Librarian - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Would you like to support excellent evidence-based patient care? We are looking for an enthusiastic librarian to join our Library and Knowledge Service (LKS) Team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The postholder will be responsible for the promotion and marketing of the service to ensure effective use of the full suite of NHS resources, purchased locally and nationally.

This will involve using existing channels and developing new ones, including social media.

Although based in the libraries, the role will involve a significant amount of time in active outreach work and collaboration with other departments across the organisation, This will include promoting access to evidence and resources which support decision-making and evidence-based practice.

The postholder will also be involved in evidence searching, information skills training and current awareness provision.

This will be an agile role, enabling the postholder to work onsite and remotely to meet the needs of users.

A varied and exciting role, this post will also lead on the collation of evidence (statistics, feedback, case studies, and activity data) to demonstrate impact and to support the completion and submission of NHS England annual statistical returns and the Quality Improvement Outcomes Framework (QIOF).

This is an exciting opportunity for a creative, innovative person with excellent communication skills to provide a proactive outreach library service.

You will produce monthly targeted current awareness bulletins helping to keep staff up to date by disseminating the best evidence in a timely manner.

You will produce evidence for and contribute to NHS England Quality and Improvement Outcomes Framework ensuring that the services and resources meet user requirements including demonstrating impact on patient care via a range of techniques - questionnaires and surveys, hosting focus groups, interviews and case studies.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Provide professional assistance and support to the Library Service Manager in the delivery of the full range of Library services.

Responsibility for the day to day provision of service including supervision of Library Assistants.

Perform complex literature searches using high quality healthcare databases on behalf of library users.

Assist with the planning and delivery of information skills training to groups and individuals enabling them to effectively undertake literature searches and access electronic resources.

Evaluate the training.

Provide and promote a range of services including targeted current awareness and e-TOCs to keep staff up to date by disseminating the best evidence in a timely manner.

Provide a proactive outreach library service across LUHFT and its partners to include marketing and promoting the library service and e-resources, using a variety of means including at Trust inductions, the use of social media, the intranet and the library website.

Devise marketing materials and other marketing events and activities throughout the hospital sites.

Undertake evaluation of potential new resources or service developments in collaboration with the Library Service Manager.

Ensure that the collections reflect the user base by consulting with appropriate specialists and users in the selection of suitable resources in appropriate formats.

Evaluate, monitor and audit the usage and quality of the service's electronic resource provision to inform future subscription and promotion decisions.

Develop, monitor, analyse and report on key performance indicators and service standards to ensure the service is quality driven and meeting customer current and future demands.

This includes devising effective systems and methods to record statistics and qualitative data regarding the use of all e-resources.

Use a range of techniques e.g.

designing questionnaires and surveys, hosting focus groups and conducting interviews and case studies to collect data to not only demonstrate the impact of the Library and Knowledge Services upon patient care etc.

but to understand information use and highlight gaps in provision in o