Librarian - Frimley, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Frimley, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic individual with strong IT skills to join the Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Library & Knowledge Services team on the Frimley Park site and help us deliver high-quality support to NHS staff and students.

The post holder will assist in the delivery of a full range of library services, including information skills training and evidence searching, with particular responsibility for the operational running of the service and working on TEL initiatives.

There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement.

We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site.

The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients.

Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.

1 Role of the Service

It is core to Knowledge for Healthcare, and thus to Framework 15, that the NHS becomes a knowledge based service and that all NHS health care staff have access to and use appropriate knowledge to support their practice, their learning and development and their research.

To this end NHS libraries provide services for:

Clinical decision making by patients, their carers as appropriate and health professionals
Commissioning decision and health policy making
Research
Lifelong learning by health professionals
Accessing the international knowledge base of health and social care
Training the workforce to acquire and develop relevant information literacy and knowledge management skills
Learning and study
Using and understanding knowledge and learning resources, whether physical or electronic

2 Dimensions

The Library and Knowledge Services (LKS) department provides access to evidence for staff across the stakeholder health economies including their host, other Trusts and Frimley Health ICS.

The department provides library and knowledge services to healthcare students based in universities used by the local health economy.

There are libraries and resource collections at Frimley Park Hospital and Wexham Park Hospital

Services provided include:

Training to find and understand evidence, from basic skills to advanced research and critical appraisal
Career development for junior doctors
Answering complex and simple enquiries
Elearning, learning and development facilities
Professional guidance in areas of expertise
A range of print and electronic resources
ICT networks and facilities, including websites and pages on each of the stakeholder intranets
Document supply and interlibrary loans
Study space for groups and individuals

There are about 3000 active library users.

PURPOSE OF JOB:

3.1 To assist in the delivery of a full range of library services, with particular responsibility for the operational running of the service and community users

3.2 To provide assistance and support to the Library Services Manager and Clinical Librarian and to act as line manager for the Band 3 Library Assistants and Band 4 Senior Library Assistant

3.3 To provide information skills training and support to Trust clinical staff, trainees and departments in the use of evidence-based resources, and to undertake evidence searches upon request on a range of online databases and resources based on an analysis of user needs

3.4 To manage ejournals and electronic links to online resources, ensuring EBSCO's Holdings Manager (Link Resolver) entries are up-to-date

3.5 To develop and maintain current awareness services for Trust staff and other staff eligible for library services

KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

4.1 Assist in the delivery of a full range of library services

4.1.2 Take responsibility for the library service's community users, and other users eligible under Service Level Agreements, including attending