Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Band 5 Library Skills Trainer

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Job summary

This post will be responsible for undertaking literature searches and training to support trust-wide staff in pursuit of patient care, research and CPD. This will include ensuring that sessions are evaluated and accurately recorded and completing impact interviews on aspects of service provision. Outreach to teams both in person and virtually will be part of this with emphasis on building relationships with quality improvement, research and innovation and management colleagues.

You should be a confident and skilled communicator able to engage all types of staff and all levels and receive positive feedback.

You will also need to carry out general library duties as required including dealing with enquiries from library users, maintaining in the library inbox, and obtaining items from other services using established systems.

Main duties of the job

This post is key to delivering a literature search service using both the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub and specific native interfaces such as those produced by EBSCO, OVID and Proquest. Using the same resources you will train colleagues in searching for evidence to support patient care, research, service improvement and their own CPD. You will also provide support for assignments, critical appraisal and reflective writing.

You will be a knowledgeable and experienced searcher who is confident using a variety of NHS and other resources to produce accurate and timely information for colleagues, often meeting tight deadlines.

You will be a team player, supporting other library team members and making suggestions regarding service provision and improvement.

About us

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you

Date posted

31 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year Pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

820-6300159-COR

Job locations

Moseley Hall Hospital

Alcester Road

Birmingham

B13 8JL

Job description

Job responsibilities

Take responsibility for developing and delivering a range of courses in information searching to include at least the following elements:

Electronic Journals, E-books and the Library Catalogue Routine and advanced searching of clinical Databases such as Medline, Embase, CINAHL and PsyclNFO Evidence based medicine, NICE Evidence and the Cochrane Library

Use of general library services

Critical appraisal skills

To be responsible for the effective promotion and marketing of the training both within the libraries and Trust wide, using a variety of methods to ensure that all Trust staff have access to the information.

To work with other Library Trainers through the Regional Library Trainers' Forum to set out and implement training programmes and work on related projects.

To continually evaluate the training using a variety of methods and modify courses accordingly.

Work in close collaboration with the Trust's Education and Training department to ensure that training courses are integrated within the Trust's education and training programme.

To be responsible for the development and production of appropriate training materials in hard copy and online formats and other support material for the training cou ses such as trainers' notes, evaluation forms and accreditation certificates.

Teach staff effective literature searching and critical appraisal skills to improve the level of use of evidence based practice within the Trust.

Support the literature search service by regularly performing complex literature searches

Lead the library session in relevant Trust inductions such as the regular junior doctor and student nurse inductions.

Teach staff effective Internet/Intranet searching skills

Prepare questionnaires / feedback forms for evaluation purposes

To collate monthly training statistics and work closely with the Library Services Manager to prepare and deliver progress reports to the Trust on a regular basis.

To contribute to our current awareness service, using KnowledgeShare to categorise members according to their professional interests and ensure that they receive regular updates.

To take part in the promotion of library services at various Trust events by providing a display and manning a stand, talking to new potential users and promoting aspects of the service that are most relevant to them.

Keep up to date with national, regional and local developments in online resource development and new resources and ensure that courses are regularly updated to reflect these changes

Provide one-to-one training sessions to Trust staff on demand

Attend relevant internal meetings on behalf of the library service

Provide customised training sessions to suit the unique needs of individuals and groups.

Be familiar with library operations and procedures. for example use of the Library Management System and Inter-Library Loan system. This will be in sufficient detail to enable the job holder to cover serving users of the library in the absence of the Library Assistant and Librarian due to their absence on leave or at meetings.

Supervise, on adhoc basis, the Library Assistants in the absence of the Site Librarian

To undertakeother duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.