Previous health information experience is not essential as all training on specialist resources, systems and software will be given. You will be selfdirected,motivated, with a desire to help and support people to learn and develop. You will work primarily within the Library and LearningResource areas based at St Marys Hospital with some requirements to travel to other locality-based locations on the Island including QA Hospital in Portsmouth. Course Fees will be provided, and a contribution will be available for travel/accommodation for the residential weeks. Study time will be provided for the residential components of the programme. Subject to successfully completing the Diploma/Degree/Masters you will be eligible to apply for a post of Clinical Outreach Librarian. To lead on the provision of the literature searching service, to promote and provide training in literature searching and use of electronic resources to all groups of staff and students. To lead on provision of individualised current awareness and alerting services to regularly bring clinical and managerial staff the latest published information in their field to their desktops, through testing, developing, and evaluating the necessary tools and providing appropriate user training. Specific responsibility to focus on proactively seeking out opportunities to engage with staff in their workplaces to motivate and enable them toaccess the evidence-base at the point of need in support of clinical decision-making, using primary and secondary sources available through the Knowledge and Library Services Hub, clinical and management bibliographic databases (e.g. Medline, HMIC) and specialist websites. To assist with formalised gathering of user feedback to inform effective decision-making for provision of a portfolio of library and informationresources equitable for all staff groups and within the budget available. To catalogue new resources to local network standards using the Wessex Classification Scheme. To cover the main library enquiry desk in the absence of the Library Assistant and deputise for the Knowledge & Library Services Manager asnecessary. Please note your application may be transferred to the Isle of Wight Applicant Tracking System (ATS) if you are selected for an interview.