Librarian

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a librarian for staff and students within community services at South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT). You will provide high quality services for evidence based practice, research, personal development, and well-being.

In this role you will join an experienced team in a combined Knowledge and Library Service (KLS), which covers both South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust and George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. While you will be based at Warwick Hospital, it is expected that you will visit the SWFT community sites, and occasionally George Eliot Hospital.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering knowledge and library services and is able to establish new relationships with our community teams. In previous roles you will have shown yourself to be confident and creative in liaising with teams and advocating for knowledge services.

The post holder will also be a qualified Librarian with a degree or equivalent. You will have knowledge of working in libraries and be willing to work towards CILIP Chartership. Knowledge of health libraries, while beneficial, is not essential. You must be a proven team player and be able to supervise junior members of staff, or deputise for the KLS Manager.

The post holder will support the provision of Knowledge and Library Services (KLS) at George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and South Warwickshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, including purchasing and cataloguing appropriate books, providing literature searches and information skills training. The post holder will work closely with the KLS team and Trust colleagues to support and promote evidence-based health care and ensure that the William Harvey Library meets user needs. The post is based at Warwick Hospital but may occasionally be required to work at George Eliot Hospital.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Communication & Relationship Skills
- Deliver information skills training to groups of library users so that they can effectively undertake complex literature searches.
- Market and promote library services to Trust staff and students on placement by a variety of means including the use of social media, the intranet and library website, to maximise library impact.
- Liaise as necessary with other trainers in the Trust, and with library staff in other trusts.

Analytical & Judgemental Skills
- Critically appraise complex research articles as required.
- Respond to user queries, performing complex literature searches as appropriate, to support evidence based practice, or resolving IT difficulties.
- Decide which books, journals and other library stock are best to purchase to meet user needs.

Planning and Organisational Skills
- Ensure that the Library service is fully staffed and maintained on a day to day basis, responding to staffing problems as they arise.
- Develop and manage the Library marketing plan, adapting it in response to changing service priorities.
- Work with the KLS team to deliver the Education and KLS strategies and plans.
- With the Clinical Librarians, devise the library training programme to meet user training needs.
- Ensure that the Library Quality audits take place.

Patient/Client Care
- Oversee the patient information leaflets system at GEH.

Responsibility for Policy/Service Development
- Ensure that the KLS team follow the library policies and procedures manual and propose changes when necessary. Works with Library Services Manager to ensure that changes are implemented.
- Assist the KLS Lead and Manager in completing the Quality Improvement and Outcomes Framework submission.

Responsibility for Financial & Physical Resources
- Handle cash for small payments.
- Responsible for the safe use of library equipment.
- Evaluate the cost effectiveness of books, and purchase those most likely to be used, keeping all expenditure within budget. The budget for such orders is around £7000 or more per year.

Responsibility for Human Resources
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