Position Type: Part-time, 22.5 hours per week
Salary: Band 5 £29,970 - £36,483 (With Annex 21 training salary applied for 2 years)
We are recruiting for a Trainee Clinical Outreach Librarian who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "great people, great place".
You could be making a real difference to the quality of person-centred care on the Isle of Wight through enabling staff and learners access evidence for clinical and managerial decision making whilst studying for a Diploma or Degree in Library and Information.
We are looking to support the development and education of an individual who has excellent interpersonal skills, a customer focused approach that shares our organisational values.
You will assist the Knowledge & Library Services Manager (KLSM) facilitate the use of knowledge and information services for staff and learners across the Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust to support their work, research, and learning, ensuring all users have access to the right evidence, in the right place, at the right time.
You will have a minimum of a Level 3 (A-Level equivalent) qualification that meets the entry criteria to undertake an appropriate library qualification whilst developing into the role of a Clinical Outreach Librarian.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will assist the KLSM across both Isle of Wight and Portsmouth sites in providing, developing, and promoting library and knowledge services in support of education and research, continuous professional development (CPD) and the practice of evidence-based clinical and managerial decision making.
Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.
Job responsibilities
Previous health information experience is not essential as all training on specialist resources, systems and software will be given. You will be self-directed, motivated, with a desire to help and support people to learn and develop. You will work primarily within the Library and Learning Resource 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 to access 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 information resources 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 as necessary.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Aptitudes
* GCSE's minimum Grade C/4
* Level 3 Qualification in a relevant subject e.g. A Levels in English Language, Literature, Digital/Information Technologies, BTEC National Diploma
* Professionalism and self-direction and motivation; ability to prioritise under pressure
* Team worker with flexible approach
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Oliveira Library, Education Centre, St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
470-24-0067-COR
Job locations
Oliveira Library, Education Centre, St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight
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