Employer: United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Grantham & District Hospital
Town: Grantham
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 (pro rata for part-time/job share)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/02/2025 23:59
Clinical Librarian - Band 6
NHS AfC: Band 6
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our values guide everything we do. They are:
* Patient-centred: Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
* Safety: Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
* Excellence: Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
* Compassion: Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
* Respect: Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
Job overview
This post will not commence until May 2025
An exciting job opportunity has arisen within the United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s Library and Knowledge Services team. We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced individual to join our team to work as a Clinical Librarian.
The Library and Knowledge Services team delivers library services and resources to all staff working at United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust, and Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. We aim to support and enhance clinical practice and patient care, personal and professional development, education and training, organisational and service development and research.
Main duties of the job
This role will lead on proactively supporting and engaging with clinical staff working either in a clinical setting on a hospital site, or remotely, to promote the value of embedding evidence-based practice into supporting effective clinical governance, informed decision-making and safe patient care.
Acting as a key point of contact you will facilitate and promote clinical outreach activities and a programme of resource discovery demonstrations and information skills training sessions to raise the visibility of library services or resources, and to help increase user engagement and usage.
You must be able to work flexibly, both independently and as a team player, proposing and implementing projects or ideas that contribute to the development, promotion and delivery of a user focused, high quality NHS Library and Knowledge Service.
This role can be delivered flexibly with a mix of home-based remote working and on site working. The post holder will be required to work cross-site at the main hospital sites (Lincoln County Hospital Grantham and District Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital) and other Trust locations, as well as their primary base. Travel between hospital sites and community sites in Lincolnshire will also be required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Professional Registration at Chartership Level (MCLIP)
* Training or Teaching qualification
* European Computer Driving Licence or equivalent IT qualification
* Mentoring or coaching qualification
Experience
* Practical experience working in a NHS library or similar healthcare knowledge or information service
* Experience of supporting library user enquiries; searching, retrieving and summarising information from a range of electronic and print information resources
* Experience of collaborative team working and demonstrable ability to work unsupervised and to prioritise own workload
* Experience of supporting researchers conducting systematic reviews
* Experience of designing and delivering database and literature searching, critical appraisal and health literacy training sessions to individual or groups of learners
* Experience of marketing and promoting library services and resources, including organising outreach or resource discovery activities, and designing promotional materials
* Experience of working with Koha or similar electronic library management system
* Experience of designing and managing the content of Intranet/Internet pages
* Experience of promoting library services and resources to individual clinical staff or teams to support patient decision-making or service improvements
* Experience of promoting collaborative knowledge sharing using knowledge mobilisation techniques and tools
* Experience of using user experience methodologies to improve library services
Specific Requirements
* Current driving licence and ability to travel across Lincolnshire
* Commitment to own continuing professional development
ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy.
Please note that we do not accept CVs.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.
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