What will you be doing?
The position involves driving predetermined routes in mostly rural villages across Cambridgeshire, including visits to schools, sheltered & residential accommodation and regular village/town locations.
You will be delivering a library service from the vehicle and responding to customer queries,
About you
1. Competent and confident with driving large vehicles in both urban and rural settings. A C1 entitlement to drive vehicles up to 7.5t is necessary to drive our Mobile Libraries.
2. Able to create a friendly and welcoming environment for a diverse range of customers
3. Confident in using IT (training will be given on specific library systems)
4. Excellent at multi-tasking, efficient, happy to work under pressure & confident with working alone on a Mobile Library.
5. Passionate about what public libraries offer, and able to promote our services.
6. Library experience is desirable, but we also welcome candidates who have demonstrated exceptional customer service elsewhere.
Please note library work can be physically demanding.
Staff may also occasionally be asked to cover other roles within Cambridgeshire libraries.
Some evening and weekend working may be required to attend promotional events, acting as a representative of the Library Service, The County Council and partner organisations.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage
7. A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
8. Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
9. Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
10. Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
11. Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
12. Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
13. Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
14. Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
15. An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes