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    Children and Communities Librarian - Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom - Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
    Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    This post offers an exciting opportunity to join a successful and experienced NHS LKS team delivering high quality and much valued library services to staff and students across a specialist orthopaedic Trust.

    Our mission is to ensure all Trust staff and students have access to and can make use of the knowledge base to underpin patient care, service improvement, education, lifelong learning, research and innovation


    You will work across the Trust, engaging with staff to prove that proactive information services can save them time and help them do their jobs better, ensuring the delivery of world class patient care.

    You will also deliver training programmes in evidence-based information seeking.

    You'll be a good communicator, sharing responsibility for marketing and promotion at group inductions and Trust events, facilitating access to networked and web based services.

    Contributing to monitoring the effectiveness and quality of the library service is also a key element of this post.

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    To support evidence based practice, patient care and decision making across the Trust by delivering high quality, user-centred library and knowledge services to Trust staff and students.

    To carry out outreach and engagement work across the Trust to embed evidence services and resources as core to the organisation.

    Engaging with senior managers, service leads and clinicians and other Trust staff, attending meetings and events as required.
    To ensure the ongoing provision of library services at RJAH including the day to day management of electronic resources and the provision of front line library services

    To undertake literature searches and to deliver information skills training to support the delivery of world class patient care.

    The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic NHS Trust (RJAH) is one of the leading orthopaedic hospitals in the country, with some of the highest levels of staff and patient satisfaction, as well as a strong reputation for research and innovation.


    We have a range of fantastic staff benefits on offer to everyone who joins RJAH and you'll have access to outstanding professional development opportunities and state-of-the-art facilities - including our recently-opened 6 million Headley Court Veterans' Orthopaedic Centre (the first unit of its kind in the UK).RJAH has strong links with a range of universities including Staffordshire, Keele, Glyndwr, Chester and Birmingham.

    It offers outstanding opportunities for anyone who enjoys an outdoor lifestyle or is looking to raise a family.

    Work with the library team to identify the most effective ways to meet the information needs of Trust staff and students, and implement agreed actions to meet them.

    Work with the library team to provide a high quality, user-centred library service and foster good working relationships within the team and with library users.

    Deliver front line services for library users, including library inductions, answering enquiries and the delivery of any aspect of operational library work as required

    Deliver information skills training to groups and individuals enabling them to effectively undertake literature searches and access electronic resources.

    Develop and maintain relationships with clinical and non-clinical staff and help mobilise knowledge.

    Market and promote the library service to Trust staff and students by a variety of means including the use of social media, the intranet and the library website.

    These may include information summaries or syntheses if required, analysing findings and judging suitability of results, ensuring high quality information to support patient care, management decision making, service improvement and policy development.

    Ensure the delivery of library and knowledge services are accessible to all staff and students across the Trust regardless of work base, profession or work pattern.

    Responsible for the efficient running of the library management system, interlibrary loans system, library use database and link resolver as a major responsibility.

    Maintain and manage library stock within our agreed collection development policy, both print and electronic, processing, cataloguing, developing and maintaining the collection in response to the needs of all library users.

    Plan, allocate and supervise the day to day work of the library assistant.

    Maintain the library policies and procedures manual and propose changes when necessary work with the library team to ensure that changes are implemented.

    Actively participate in local and regional training or collaborative working with other health libraries and related organisations.

    Collaborate with Trust staff and partner organisations on project work and ongoing tasks, providing library or knowledge based expertise.

    Work with the Library & Knowledge Services team to design and deliver regular current awareness services, creating tailored updates in response to the needs and interests of Trust staff, including specific staff groups.

    Create and administer online OpenAthens accounts for library users, allowing users to access online resources both within and outside the Trust Network.

    Promote a culture of continuous service improvement by ensuring that appropriate audit, statistics collection and other formal and informal research activities regularly take place, including contributing to local and national evaluations of the impact of health library services.

    Support the Head of Knowledge and Learning in service adherence to national standards for NHS Knowledge and Library Services such as the Quality & Improvement Outcomes Framework

    Ensure efficient operation of the library IT facilities and equipment, ensuring proper usage and liaise with the Trust IT department, reporting and tracking faults.

    Responsible for handling and recording petty cash received for photocopying and other library services.
    Act in accordance with relevant legislation and information governance requirements e.g. data protection, copyright legislation.
    Assist the Senior Librarian and library team colleagues with other activities as necessary.

    First Degree or post graduate qualification in an information or library related discipline

    Experience of working in a Library or Information Service in a health care setting
    Knowledge of effective use of social media, web and other technologies in a professional information environment

    Knowledge of library management systems
    Knowledge of copyright and data protection legislation relating to libraries.
    Knowledge of online clinical databases and evidence based collections

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