Job overview

Healthcare Librarian - 27 hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Knowledge and Library Services team at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust as an Assistant Librarian. This post is a fixed term, 1 year maternity leave cover. You will be a qualified librarian, with excellent communication and customer care skills who is experienced in using online information databases, Microsoft Office applications and social media.

This post offers the opportunity for an experienced librarian to develop existing, and gain new, skills including taking advantage of the excellent links and collaborative opportunities offered. You will be a compassionate, accountable individual who treats all colleagues, patients and service users with respect and seeks to deliver excellence in their role. You will share the Trust values and be committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. The role will support the library to develop services to meet the need of all staff groups, reaching beyond the traditional library users of doctors and nursing staff.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will: 

•    Evidence searching and synthesis.
•    Critical appraisal of health literature.
•    Design and delivery of user education training sessions.
•    Management of e-resources in the library environment.
•    Utilisation of Content-Management Systems to deliver effective Intranet/Internet pages.
•    Marketing and Promotion of Library Services.
•    Cataloguing of documents and electronic resources.
•    Document delivery and retrieval from a variety of sources.
•    Delivery of Current Awareness Services.
•    Analysis of service data such as usage statistics.
•    Attend and share learning experience from Library Network, National Network CPD opportunities.
•    Work in partnership with other health libraries across the CLIKS group in Cheshire and the LIHNN Networks
•    Attend Trust wide forums as appropriate, to share updates relating to KLS.

Working for our organisation

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice