Assistant Librarian

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
**We are seeking to recruit an Assistant Librarian to join our dynamic and dedicated team, providing high quality library and knowledge services to the staff, students and partner organisations of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.**

You will contribute to the provision of an expert evidence search service, deliver information skills training programmes and undertake outreach visits to promote and develop our services.

The post is based at Royal Oldham Hospital and the postholder will also work across all hospital and community sites within the Northern Care Alliance.

You will manage the site library at Royal Oldham Hospital, and may provide line management for library assistant staff. The post holder will be a qualified librarian, with a minimum of 12 months library experience.

**Main duties of the job**:

- Participate in the Evidence Search Service by undertaking expert literature searches and evidence summaries to support clinical and management decision making, education and research.
- Contribute to the design and delivery of information skills training programmes, to provide library customers with proficiency in accessing electronic resources, retrieving information and digital literacy skills.
Participate in an Outreach Service by proactively liaising with departments and specialties to ascertain customer needs, and embed library and knowledge services into departmental workstreams.
- Manage the day to day operation of the site library at Royal Oldham Hospital.
- Provide line management for Library Assistant staff as required.
- Engage in marketing activities to promote the resources and services provided by the Library and Knowledge Service.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Degree or postgraduate qualification in librarianship/information science/Knowledge Management

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Proven experience of working in a library/ information management environment

**Knowledge and Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ability to conduct expert literature searches
- Ability to make expert use of specialist databases and NHS information sources
- Ability to provide training to groups of adults
- Well-developed interpersonal skills, enabling effective communication with staff at all levels
- Ability to manage staff
- High standard of written English
- Attention to detail

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