Library Assistant

2 weeks ago


Oxford, United Kingdom University of Oxford Full time

The Bodleian Health Care Libraries is looking for a full-time library assistant with excellent customer service skills. You will help provide library services to the staff and students in the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division

The post will be based at the Cairns Library at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington, with duties at other Bodleian Health Care Library sites as necessary. There will be some occasions when you will work on your own.

The Bodleian Health Care Libraries are located at three sites in Headington - the John Radcliffe Hospital, the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Old Road Campus Research Building - and at the Horton Hospital in Banbury. The Libraries’ main users are NHS staff in the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust; researchers and clinical students from the University of Oxford; and healthcare students from Oxford Brookes University.

Your main tasks will be welcoming readers; responding to simple enquiries; processing loans; reservations & membership registrations; answering IT queries & supporting the Outreach Team with literature searches for readers.

You will have customer service experience and excellent communication skills. You will have good computer & numeracy skills and be able to undertake a range of routine tasks with care and accuracy.

This is a fixed term post until 31st March 2025, working 36.5 hours per week. Single staffing the Cairns library between 5pm and 7pm Monday to Friday will be required on occasions.


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