Community Library Assistant, Saturdays

3 weeks ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire County Council Full time

About the role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and versatile person to help us shape the future of Cambridgeshire Libraries. We maintain a high quality public library service, working in partnership with a range of other organizations and community groups.

Our Community Library Assistants are the first point of contact for members of the public who are visiting and using our Libraries, and consequently the role is varied and allows staff to develop many different skills.

This role is based at Central Library, Cambridge, however you must be able to travel to any of the other Libraries within the District.

**This is a permanent 7 hours per week post. The salary is pro rata to reflect this.**

Interviews will be held at Central Library, Cambridge on Monday 23rd January.

If you would like any further information about this vacancy, please call **0345 045 5225**.

What will you be doing?
- Providing friendly, efficient, customer-facing, front-line public services to users of Cambridgeshire Libraries.
- Contributing to and promoting the library offer.
- Supporting library events and activities.
- Supporting the wider aims and objectives of the service by assisting in delivery of partnership initiatives and outreach work.

Please refer to the attached job description for further details about the role.

Please note that this post requires the post holder to be mobile and able to work in any of the libraries identified within the hub and cluster.

About you

About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme



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