Librarian

We are looking for an enthusiastic, positive, experienced and motivated professionally qualified librarian to join us. This post offers an exciting opportunity to join a successful and experienced NHS LKS team delivering high quality and much valued library services to staff and students across a specialist orthopaedic Trust. Our mission is to ensure all Trust staff and students have access to and can make use of the knowledge base to underpin patient care, service improvement, education, lifelong learning, research and innovation

You will work across the Trust, engaging with staff to prove that proactive information services can save them time and help them do their jobs better, ensuring the delivery of world class patient care. This will include the delivery of expert searches and targeted current awareness. You will also deliver training programmes in evidence-based information seeking. You will have strong literature searching skills and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

You’ll be a good communicator, sharing responsibility for marketing and promotion at group inductions and Trust events, facilitating access to networked and web based services.

Contributing to monitoring the effectiveness and quality of the library service is also a key element of this post.

**For more information or an informal chat please contact**:
Lis Edwards, Head of Knowledge & Learning

**Tel**: 01691 404287,

To support evidence based practice, patient care and decision making across the Trust by delivering high quality, user-centred library and knowledge services to Trust staff and students.

To carry out outreach and engagement work across the Trust to embed evidence services and resources as core to the organisation. Engaging with senior managers, service leads and clinicians and other Trust staff, attending meetings and events as required.

To ensure the ongoing provision of library services at RJAH including the day to day management of electronic resources and the provision of front line library services

To undertake literature searches and to deliver information skills training to support the delivery of world class patient care.

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic NHS Trust (RJAH) is one of the leading orthopaedic hospitals in the country, with some of the highest levels of staff and patient satisfaction, as well as a strong reputation for research and innovation.

Joining RJAH is more than just a job - we want our people to have the best opportunities to thrive in their role.

We have a range of fantastic staff benefits on offer to everyone who joins RJAH and you'll have access to outstanding professional development opportunities and state-of-the-art facilities - including our recently-opened £6 million Headley Court Veterans’ Orthopaedic Centre (the first unit of its kind in the UK).

RJAH has strong links with a range of universities including Staffordshire, Keele, Glyndwr, Chester and Birmingham.

The hospital is located on a site outside Oswestry in Oswestry, just off the A5. The nearest train station is in Gobowen, approximately two miles from the hospital. The station is part of the Chester to Birmingham line.

We are based in North Shropshire, close to the border with North and Mid Wales. It is one of the most attractive parts of the country, with a rich historic culture and excellent transport links. It offers outstanding opportunities for anyone who enjoys an outdoor lifestyle or is looking to raise a family.

Work with the library team to identify the most effective ways to meet the information needs of Trust staff and students, and implement agreed actions to meet them.

Maintain excellent customer service and relationships through a positive attitude and commitment to a user-driven service.

Work with the library team to provide a high quality, user-centred library service and foster good working relationships within the team and with library users.

Deliver front line services for library users, including library inductions, answering enquiries and the delivery of any aspect of operational library work as required

Deliver information skills training to groups and individuals enabling them to effectively undertake literature searches and access electronic resources.

Liaise with departments and wards to ensure their information needs are met, and to support service delivery. Develop and maintain relationships with clinical and non-clinical staff and help mobilise knowledge.

Market and promote the library service to Trust staff and students by a variety of means including the use of social media, the intranet and the library website.

Undertake complex literature searches tailored to users’ needs, choosing appropriate electronic resources and using agreed methodology. These may include information summaries or syntheses if required, analysing findings and judging suitability of results, ensuring high quality information to support patient care, management decision makin