Band 3 Library Assistant-Library and Knowledge Services

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.

Main duties of the job

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 a customer service to our diverse user base.

The responsibilities of the post are broad and wide ranging. These include:

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

providing technical assistance to users

inducting new users and sharing relevant knowledge of services and resources

maintaining both physical and digital resource collections to provide an efficient document supply service

recording Literature Search requests onto a shared database, alerting the librarians to new searches and gathering impact when searches are complete

supporting the marketing and promotion of library services and resources

contributing to service development through active engagement in task and finish groups and team meetings

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:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer 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 reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive 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 which 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.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Solihull Hospital

Lode Ln

Solihull

West Midlands

B91 2JL

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Solihull Hospital

Lode Ln

Solihull

West Midlands

B91 2JL

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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