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Library Assistant

1 month ago

York, United Kingdom PeoplePlus Full time
The Role

We are looking for an enthusiastic Library Assistant to join the team at HMP Millsike, a brand-new prison estate near York, to support the delivery of high-quality library services within the establishment. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in promoting literacy, learning, and cultural engagement, ensuring that library resources effectively support prisoners’ development and rehabilitation.

In this role, you’ll work closely with prisoners, prison staff, and external partners to make a positive impact on the prison community. From providing friendly customer service to supporting engaging library events, you’ll be at the heart of a service that aims to inspire learning and promote personal growth.

The role includes evening and weekend shifts to ensure library services are available to prisoners at various times.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide a welcoming and supportive environment for all library visitors, delivering high standards of customer service and assisting with information access.
Support the librarys daily operations, including book circulation, record-keeping, and maintaining resources.
Assist in organising and running engaging library activities and cultural events, such as reading programmes and author visits.
Ensure safety and security within the library environment, adhering to health and safety protocols and prison regulations.
This role offers a unique opportunity to make a positive impact on the lives of prisoners by promoting literacy and learning. If you are passionate about library services and have the skills and experience required, we encourage you to apply. Join us in creating an environment where knowledge and growth thrive

Who We Are

Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people’s lives – every single day.

As part of The Staffline Group, we use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year.

Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, independent living, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.

To put it simply, we:

Support people to find and keep jobs
Help people to set up their own businesses
Deliver skills training to further people’s careers
Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce
Rehabilitate people with convictions
Tackle the root causes of offending
Help people to live independently
Support carers
We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus, the right principles are in place but more than that, it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that there’s real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.