Job Description

Bishop Vesey's Grammar School

Birmingham
14,408 - 15,357 per year

Job type:

Part Time, Permanent

Start date:

01 September 2025

Apply by:

25 August 2025

Job overview

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We have an exciting key vacancy to join the Library Team in our dynamic and inclusive school. The successful candidate will share the aspirational ambitions of our school and work closely with the Library Leader in our busy library. We are a happy and thriving school committed to equality and diversity. We welcome colleagues from all backgrounds into our community. Our school is one of the leading state schools in the country. Experience of working in a library or similar setting would be advantageous.

Duties will include:

Assisting to maintain a positive working environment for students and promote a positive and professional image of the library across the School Deputising for the Library Leader in their absence Responsibility for administrative tasks to retrieve overdue or lost items Support with supervision of students and their use of resources during two break times and two lunch periods


Do you have:

An excellent knowledge of young people's literature? Experience of working with children and young people? A firm but fair approach to dealing with behaviour issues? Demonstrable excellent interpersonal and communication skills? Excellent IT and computer literacy skills?


Are you:

Educated to GCSE grade 9-4 (A-C) in English Language or equivalent?
Able to work in a busy environment with the ability to maintain a calm and orderly atmosphere? Wanting to be part of a warm, outward looking community, which celebrates diversity and is supportive and collaborative? Able to converse at ease with parents/students and members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English?


If so we would encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Closing Date: Monday 25th August 2025, 12pm


Interview Date: TBC

Application forms and further details are available from our website at https://bvgs.co.uk/. To arrange a pre-application visit please contact the Recruitment Team via recruitment@bishopveseys.bham.sch.uk or by telephone on (0121) 250 5400. Please note we do not accept applications by CV.

Bishop Vesey's Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check together with Identity, Right to Work, Prohibition Order, pre-placement medical and verification of qualification checks are requirements for this post.

We will carry out an online search about you for information that is publicly available online. This will include social media accounts you may hold. This will only be carried out on shortlisted candidates and before interview. This processing of data will be conducted under the legal basis of Article 6(e) public task in line with the guidance laid out in para 221 of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2023. Any data collected during this search will be retained in line with our retention schedule which is available on request. You are encouraged to read our safeguarding policy which can be found on our website.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered 'protected' and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders- act-1974

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About

Bishop Vesey's Grammar School

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Bishop Vesey's Grammar School

Lichfield Road, Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands
B74 2NH
United Kingdom

+44 121 2505400

WELCOME MESSAGE FROM THE HEADTEACHER

Thank you for your interest in Bishop Vesey's Grammar School. We trust that you will find our school to be a lively and dynamic institution, which leads all who live and work here to a new vision of their potential.


Students here are expected to aim for academic excellence, get involved in the life of the school and help to maintain the high standards of interpersonal relationships on which we all depend.


Students are challenged to reach for what is beyond their immediate grasp and aspire to great things for the benefit of others.


Bishop Vesey's Grammar School is a community which has the potential to produce future leaders in society who will help to redefine and improve the world in which we live.


Through the information on our website, we hope to give you a glimpse of the nature of life at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School. By far the best way to find out about our school is to come in and meet students and staff.

Dominic Robson BA (Hons) NPQH

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