Assistant Librarian

This post offers the opportunity for an experienced librarian to develop existing, and gain new, skills including taking advantage of the excellent links and collaborative opportunities offered. You will be a compassionate, accountable individual who treats all colleagues, patients and service users with respect and seeks to deliver excellence in their role. You will share the Trust values and be committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. The role will support the library to develop services to meet the need of all staff groups, reaching beyond the traditional library users of doctors and nursing staff.

**The post holder will**:

- Evidence searching and synthesis.
- Critical appraisal of health literature.
- Design and delivery of user education sessions.
- Management of e-resources in the library environment.
- Utilisation of Content-Management Systems to deliver effective Intranet/Internet pages.
- Marketing and Promotion of Library Services.
- Cataloguing of documents and electronic resources.
- Document delivery and retrieval from a variety of sources.
- Delivery of Current Awareness Services.
- Analysis of service data such as usage statistics.
- Ownership of work-based projects.
- Attend and share learning experience from Library Network, National Network CPD opportunities.
- Work in partnership with other health libraries across the CLIKS group in Cheshire and the LIHNN Networks
- Attend Trust wide forums as appropriate, to share updates relating to KLS (such as Educational Governance Group)

Actively collaborate with the Integrated Care System, Stockport Public Libraries, and other relevant organisations.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union
- for local financial advice

Main

**Responsibilities**:

- Participate in the design, delivery and evaluation of training and support materials in a wide variety of topics such as searching and using evidence-based resources, grey literature and using point of care tools, critical appraisal, reflective writing, using both face-to-face and online learning environments e.g., Zoom or Webex.
- Providing service users with specialised, synthesised and high-quality literature searches to support staff with clinical and non-clinical decision making.
- Facilitating knowledge sharing meetings and events.
- Assisting in the design and delivery of a programme of marketing and promotional activities mainly through social media. The aim of this programme is to reach under-represented staff groups outside of the traditional nurse and medical staff user base.
- Utilising and maintaining online tools/resources and evidence alert services.
- Collation of statistics and case studies demonstrating service impact.
- Administrative support to support the day-to-day running of the library.

Responsibilities for data and information resources
- Ensure all Trust data protection policies are adhered to.
- Collate, manage, and analyse data as required through expected reporting mechanisms (e.g., Educational Governance Group).
- Ensure records accurate, timely and complete.
- Develop and maintain systems which enable the Trust to collect, summarise and report accurate statistical, quantitative, and narrative information regarding the Knowledge and Library Services

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.