Library Assistant

**About The Job**
Do you want to make a difference to people’s lives and help communities to grow?

Do you want to develop your customer service skills working as part of a dynamic team?

If so, working in a library could be just the role for you Join us as a Library Assistant

For more information about working in one of our West Sussex Libraries, watch this short video: li**brary recruitment animation video**

**Salary**: £21,575 to £21,968 per annum (£7,580 to £7,718, pro rata for part time) £11.18 to £11.39 hourly rate with entitlement to Saturday Enhancement working for X hours, X minutes 1 in 2 Saturdays

**Working Pattern**: Part time (13 hours per week)

**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Location**: East Preston Library, 3 The St, East Preston, Littlehampton BN16 1JJ

**Interview date**: TBC

**The Opportunity**
We’re looking for friendly, enthusiastic, and resourceful people, with excellent digital skills, to join our team as the key initial contact delivering a customer-facing library service, helping to deliver a high-quality enquiry service, providing information accurately, and signposting to other services.

If this this sounds like the type of challenge that you are looking for then you can be a part of our mission to promote the benefits of reading for learning, health and wellbeing through campaigns, events and activities.

You will be a keen team player, able to work alongside partners and volunteers providing excellent customer service to the whole range of visitors to the library.

Flexibility is key as one moment you may be helping a customer log-on to the library Wi-Fi and download an eBook, the next leading a Baby Rhyme Time session for parents and babies. The variety of our work means that no two days are the same. We get huge job satisfaction from helping everyone who comes through our doors, and you could too

**For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached**.

**Rewards and Benefits**
Why choose us as your next employer? We care about wellbeing, allowing time for celebrating our teams’ efforts, and developing our team to be the best they can be. Alongside this, we also offer the below benefits.
- An excellent **local government pension scheme**
- Generous holiday entitlement of 24 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- A range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- Maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- Volunteering opportunities
- Training and development opportunities, including coaching, mentoring and apprenticeships
- A range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our **Staff discounts page** if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders, Wellbeing Hub and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our **Rewards and Benefits page.**

**Further Information**
The reference number for this role is **CPP00759**.

To apply, upload your CV and Expression of Interest explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

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Job Reference: CPP00759