Library Customer Service Advisor - London, United Kingdom - tower Hamlets

tower Hamlets

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Library Customer Service Advisor:

Tower Hamlets Idea Stores is now recruiting for Customer Service Advisors. We have three full time positions available and one 17.5 hours job share position.

Role Purpose

The Idea Store aims to make a difference by providing a welcoming, learning environment and the materials to stimulate enquiring minds and a love of reading.

Idea Store is a modern concept of the traditional Libraries that provides more than a lending service, it offers a large collection of reading materials and computers for its users, it also offers a wide range of events and activities for all ages, such as Story Time Groups, Reading Groups, Homework Clubs, Conversation Clubs, Prime Time Clubs and more.

It also provides a variety of adult learning courses and assists residents to access other Council Services. Also, anything and everything to do with reading for pleasure.

Key Responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for covering service points, floor walking and assisting customers with their enquires, providing digital assistance, stock/store presentation, providing advice and guidance to learners, signposting customers, and joining new members.

You will also be planning, delivering, and evaluating events and activities to a very diverse range of audiences, providing a consistently excellent level of customer service.

You will have the opportunity to champion areas of work in turn with other colleagues and will work with internal and external partners to deliver the Idea Store and Councils priorities.

Furthermore, you will be responsible for the opening and closing of sites and assist the Area Service Manager and Customer Service Team Leader in decision-making.

Requirements:

The post holder will need to be proactive and have a positive approach to teamwork.

The workload is fast-paced and varied, so the post holder must be able to multi-task and prioritise effectively and be willing to develop themselves by undertaking new learning.

You will be assisting in the training and development of new recruits.

You will be required to work 35 hours a week over 5 day working week, your shift will require you to work one evening a week up to 9 pm and some Saturdays and Sundays on a rotational basis.

Benefits and Allowances
We offer an excellent benefits package to all of our employees, including:

The role benefits from access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
Salary enhancement Saturday and Sunday working.
Employee Assistance and support, offering a variety of employee wellbeing services to support a healthy work/life balance and lifestyle.
My Staff Shop offers discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits, and so forth.
A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work, childcare vouchers, additional annual leave, computers, mobile phones, and health screening.

Application Details
This post is open to the following types of applicants: Redeployees/ Internal/ External.

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomesbased council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough.

We want people who aspire to our TOWER values:
Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect._

Tower Hamlets has a zerotolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class._
We welcome applicants that live in the borough._

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