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Clinical Outreach Librarian - job post

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
Kingston upon Thames
£36,943 - £44,900 a year - Full-time
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Job details

Pay

  • £36,943 - £44,900 a year

Job type

  • Full-time

Shift and schedule

  • Monday to Friday

Location

Kingston upon Thames

Full job description

Band 5

Main area
Library and knowledge services
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref
396-8275752-DE-DK
Site
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Town
Kingston Upon Thames
Salary
£36,943 - £44,900 p.a. pro rata. Including HCAS Outer
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/09/2026 23:59

Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

  • Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
  • Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
  • Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
  • Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.

Job overview

This is an exciting post for a qualified, outgoing, and creative librarian / information specialist. As part of a small team the post holder with assist the Library and Knowledge Services Manager in the provision of services to support Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust staff and students in using evidence-based practice in decision-making. Through developing, promoting and delivering proactive and innovative library and knowledge services, readily accessed at the point of need, this will enhance the quality of patient care and management decision making.

Main duties of the job

  • To be proactive and flexible in finding opportunities to promote the library services and alert users to the relevant services and resources by all possible means
  • To be responsible for developing innovative strategies for engaging staff in their workplaces, promoting the relevance of evidence in planning and decision making in clinical, management and service redesign scenarios
  • To promote national, regional and local library and knowledge services and resources, to Trust staff by a variety of means, identifying the need for, and delivering, further training and support for those resources as needed.
  • To create, procure and use a variety of promotional material in various formats and in various settings.
  • To develop and maintain Stenhouse Library’s presence on social media platforms and work with other members of the Library Team to utilise and develop emerging and available technology to support the delivery and promotion of all Library Services.
  • Publicise and promote the Clinical librarian service using a targeted marketing strategy for the Clinical librarian service that could include producing and delivering presentations to local conferences and study days to specific individual teams and particular professional group.

For full details of the role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specifications.

Working for our organisation

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust cares for more than half a million patients a year, from across Kingston, Richmond, Elmbridge (Surrey), Merton, Wandsworth and Sutton. In 2018, we became the first acute hospital trust in London to be rated “Outstanding” for overall quality and leadership by the national Care Quality Commission regulator.

We have approximately 350 beds and directly employ around 2,900 staff. Our trust provides a full range of diagnostic services and treatment services. Our main site is the Kingston Hospital site but we also run a number of outpatient clinics in the community, including in Raynes Park, Surbiton, Queen Mary's Roehampton and Teddington.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for more information about the role.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree level
  • Professional qualification in librarianship, information studies or information science related disciplines.
Desirable criteria
  • CILIP - working towards chartership
  • ECDL or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Practical experience of working in a library or information service
  • Experience of undertaking literature searches using online databases and Internet resources
  • Ability to actively demonstrate a high level of understanding about web 2.0 technologies and how they can be used in library services
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in a healthcare or academic library
  • Experience of marketing and promoting a service and its resources within an organisation
  • Experience of training staff -1:1 or groups in a variety of formats including online

Skills / Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Excellent written/oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders and service users
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Ability to work on own initiative and collaboratively as part of a team
  • Effective time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines
  • Excellent IT literacy using IT application systems, database and the internet
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Excellent organisational, interpersonal and customer care skills
Desirable criteria
  • Ability and experience of creating guides and course materials

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Familiarity with library management systems
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of marketing principles
  • Understanding of relevant legislation e.g. Copyright, Data protection, Freedom of Information
  • An understanding of the NHS and the information needs of its staff
  • Knowledge of the principles of evidence-based practice in health care & healthcare bibliographic databases

We support the NHS Flex for the Future pledge

We welcome conversations about flexible working from day one, including options such as adjusted hours, compressed hours and other arrangements. If flexibility matters to you, please talk to us - we’ll be happy to explore what’s possible for the role and the service.

Your recruitment team
The NHS South West London Recruitment Hub is your dedicated recruitment team, here to support you at every stage of the process. If you have a query, please contact us:
E: krft.askrecruitment@nhs.net

Your application
Please ensure your supporting statement clearly reflects the job description and person specification, as shortlisting will be based on these criteria.

Please refer to the latest UKVI guidance and ensure you have the appropriate right to work before applying for this role.

Use of Artificial Intelligence
We kindly ask that you avoid using AI tools to draft your application. We value authentic, individual responses that reflect your own experience and communication style.

References
Please provide a minimum of 3 years’ employment and/or education history, including professional email addresses (not personal accounts such as Hotmail or Gmail). If you cannot provide these, please inform the interview panel to avoid delays in pre-employment checks.

Closing date
To help us manage recruitment efficiently, some vacancies may close early once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting
If you are successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted by email or SMS from the South West London Recruitment Hub. Please check your registered TRAC email regularly.

Application feedback
If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Safeguarding and DBS Checks
We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. For roles with direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All staff are expected to understand and uphold their safeguarding responsibilities as part of their role.

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Helen Connor
Job title
Library and Knowledge Services Manager
Email address
helen.connor4@nhs.net
Telephone number
020 8934 2234

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