Librarian

Shorefields; Braintree; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Tabor Academy invites applications for an experienced Library Manager to join our successful Multi Academy Trust at Panfield Lane, Braintree, Essex. You will lead a dedicated team, promote a vibrant reading culture, and ensure high standards of safeguarding and pupil welfare in an ICT-rich learning environment.

The post is term time only plus 3 weeks and 36 hours per week, with a salary band of £24,648 to £29,421 per annum (NJC Band 3, SCP 6-17).

Job description

Position Start Date: 01/12/2026 Contract Type: Full-time/Part-time Contract Term: Permanent

Application Close: 23/10/2026 Midnight Date of Interviews: ongoing

We are seeking to appoint an ambitious, highly effective and experienced Library Manager to join our very successful, heavily over-subscribed Multi Academy Trust with an outstanding ethos where staff are supported to become the best.

This position is available at Tabor Academy, Panfield Lane, Braintree Essex CM7 5XP.

Our commitment to your professional development can be seen in our Investors in People status. We treat children as individuals and we are strongly committed to equality of opportunity. Rated recently as 'outstanding' for a second time by Ofsted, our high VA scores have been commended and our academic attainment continues to improve. We have maintained this level of excellence and have recently moved into a brand new learning environment.

Our ICT rich environment promotes learning both in the classroom and elsewhere. You will have the exciting opportunity to work alongside a highly motivated, supportive and well qualified team of teachers and support staff.

Like us, you will be dynamic, innovative and hardworking. You will also have exceptional knowledge on attendance legislation, a desire to positively impact upon students' learning and a firm commitment to high academic achievement. Above all you will be dedicated to giving all our students an outstanding education.

The successful candidate will be:

• An excellent practitioner who can enthuse and inspire.
• Passionate about raising aspirations and improving educational life chances.
• Able to demonstrate a proven track record of leading improvement.
• A role model and champion of learning.
• Clear-thinking and outward-looking.
• Dynamic, innovative and hardworking.
• A leader who is able to demonstrate high-level interpersonal skills.

You will:

• Join a skilled, creative, and supportive team.
• Be part of a forward thinking organisation with Training School status.
• Have a chance to shape the future of the area.
• Work within a brand new, well resourced specialist learning environment.
• Be given the opportunity to develop personally and professionally
• Make a real difference to the lives of young people.

Please feel free to visit our school website on www.loxford.net.

The post is [Term Time Only plus 3 weeks] and 36 hours per week.

NJC Band 3, SCP 6- 17 (England and Wales): £24,648 to £29,421 per annum.

If you have any questions regarding the post or are unable to apply on line, please contact speak toSarah Bayly on 01376 323 701 or email [e-mail]

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS record check.

We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date if we consider that we have received an appropriate number of suitable applications for the post.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.

Sarah Bayly
Panfield Lane, Braintree
Essex, CM7 5XP Telephone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]