Senior Library Services Assistant

2 weeks ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham City Council Full time £28,598 - £34,334 per year

Senior Library Assistant
Permanent
Grade B - £28,598 - £34,434
Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review
Working 18.25 hours per week
An opportunity has arisen to recruit to a permanent part-time position at 18.25 hours per week within Reader Services at the Library of Birmingham. We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague with excellent customer skills to join the team working in a busy frontline library service.

Reader Services offer a range of facilities and materials that support formal and informal learning in addition to reading for leisure and pleasure. The service encompasses adult fiction and non-fiction on the busy lending terraces together with subject information collections, public computers and study spaces on levels 2 and 3 of the Library of Birmingham.

The Team Also Has a City-wide Role In

  • Managing electronic resources such as e-audio books, downloaded e-books, e-magazines, online newspapers and e-comics/graphic novels.
  • Supporting in-person Reading Groups.
  • Stock selection of resources languages other than English
  • Bibliographic functions and procurement

The Position Is Graded At GR3 Senior Library Assistant. You Would Be Supporting The Service Manager And Providing Supervision For The Frontline Service To Deliver a Wide Range Of Library Services To The Public Including

  • Enquiry & information service.
  • Circulation functions and reservation fulfilment.
  • Legacy (stack) collection requests
  • Computing & printing/copying/scanning services
  • Study spaces including bookable rooms

In Addition You Will Be Involved With

  • Stock curation, selection, maintenance and weeding (discarding)
  • Creating promotional material and organising events
  • Cash management and till consolidation
  • Advance scheduling and arranging the day-to-day tasks & duties of the team

The role's working patterns includes alternate Saturdays and one evening per week up until 19:15.

For any informal enquires please contact:

Please upload an up-to-date CV and Personal Statement via the attachments part of your application. The Personal Statement should outline how you meet the essential criteria for the role through your personal qualities, skills and experience and include your motivation for applying to the post. Note the Personal Statement should be no more than 1500 words. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV and Personal Statement attached
Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

We are dedicated to supporting internal mobility and the development of our people. As such, applications from internal employees and those under S118 will be given priority and reviewed before external applications are considered.

We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

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