Assistant Librarian - Sheffield, United Kingdom - Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
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Sheffield, United Kingdom

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Illingworth Library teamat Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust as an Assistant Librarian.

You will be a key member of the Illingworth Library team, providing Library & Knowledge services to the Trust.

The Illingworth Library team are a fantastic team, who are valued for their knowledge, above and beyond approach, patience and resourcefulness.


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.


Interview Date: 17 April 2023

You will support the Knowledge & Library Service Manager in the delivery of services by:

  • Managing the operational running of the library service, including overall management of day-to-day library enquiry, Inter library loans, cataloguing, withdrawals and circulation processes.
  • Ensuring that people have access to the electronic library resources, when & where needed upon which to base clinical and management decisions.
  • Promoting the use of library resources throughout the Trust.
  • Delivering virtual and facetoface training to ensure people make effective use of electronic resources in order to support evidencebased practice.
  • Performing complex literature searches using high quality healthcare databases on behalf of library users to assist evidencebased practice.
  • Delivering outreach services to promote evidencebased practice, underpin clinical activities, governance and service redesign by attending Trust meetings and groups.
  • Working with the Knowledge & Library Service Manager to continually improve delivery of the Library Service to all Trust people and students.


Sheffield Children's is one of three independent, specialist paediatric hospitals in the country, providing dedicated healthcare for children and young people across community, mental health and acute specialist settings.


We have three overarching aims that set the direction for the Trust in our vision "to create a healthier future for children and young people.

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  • Outstanding patient care
  • Brilliant place to work
  • Leader in children's health


Our commitment to rewarding colleagues is demonstrated through our brilliant reward and benefits offer including; generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme and access to salary sacrifice schemes such as cycle to work and lease cars.

We are committed to supporting colleagues from different heritages and lifestyles while at work.

This is supported through the offer we have in place for flexible working and the three equality network groups we have in place.

Colleagues are encouraged to join these groups and request flexible working.

Main responsibilies fall under the following headings. For more information on the main responsibilities for this post, please refer to the job description and person specification.

  • Communication, Customer Service and Teamwork
  • Service Development
  • Planning & Organisation
  • Managing-People and Resources
For an informal chat about this role, please contact Sarah Massey

Interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing 17 April 2023

Inclusive Recruitment & Selection

Trust Values

The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:

  • Compassion
  • leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
  • Accountability striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
  • Respect value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
Excellence - delivering a high-quality standard of care
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