Information Specialist

3 weeks ago


Truro, United Kingdom Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Cornwall Health Library provides health information and resources to healthcare staff and students across the county of Cornwall. We pride ourselves on contributing to patient care by offering evidence and training to our diverse user groups which include; all NHS staff roles, general practitioners, hospice staff, paramedics and medical, dental, nursing and midwifery students.. The main library is based in the Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site and provides a physical space that supports our users’ work, learning and wellbeing.

Our library team is friendly and works hard to support each other. We need a new team member with a library qualification or other relevant experience to help us provide our excellent service.

**The role is focussed on**:

- Retrieving the best evidence through searching a range of resources to inform patient care, service provision and research.
- Teaching search and critical appraisal skills,
- The postholder will work towards carrying out systematic literature reviews and offering expertise and teaching in the critical appraisal of research.
- Pro-actively identifying and leading on engagement opportunities.

We are looking for a skilled, pro-active, confident and compassionate individual to join our team.

This is an exciting role, where the post-holder will have the opportunity to develop their library and leadership skills whilst supported by a knowledgeable and caring team.

This post will be based in Cornwall Health Library on the Treliske site in Truro for 2.5 days per week.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is the biggest provider of healthcare services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Our three main sites are Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro, St Michael’s Hospital Hayle and West Cornwall Hospital Penzance, our staff and services are available across the region.

The Trust employs 5,000+ staff, has a budget of £380 million and 750 beds. We work with health and social care organisations -including NHS Kernow and NHS England
- to ensure local healthcare needs are met. We provide acute medical, surgical and specialist services to around 500,000- which can increase significantly during busy holiday periods.

The Trust has teaching hospitals status as part of the University of Exeter Medical School. Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we continually develop clinical services and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care offered locally.

We can offer you a rewarding career in a supportive working environment. We have extensive educational links to help you realise your full potential and develop skills to provide outstanding healthcare to the local community.

Enjoy an outstanding quality of life in a place that offers surfing beaches and fishing harbours to beautiful countryside and historic towns. With clean air, plenty of opportunities for outdoor activities and excellent schools, colleges and universities (including adult education) it is the ideal place for families and for you to develop your own career.

Take specific responsibility for providing library services to NHS users and stakeholders.

Contributing to library strategic planning for the service as a whole as part of the Library Management Team

Responsible for design, delivery and promotion of library teaching & training programme

Responsible for implementation and administration of systems allowing access to full text electronic resources

Research support including undertaking literature searches, assisted searches and systematic reviews

To be dedicated Information Specialist for theSouth West Clinical School in Cornwall

Providing synthesised evidence services

Line management opportunity of the Senior Library Assistant/s
In addition, the postholder will participate in professional library activities such as collection development, cataloguing and classification.



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