Outreach Librarian

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

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Job summary

A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time Outreach Librarian to join Worcestershire Health Libraries. We are a small, innovative, and friendly team seeking an enthusiastic and professional member of staff. We have four sites across Worcestershire and a team of nine staff

You will work across the Worcestershire health economy working with multiple organisations

The post will play a vital role in the provision of quality filtered and evaluated research evidence directly to health professionals to support decision making and will support evidence-based practice, teaching, learning, continuing professional development and research.

The post will involve the delivering training programmes in evidence-based information seeking and the delivery of these programmes as well as representing Library and Knowledge Services at Trust and departmental inductions.

The post holder will oversee and manage the site and staff at Kidderminster Education centre, currently consisting of two paraprofessional staff members.

Main duties of the job

Key Duties:

Work closely with the Clinical Librarian in the development and delivery of outreach librarian services
Responsible for the delivery of expert searches, targeted current awareness and critical appraisal services for clinical, senior managerial and commissioning staff. This involves:

Working as a member of selected multi-disciplinary trust-wide clinical teams to provide highly specific, patient centred and evaluated information at the time and place of need;
Using critical appraisal skills to select and evaluate relevant information, and expert knowledge of searching online databases to perform mediated literature searches;
Examining how the information provided is disseminated within departments and reporting how the clinical team acts upon the information.

Develop proactive anticipatory alerting and professional updating services such as production of electronic current awareness bulletins and supply of contents tables to maintain users awareness of current developments in their field.
Effectively market and promote services to users, monitoring the effectiveness of initiatives using both qualitative and qualitative measuring techniques, e.g. audits, surveys, focus group meetings, and producing reports.
In conjunction with colleagues, investigate the possibilities of using new technology in enhancing access to the knowledge base.
Conduct surveys to determine user needs according to policies and procedures.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

Best services for local people
Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
Best use of resources
Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Date posted

05 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £30,639 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9365-24-0159

Job locations

Kidderminster General Hospital

Bewdley Road

Kidderminster

Worcestershire

DY11 6RJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose:

The post holder will liaise with the Clinical Librarian on the Outreach Service and work closely with them. The post holder will then be responsible for delivering an Outreach Service including searches, inductions and training services. This service will include outreach to departments and hospitals as appropriate. Similar services will be developed for clinical and non-clinical staff.

The post holder will oversee and manage the site and staff at Kidderminster Education centre, currently consisting of two paraprofessional staff members.

Key Duties:

Outreach services

Work closely with the Clinical Librarian in the development and delivery of outreach librarian services

Responsible for the delivery of expert searches, targeted current awareness and critical appraisal services for clinical, senior managerial and commissioning staff. This involves:

oWorking as a member of selected multi-disciplinary trust-wide clinical teams to provide highly specific, patient centred and evaluated information at the time and place of need;

oUsing critical appraisal skills to select and evaluate relevant information, and expert knowledge of searching online databases to perform mediated literature searches;

oExamining how the information provided is disseminated within departments and reporting how the clinical team acts upon the information.

Develop proactive anticipatory alerting and professional updating services such as production of electronic current awareness bulletins and supply of contents tables to maintain users awareness of current developments in their field.

Effectively market and promote services to users, monitoring the effectiveness of initiatives using both qualitative and qualitative measuring techniques, e.g. audits, surveys, focus group meetings, and producing reports.

Help maintain internet and intranet pages to publicise and provide access to outreach services provided.

In conjunction with colleagues, investigate the possibilities of using new technology in enhancing access to the knowledge base.

Deliver other specialist services with non-clinical partners e.g. Procurement, commissioning groups and operational procedures.

Conduct surveys to determine user needs according to policies and procedures.

Provision of User Training and other Evidence-based Services

Provide evidence-based literature searches accompanied by

oA summary of the results listing the databases searched and highlighting the evidence found

oFull text articles when appropriate.

Working with the Deputy and Clinical Librarian develop, promote and deliver user training programmes in evidence-based information seeking, literature searching and critical appraisal;

Develop, promote, and deliver induction programmes to all staff and students, to complement Trust induction programmes.

Assist in organising print and electronic knowledge resources using nationally recognised professional cataloguing and indexing techniques to ensure effective information retrieval. This includes developing taxonomies for electronic document management.

Assist with the NCRS Registration Authority for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in the registration and issuing of smartcards.

Site and staff Management

Oversee the running of the Kidderminster Education Centre

oordering stationery and equipment as required

oproviding statistics of use

Support the administrative duties of the Library & Informatics Assistant/ Learning Centre Administrator in:

otaking room bookings and general enquiries

oassisting trainers and visitors in their use of the centre

In the absence of the Library & Informatics Assistant/ Learning Centre Administrator:

oproduce a weekly schedule of events

oset up audio/visual equipment and video-conferencing facilities for training events

oliaise with departments that support the working of the centre, e.g. housekeeping, catering, estates and portering.

Line manage the paraprofessional staff at Kidderminster Education centre by

oEnsuring appropriate personal and professional development opportunities are available. That includes conducting annual personal development reviews (PDRs) and the setting of personal and team objectives supported by personal development plans.

oEnsuring that all mandatory training is undertaken.

oMonitoring the level and standard of work undertaken by and guide, coach and advice as appropriate. Provide briefing before and debriefing after training and development activities

Personal development

Responsible for maintaining own professional competence through CPD activities and maintaining a portfolio which reflects personal development.

Participates in the staff personal development scheme as an appraiser and an appraisee and is responsible for complying with an agreed personal development plan.

Attends conferences, workshops and seminars run by professional organisations such as CILIP and Health Library Groups regionally and nationally to share best practice and maintain awareness of current developments and changing technologies in health and social care librarianship and knowledge management and the information and communications industry locally, nationally and internationally. Cascades learning to the Worcestershire Knowledge Management Team.

Keeps up to date with developments within the NHS and social care services locally and nationally by attending meetings, reading NHS publications and joining e-conferences.

Mandatory training for Registration Authority Agents is required and attendance at relevant update training will be encouraged where appropriate.