingdom
Our vision, our aspirations
To provide our learners with a world class education which will prepare and equip each individual to take a contributing place in 21st century society.
The school's aims
The Governors and staff of Shire Oak Academy aim to do their best to enable students to give of their best and to achieve their best – spiritually, morally, socially, intellectually and physically. Governors and members of staff aspire to achieve this aim by:
1. developing the individual talents of all students to their fullest potential, thereby enabling them to gain the best
results and qualifications of which they are capable;
1. engendering a sense of personal worth and physical well-being, enabling students to become confident, self-
reliant, self-disciplined and responsible in an environment that offers support, guidance and counselling, as
necessary;
1. creating an enjoyable, lively and creative process of teaching and learning;
2. promoting high standards of behaviour, good personal relationships and a respect for the individual, whatever his
or her age, abilities, race, background or creed;
1. providing an environment in which all members of staff experience a sense of professional well-being and are
willing to give of their best at all times;
1. providing a caring and supportive environment in which all students may develop personal qualities, attitudes and
values to prepare them for taking up an adult place in society as both responsible and responsive citizens.
1. maintaining a vital and relevant curriculum, having a sound balance between the development of skills and the
acquisition of knowledge and understanding.
1. recognising the individuality of all students, to encourage that success is to be shared and to celebrate it in a wide
variety of ways.
All students need to accept that the above aims are only achieved by their:
* coming to understand themselves and developing self esteem.
* having a respect for themselves, others and for their environment.
* appreciating the value of learning and achieving to their highest levels by consistent effort, enthusiasm, creativity
and excellence.
* understanding that self-discipline is based on an underlying concern for others.
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