The Library jobs in Sandwell

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn

We’re looking for a qualified librarian to join our team of five librarians and three library assistants. We work to support evidence based decision-making and lifelong learning, particularly by Trust staff.

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 evidence searches, delivering training or promoting the library to Trust teams.

Alongside routine health librarian work such as training, you’ll develop skills and experience including:

producing evidence searches and summaries using health and care databases, grey literature and less structured information sources

planning service developments, putting them into practice and evaluating them

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 sometimes need to cover our library sites in Stafford and Shrewsbury. We can provide a full time workbase if necessary.

Deliver library services that are accessible to all library users regardless of workbase, profession or work pattern

Work as part of a team to provide evidence searches and summaries, training, current awareness, access to information sources and library facilities.

Deliver agreed developments to continually improve the library services provided.

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

Work with the other librarians 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

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 pro rata (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

This vacancy is only open at this stage to internal employees of the following organisations within the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care System:

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, inclusive of Black Country Procurement Group and North Midlands and Cheshire Pathology Service.
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board.

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:

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 library’s users and the collection development policy

Manage the book ordering and acquisition process within agreed budget limits

Provide a comprehensive enquiry and evidence 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)

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

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-holder’s 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

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 and Deputy 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

Your job will not include everything above - some duties will be carried out by other team members. See attached job description for full details.