Lrc Manager

IMJobs; Norwich; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 19,000; Full time

Job summary

IMJobs is seeking a dedicated LRC Supervisor to manage daily operations of the school Library Resource Centre. You will run the LRC, provide a full library service to staff and students, and oversee cataloguing, stock control, and reporting.

You will promote literacy through displays, reading lists, and involvement in literacy meetings, while training staff and coordinating reading programmes and year-group reading support. The role is based in Norwich, with a 37-hour week over 40 weeks per year.

Qualifications

• Experience organising and managing a learning resource centre or school library.
• Ability to operate a library management system for day-to-day lending, cataloguing and stock control.
• Strong interpersonal skills to promote literacy and support students and staff.

Responsibilities

• Organise the LRC and supervise its operations.
• Provide day-to-day library service to staff and students using the LMS.
• Issue and return items, manage overdue loans and communications with parents.
• Catalogue, classify and create keyword indices for stock.
• Promote reading through displays, reading lists, and literacy meetings.
• Train adults in reading with students and support reading programmes.
• Organise and timetable after-school reading support and Year 7/8 reading lessons.
• Collate databases, reports and statistics; liaise with website manager for event reporting.

Skills

Library management

Customer service

LMS software

Reading promotion

Teamwork

Tools

Sparx Reader

LMS (Library Management System)

Job description

To supervise the LRC on a daily basis, running the LRC and carrying out a range of associated administrative duties

Responsibilities, but not limited to:

• To organise the LRC
• To use the computerised Library Management System to provide a day to day library service to staff and students, including:
  • Issues and returns
  • Overdue loans and letters to parents
  • Cataloguing, classifying and key words
  • Genre/recommended reading lists
  • Stock control
  • Reports, e.g. statistics
• Promote literacy, and the LRC, through the use of displays and reading lists, and attend literacy meetings within the school
• Carry out research and maintain links in order to identify and purchase new stock
• Maintain an appropriate working environment in the LRC
• Supervise LRC computers and assist students when required
• Run year 7 or 8 reading lessons as required by the timetable
• Keeping up-to-date and aware of the latest recommended reading for relevant age groups
• Encourage reading and inspire a love of literature
• Train other adults in reading with students (on own, together and in groups)
• Provide recommendations and support for additional reading programmes as necessary
• Organise and timetable 6th form reading support
• Organise testing on Sparx Reader for key stage 3
• Organise the annual 'Book Buzz' event
• Organise reading week
• Organise reading celebrations at the end of each term
• Supervise after-school activities that take place in the LRC
• Support the running of extracurricular clubs within the LRC
• Collate and maintain shared databases
• Liaise with the school's website manager regarding reporting school events
• Oversee the creation and compilation of the Year Book
• Support with immunisations staffing
• Support with attendance home visits, as required
• Carry out LRC induction sessions for new students
• Photograph new students (other than at year 7 and 12 transition), and new staff

Start Date: ASAP

Salary: Scale D, Point 6 - 7, £13.91 - £14.13/hour approx £23,581 - £23,956 (FTE £26,847 -£27,274 per annum) Please note salary will be pro rata.

Hours: 37 hours per week, 40 weeks per year