Community Library Assistant - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire County Council

Cambridgeshire County Council

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

6 days ago

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About the role
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We are looking for an enthusiastic and versatile person to help us shape the future of Cambridgeshire Libraries. We maintain a high-quality public library service, working in partnership with a range of other organizations and community groups.

Our Community Library Assistants are the first point of contact for members of the public who are visiting and using our Libraries, and consequently the role is varied and allows staff to develop many different skills.

This role is based at Central Library, Cambridge, however you must be able to travel to any of the other Libraries within the District.

This is a permanent 7.75 hours per week post. The salary is pro rata to reflect this.

Interviews will be held at Central Library, Cambridge on Monday 25th March 2024.
What will you be doing?

Providing friendly, efficient, customerfacing, frontline public services to users of Cambridgeshire Libraries.
Contributing to and promoting the library offer.
Supporting library events and activities, including delivering rhymetime and storytime sessions
Supporting the wider aims and objectives of the service by assisting in delivery of partnership initiatives and outreach work.
Deliver the UK Visa and Immigration Biometrics verification service which we offer at Cambridge Central Library, for which training will be given.

Please refer to the attached job description for further details about the role.

Please note that library work can be physically demanding. This particular post involves evening and weekend working.

About you

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.

We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits: