Library Assistant Apprenticeship - Ark John Keats Academy

ARK SCHOOLS

Enfield (EN3 5PA)

Closes in 24 days (Friday 12 December 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 12 November 2025

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Summary

Ark John Keats Academy are looking for an aspiring and enthusiastic candidate to join their team. This is a great opportunity to gain valuable experience within a library and gain a level 3 qualification to improve your career prospects.

Wage

£14,526 a year

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Wage increases to minimum of National Minimum Wage after 12 months

Training course
Library, information and archive services assistant (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 8am - 5pm, 1 hour lunch break.

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 5 January 2026

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

Manage the organisation of the school library so that books remain tidied into the categorised areas.

Oversee the stock in the library; co-ordinate with Curriculum Lead on available budget to order new books necessary to ensure we have a variety of different genres pitched at a variety of age groups.

Liaise with our partnered charity, Bookmark, on any other books/FirstNews articles they are delivering that can be used to stock the library.

Create a team of KS2 librarians who help tidy the library and create book recommendations for the library.

Keep the library inviting and ‘up-to-date’; showcasing new book stock or showcasing books that are connected to children’s current literacy, humanities and science topics.

Create and oversee a tracking system of library books, whether that is through scanning or using an Excel grid.

Create a timetable for classes to have library access once every two weeks.

Oversee class library sessions: including reading extracts of stories, sharing book recommendations from students and encouraging children to find different book genres/authors to suit them.

Book corners:

Ensure book corners in classrooms remain updated and well stocked.

Homework:

Work with Curriculum Lead on overseeing reading homework policy and how we can monitor and encourage children to read at home.

Reading interventions:

Oversee the AJK reading tracker and maintain that all children who have been identified as reading 2+ years below chronological reading age receive reading interventions, whether this is through 1:1 reading, Freshstart, Phonics or Lexonik.

Liaise with Phonics Lead on which children require phonics and Freshstart interventions and ensure this is logged on the tracker.

Create a half-termly timetable for focus children in Year 5 to receive Lexonik interventions.

Assist with 1:1 reading interventions with children who need additional reading support.

Provide the correct data to Ark for their reading tracker termly so they know ‘who’ is receiving interventions and ‘what type’ of interventions they are receiving.

DEAR ‘Drop Everything and Read’

Oversee DEAR ‘Drop Everything and Read’ sessions so that they happen three times a week in the timetable from Year 2-6:

Provide teachers with registers to record their 1:1 reading sessions.

Ensure all pupils Year 2-5 who are ‘off phonics’ are reading a Readerful book.

Ensure that children who are 2+years below are reading the appropriate Readerful Rise book in Year 5 and 6.

Assist teachers in advising when Readerful level needs changing.

Make sure that Readerful levels are updated on the tracker every half-term so we can track progress.

Ensure that all children on Fresh Start are reading a Fresh Start reader.

Co-ordinate with Curriculum Lead on the available budget to order new Readerful books that are necessary.

Whole school events:

Help English Lead organise Reading for Pleasure events, including Scholastic Book Fair, Books at Bedtime and World Book Day.

Where you'll work

Bell Lane
Enfield
EN3 5PA

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

LET ME PLAY LIMITED

Training course

Library, information and archive services assistant (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Interpret and implement policy, e.g. communicating clearly the basic copyright restrictions and reasons for not sharing personal data
  • Undertake regulation and compliance checking, e.g. in order to ensure data protection is not breached
  • Solve user problems in a range of situations using their knowledge and interpretation
  • Use information management processes to store, manage and retrieve records and data to support collaboration, exploitation and the organisation’s Information Management (IM) practices
  • Describe and arrange material/resources, by observing and applying identified cataloguing standards in order to create online catalogues and other finding aids to meet users’ needs
  • Employ information retrieval techniques to identify and use relevant media and systems, e.g. searching online databases, catalogues or physical stores, and EDRMS (electronic document record management systems)
  • Perform preservation (analogue/physical and digital) practices to keep collections physically safe using institutional/sector guidelines, and supporting work that provides digital access by creating alternatives that meet a range of user requirements
  • Use enquiry techniques to clarify and meet users’ information requirements and manage expectations, e.g. by signposting to alternative resources and providing solutions
  • Develop knowledge sharing with users, cultivating an environment where knowledge is freely shared and sought within a ‘safe’ environment, including online solutions
  • Use relevant approaches to learning support to contribute to the development of learning activities for different audiences to enhance knowledge and literacy, e.g. reader development
  • Select and use appropriate tools and technologies to support users in researching and disseminating information, e.g. databases, search engines, digital libraries, repositories and social media
  • Develop information and digital skills to support users to identify, find, access and evaluate information, to share knowledge and to promote self-help
  • Demonstrate information sharing by contributing to learning activities for specific audiences, e.g. inductions and events, catering to a variety of levels of knowledge and understanding
  • Use promotion techniques for resources so that users and potential users are aware of their value, impact and benefit, e.g. by curating collections and displays in effective ways, undertaking outreach activities to guide users to achieve independence in their use of information
  • Implement the organisation’s collection management policy, e.g. through identifying stock that should be acquired and that which is no longer used or needed, and relegating or removing these appropriately
  • Develop the service by assessing the learning environment and anticipating user needs, e.g. re-organising study/virtual spaces, suggesting improvements to catalogues or web pages
  • Use teamwork and collaboration to achieve goals, e.g. with stakeholders and partners beyond the organisation
  • Use information provision to enable users to access materials, e.g. through lending books/artefacts, emailing documents, accessing original archives, signposting links to information
  • Exercise communication skills - oral, written, presentation, interpersonal, listening, assertiveness (online and face to face)
  • Interpret and implement policy, e.g. communicating clearly the basic copyright restrictions and reasons for not sharing personal data
  • Undertake regulation and compliance checking, e.g. in order to ensure data protection is not breached
  • Solve user problems in a range of situations using their knowledge and interpretation
  • Use information management processes to store, manage and retrieve records and data to support collaboration, exploitation and the organisation’s Information Management (IM) practices
  • Describe and arrange material/resources, by observing and applying identified cataloguing standards in order to create online catalogues and other finding aids to meet users’ needs
  • Employ information retrieval techniques to identify and use relevant media and systems, e.g. searching online databases, catalogues or physical stores, and EDRMS (electronic document record management systems)
  • Perform preservation (analogue/physical and digital) practices to keep collections physically safe using institutional/sector guidelines, and supporting work that provides digital access by creating alternatives that meet a range of user requirements
  • Use enquiry techniques to clarify and meet users’ information requirements and manage expectations, e.g. by signposting to alternative resources and providing solutions
  • Develop knowledge sharing with users, cultivating an environment where knowledge is freely shared and sought within a ‘safe’ environment, including online solutions
  • Use relevant approaches to learning support to contribute to the development of learning activities for different audiences to enhance knowledge and literacy, e.g. reader development
  • Select and use appropriate tools and technologies to support users in researching and disseminating information, e.g. databases, search engines, digital libraries, repositories and social media
  • Develop information and digital skills to support users to identify, find, access and evaluate information, to share knowledge and to promote self-help
  • Demonstrate information sharing by contributing to learning activities for specific audiences, e.g. inductions and events, catering to a variety of levels of knowledge and understanding
  • Use promotion techniques for resources so that users and potential users are aware of their value, impact and benefit, e.g. by curating collections and displays in effective ways, undertaking outreach activities to guide users to achieve independence in their use of information
  • Implement the organisation’s collection management policy, e.g. through identifying stock that should be acquired and that which is no longer used or needed, and relegating or removing these appropriately
  • Develop the service by assessing the learning environment and anticipating user needs, e.g. re-organising study/virtual spaces, suggesting improvements to catalogues or web pages
  • Use teamwork and collaboration to achieve goals, e.g. with stakeholders and partners beyond the organisation
  • Use information provision to enable users to access materials, e.g. through lending books/artefacts, emailing documents, accessing original archives, signposting links to information
  • Exercise communication skills - oral, written, presentation, interpersonal, listening, assertiveness (online and face to face)

Training schedule

Library Information and Archive Services Level 3. 

Tutor support via online platform. 

20% off the job training. 

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and English (grade 4)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental

About this employer

Ark John Keats is a very proud member of the successful Ark network of schools. Our curriculum is academic, planned to prepare pupils for the best universities by emphasising mastery of knowledge and skills.

After this apprenticeship

Possible full-time employment upon completion of the apprenticeship. 

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LET ME PLAY LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000000383.

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Closes in 24 days (Friday 12 December 2025 at 11:59pm)

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