Relief Mobile Library Driver

About the role
We have a vacancy for a relief zero hours driver on our Mobile Libraries, driving various routes across Cambridgeshire and delivering a mobile library service from the vehicle.

This role is a varied, sociable, community focused opportunity for an individual interested in community engagement and libraries.

What will you be doing?
The position involves driving predetermined routes in mostly rural villages across Cambridgeshire, including visits to schools, sheltered & residential accommodation and regular village/town locations.

You will be delivering a library service from the vehicle and responding to customer queries,

About you
- Competent and confident with driving large vehicles in both urban and rural settings. **A C1 entitlement to drive vehicles up to 7.5t is necessary to drive our Mobile Libraries.**
- Able to create a friendly and welcoming environment for a diverse range of customers
- Confident in using IT (training will be given on specific library systems)
- Excellent at multi-tasking, efficient, happy to work under pressure & confident with working alone on a Mobile Library.
- Passionate about what public libraries offer, and able to promote our services.

Please note library work can be physically demanding.

Staff may also occasionally be asked to cover other roles within Cambridgeshire libraries.

Some evening and weekend working may be required to attend promotional events, acting as a representative of the Library Service, The County Council and partner organisations.

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.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

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 in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage
- A comprehensive **wellbeing package** to cover **all aspects of wellbeing**, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to **4 weeks additional annual leave** (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays **flexibly** to better suit **your personal circumstances**:

- Make **Additional Voluntary Contributions** (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to **development opportunities**, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support **your personal and professional growth**:

- **Paid volunteering hours** each year so you can make a **positive impact on our community** during your normal working day
- Access to **Peer Support Groups** through our IDEAL staff **equality, diversity and inclusion** network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive **Employee Recognition Awards**:

- An **Our Cambs Rewards** account, giving you access to in-store and online **discounts** as well as our **Car Lease** and **Cycle to Work** schemes