Clinical Librarian

This post is a fixed term position to cover a maternity leave absence. The post holder will support the information needs of identified Clinical Management Groups (CMGs) and play a vital role in providing a professional information service directly to the medical, nursing, midwifery, allied health and other staff of the Trust.

Clinical Librarianship is a proactive approach to supporting the use of evidence-based medicine in the clinical setting. By providing highly specific, quality filtered, patient centred information to clinicians, the Clinical Librarian is an integral part of the decision-making process.

The Clinical Librarian undertakes complex enquiry work to answer clinical and research queries from UHL Trust staff using specialist knowledge resources.

**The post holder will**:
- Use considerable initiative to develop the clinical librarian role in the Trust.
- Use excellent public relations skills to promote the role in a clinical, multidisciplinary setting.
- Undertake complex clinical and research queries on behalf of Trust staff.
- Deliver training in information and research skills.
- Provide tailored current awareness services.
- Assist in maintaining and developing service wide systems, facilities and services.

The post holder will be expected to show initiative and good organisational and customer care skills and work with minimum supervision over long periods of time, including cross site project work.

We are one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the country, incorporating the General, Glenfield and Royal Infirmary hospitals. We have our very own Children’s Hospital and run one of the country’s leading heart centres.

Our team is made up of more than 17,000 staff providing a range of services primarily for the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We work with partners at the University of Leicester and De Montfort University providing world-class teaching to nurture and develop the next generation of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, many of whom go on to spend their working lives with us.

Our purpose is to provide ‘Caring at its best’ and our staff have helped us create a set of values that embody who we are and what we’re here to do. They are:

- We focus on what matters most
- We treat others how we would like to be treated
- We are passionate and creative in our work
- We do what we say we are going to do
- We are one team and we are best when we work together

Our patients are at the heart of all we do and we believe that ‘Caring at its best’ is not just about the treatments and services we provide, but about giving our patients the best possible experience.

About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (leicestershospitals.nhs.uk)

Service Delivery & Development
- The post holder will work as a member of selected multi-disciplinary trust-wide clinical teams to provide highly specific, patient centred, evaluated information at the time and place of need. This will involve attending ward rounds, audit meetings, clinics and other multi-disciplinary meetings.
- Use an expert knowledge of searching online databases to perform mediated literature searches.
- Deliver training in information skills on a one-to-one or group basis.
- Provide the evidence for local guidelines and other evidence-based projects.
- Use critical appraisal skills to select and evaluate relevant information, and prepare evidence summaries or digests.
- Promote the development of critical appraisal skills in the Trust by supporting local journal clubs.
- Examine how the information provided is disseminated within departments and how the clinical team act upon the information.
- Attend conferences, workshops, seminars, and read widely to horizon scan and maintain knowledge of changing trends, technologies and developments in consumer health information, implementing staffing and procedure improvements as appropriate.
- Undertake regular audit of the service to review current working practices and the effectiveness of the service and to implement changes where appropriate.
- Monitor and contribute to local, regional and national health information developments.

Information Technology
- Work with IM&T to use current technology to provide the evidence base in the clinical setting and make recommendations on developments in this area.
- Work with the Trust’s IM&T department on the feasibility of integrating knowledge resources and information for patients with the electronic patient record using mobile technologies.
- Assist in the joint development of a database of information requests and responses.
- Contribute to national developments in the use of IT to disseminate search results.

Planning & Organisation
- Promote evidence-based practice in the Trust.
- Contribute to the library services’ training programmes in the use of electronic databases, critical appraisal and evidence-based practice skills.
- In conjunction with clinicians pro