Band 4/5 Librarian (Development Post)
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Job summary
Would you like to support excellent evidence-based patient care? We are looking for an enthusiastic Librarian to join our Library and Knowledge Service (LKS) Team at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
You will either be a qualified professional or be willing to work towards a funded MA in Librarianship or Information Science. An ideal post for a paraprofessional looking to qualify as a professional. If you are already a qualified librarian, you will start as a Band 5. If you have not gained a library qualification, you will start as a Band 4, but you would be funded to complete a MA/BA or High level apprenticeship and then gain pay Band 5 on completion.
Solihull Hospital provides a range of outpatient, inpatient and emergency services to its local community. Solihull Hospital Library is located within the Education Centre.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to adopt excellent public relations and marketing skills, to promote UHB Library and Knowledge Service. You will also be confident in literature searching, as well as, delivering information skills training and current awareness services. You will possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills in addition to extensive online and digital skills. Other duties will include answering enquiries, counter duties, cataloguing and classifying and ordering stock. Previous library experience is therefore essential.
The new post-holder will have the opportunity to network with other local library colleagues within the Trust as well as the 20 libraries within the BASE patch [covering Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country]. They will also be collaboration with the new Midlands wide HeLM consortium.
Support will also be provided to enable progression with CILIP Chartership.
Please contact Laura Walsh, Outreach Librarian and Solihull Library Site Manager on 0121 424 4194 for further information or an informal chat.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
- Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
- Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. We do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://birminghamandsolihullcovidvaccine.nhs.uk where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination.
Details
Date posted
11 July 2022
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£22,549 to £31,534 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
304-46559LP
Job locations
Solihull Hospital
Lode Ln
Solihull
West Midlands
B91 2JL
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Solihull Hospital
Lode Ln
Solihull
West Midlands
B91 2JL
Employer's website
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