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The role
Wimbledon High School is looking for an enthusiastic, friendly and efficient administrator to support the smooth running of our senior library.
As a Library and Administrative Assistant, you will assist the School Librarian in creating and maintaining a welcoming and inspiring space for students and colleagues to study independently.
Drawing on your love of reading, you will supervise students and help them choose and find books, whilst also dealing with enquiries from staff and students. You will also assist with book displays, stocktaking and general tidiness.
Alongside your duties in the library, you will undertake general administrative tasks that support the academic life of the school.
About you
You will be an approachable and personable individual, who is able to engage and inspire others and can talk authoritatively about children's and young adult literature.
You will need strong communication, organisational and research skills, and will be able to work collaboratively with a range of staff and students aged from 11 to 18. ICT skills and proficiency in MS Office will also be essential, along with a willingness to learn our library management software.
About the School
Since 1880, Wimbledon High School GDST has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. Our acclaimed pastoral programme GROW, enriching co-curricular opportunities, character-forging partnerships and our 'playful scholarship' approach to academic life make for a compelling environment where every individual can flourish and be herself. Located in the heart of Wimbledon, we are less than 20 minutes from central London.
Benefits
As part of the Girls' Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:

• Competitive salaries and pay progression
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• GDST Flexible Pension Plan (Details from:
  https://workplace.aviva.co.uk/gdst/)
• Training grants for qualifications
• Free life assurance benefit
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
• A Cycle to Work scheme
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment

For further details and an application form please click the apply button.
Application deadline: 9.00am on Tuesday 8 October 2024.
Interview date: Wednesday 16 October 2024.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening including online searches will apply to this post.

An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:

• Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness

• Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder

• Promoting excellent teaching and learning

• Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme