Band 3 Library Assistant - Library and Knowledge Services
The closing date is 27th Jan 2025
Job summary
University Hospitals Birmingham Library and Knowledge Services (LKS) operates over four hospital sites, delivering services to over 22,000 staff and students on placement. The key aims of the LKS are to support evidence-based practice, research, patient care, and clinical and managerial decision-making.
This Library Assistant role is based at Solihull Hospital. It is a part-time position, working 18.75 hours a week. The post holder will work closely with a team of librarians and other library assistants to provide customer service to our diverse user base.
The responsibilities of the post are broad and wide-ranging. These include:
1. Being the first point of contact for library users, answering a range of enquiries and triaging more complex enquiries to the relevant member of the team.
2. Providing technical assistance to users.
3. Inducting new users and sharing relevant knowledge of services and resources.
4. Maintaining both physical and digital resource collections to provide an efficient document supply service.
5. Recording Literature Search requests onto a shared database, alerting the librarians to new searches and gathering impact when searches are complete.
6. Supporting the marketing and promotion of library services and resources.
7. Contributing to service development through active engagement in task and finish groups and team meetings.
8. Maintaining the library space by shelving, tidying, and reporting issues to the relevant departments.
Although the position is based at Solihull Hospital, occasionally cross-site working may be required.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
1. Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment to offering flexible working where we can.
2. Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reaches their true potential, achieves their ambitions, and thrives in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture that empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected, and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
* GCSE A-C (or 4-9) or equivalent in maths and English OR Functional Skills
Experience
* Use of a library for research or study.
* Customer Service Experience.
For help with your application, contact:
Laura Walsh
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9005589
Job locations
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