We're looking for a qualified librarian to join our team. We aim to support evidence based decision-making and lifelong learning, particularly by Trust staff. You will be one of four librarians. You'll supervise our Stafford library and provide a range of remote library services.

We're looking for someone who is confident working in and outside the library in a non-acute setting. You'll be equally at home carrying out literature searches, managing e-resources or promoting the library to Trust teams.

Alongside routine health librarian work such as training, you'll develop skills including:

• producing literature searches and evidence summaries using health and care databases, grey literature and less structured information sources
• planning service developments, putting them into practice and evaluating them
• line management
• making sure the Stafford library site meets user needs and runs smoothly and safely
• developing impact case studies and carrying out evaluations
• using a range of channels and technologies to promote the library and engage with a diverse and geographically widespread workforce

The post will involve travel, mostly across Staffordshire and Shropshire. You can usually work from home, but you will often need to cover our library site in Stafford as well as occasionally in Shrewsbury. We can provide a full time workbase if necessary.

Main duties of the job

• Support evidence-based practice and patient care and decision-making within the Trust and other organisations by delivering high quality, user-centred library and knowledge services to Trust staff, service users and carers and other library service users.
• Ensure the ongoing provision of library services such as literature searching, training, current awareness, access to information sources and library facilities.
• Make sure the Stafford library runs smoothly and meets user needs.
• Provide line management and support to the library assistants who staff the Stafford library on a day to day basis.
• Deliver agreed developments to continually improve the library services provided.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to �2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to �250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Job description

Job responsibilities

The librarians work as a team, with different post-holders leading on and involved in different areas of work. Across the librarian team, the duties include:

• Work with the Library and Knowledge Services Manager to identify the best way of meeting healthcare professionals information needs and implement agreed courses of action to respond to these. This could include a clinical librarian approach, working with a team or ward over an agreed period of time, possibly attending ward meetings or could involve one-off outreach visits to teams and professional groups to raise awareness of library services
• Deliver library services that are accessible to all library users regardless of workbase, profession or work pattern
• Provide search skills, critical appraisal and other library and information-related group or 1 to 1 training to library users, including development of user education and support materials, using technology where appropriate.
• Manage library stock regardless of format (including both print and electronic), cataloguing, classifying, developing and weeding the collection according to the needs of the librarys users and the collection development policy
• Manage the book ordering and acquisition process within agreed budget limits
• Provide a comprehensive enquiry and literature searching service, retrieving information from quality-assured sources and collating and organising results in a user-friendly format, with assessment of quality of evidence where appropriate. This may take the form of an evidence summary, and involves the use of both clinical and non-clinical information sources.
• Proactively market and promote availability and use of library services to current and potential library users using a range of communication channels (including written, face-to-face, displays, online and social media)
• Deliver library services to Trust service users and carers in line with Trust policy and work with other areas within the Trust to support initiatives such as Reading for Wellbeing and health literacy
• Provide evidence-related services to support research within the Trust
• Contribute to the management of organisational knowledge through the use of knowledge management techniques and work closely with clinical and corporate areas to support or facilitate local knowledge management.
• Suggest suitable developments for inclusion in the annual library Delivery Plan and deliver any actions assigned within agreed timescales
• Manage local library facilities, including providing a secure and safe working environment for library staff and users according to Trust policies, local standards and legal requirements
• Lead on agreed areas of service delivery across the library services
• Deliver inductions, informal talks and presentations to raise awareness of the library services and knowledge resources available to staff
• Work with other librarians to deliver regular current awareness services according to the needs and interests of Trust staff
• Handle money received by the local library from charges and sales according to Trust procedures
• Help the Library and Knowledge Services Manager collect data and evidence and other activities to show that the library service meets internal and external standards and quality assessments
• Provide general library cover (including counter duties) at any library site in the absence of other staff as required
• Carry out other duties consistent with the post-holders skills and the needs of the library service as required
• Support any Trust projects that fall within the Library and Knowledge Services remit

Systems and equipment

• Use a wide range of library systems and equipment, including computers and mobile devices, local and national library and information retrieval systems and Trust and NHS automated systems
• Liaise with local departments and external suppliers to ensure that library equipment and systems are maintained as required, investigating and troubleshooting problems that arise and proactively seeking solutions

Decisions and judgements

• Manage library assistants based at same site, including carrying out staff appraisals, supervision and day to day management and communication and encouraging their professional development
• Supervise library staff across the service in areas of work that the post-holder leads on
• Deputise for Library and Knowledge Services Manager as required
• Act in accordance with relevant legislation and information governance requirements, advising Trust staff when required
• Take responsibility for own continuing personal development
• Work is managed rather than supervised, and works on own initiative, taking advice from manager if required

Communication and relationships

• Liaise with Library and Knowledge Services Manager on service development issues and implementation
• Collaborate with other library team members to provide a high quality, user-centred library service and foster good working relationships within the team and with library users
• Provide library resources and information (but not advice) to service users and carers in line with Trust policy
• Actively take part in local and regional training or collaborative working with other health libraries or related organisations

Physical demands of the job

• Standard keyboarding skills and use of office equipment, e.g. photocopier, laminator, binding machine
• Occasional physical effort, for example lifting and shelving books and journals, carrying equipment for training or displays, using kick-stools. Books and journals are shelved at a range of heights from just above floor level to above shoulder height. Occasional library work or reorganisation may involve more extended amounts of moving of library contents than occurs on a regular basis
• Frequent need to concentrate, with occasional interruptions

See attached job description for full details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent qualification/experience in an information or library related discipline (or degree level qualification pending)

Experience

Essential

• Experience of providing a literature searching and enquiry service to library users
• Experience of delivering library and search skills training

Skills

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentations
• Understanding of how an NHS library can support research, evidence based practice and knowledge management activities

Employer details

Employer name

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's Hospital

Corporation Street

Stafford

ST16 3SR

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