Librarian - Stafford, United Kingdom - Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

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Stafford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We're looking for a qualified librarian to join our team. We aim to support evidence based decision-making and lifelong learning, particularly by Trust staff. You will be one of four librarians. You'll supervise our Stafford library and provide a range of remote library services.

We're looking for someone who is confident working in and outside the library in a non-acute setting. You'll be equally at home carrying out literature searches, managing e-resources or promoting the library to Trust teams.

Alongside routine health librarian work such as training, you'll develop skills including:

producing literature searches and evidence summaries using health and care databases, grey literature and less structured information sources

- planning service developments, putting them into practice and evaluating them
- line management
- making sure the Stafford library site meets user needs and runs smoothly and safely
- developing impact case studies and carrying out evaluations
- using a range of channels and technologies to promote the library and engage with a diverse and geographically widespread workforce

The post will involve travel, mostly across Staffordshire and Shropshire.

You can usually work from home, but you will often need to cover our library site in Stafford as well as occasionally in Shrewsbury.

We can provide a full time workbase if necessary. This post is available from November 2023 (possibly earlier).

Support evidencebased practice and patient care and decisionmaking within the Trust and other organisations by delivering high quality, usercentred library and knowledge services to Trust staff, service users and carers and other library service users.
Ensure the ongoing provision of library services such as literature searching, training, current awareness, access to information sources and library facilities.
Make sure the Stafford library runs smoothly and meets user needs.
Provide line management and support to the library assistants who staff the Stafford library on a day to day basis.
Deliver agreed developments to continually improve the library services provided.

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

Supporting your career development and progression
Excellent NHS Pension scheme
Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Options for flexible working
Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
Salary sacrifice car fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
Free car parking at all trust sites
Free flu vaccinations every year
Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more.

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

The librarians work as a team, with different post-holders leading on and involved in different areas of work.

Across the librarian team, the duties include:

Work with the Library and Knowledge Services Manager to identify the best way of meeting healthcare professionals' information needs and implement agreed courses of action to respond to these. This could include a clinical librarian approach, working with a team or ward over an agreed period of time, possibly attending ward meetings; or could involve oneoff 'outreach' visits to teams and professional groups to raise awareness of library services
Deliver library services that are accessible to all library users regardless of workbase, profession or work pattern
Provide search skills, critical appraisal and other library and informationrelated group or 1 to 1 training to library users, including development of user education and support materials, using technology where appropriate.
Manage library stock regardless of format (including both print and electronic), cataloguing, classifying, developing and weeding the collection according to the needs of the library's users and the collection development policy
Manage the book ordering and acquisition process within agreed budget limits
Provide a comprehensive enquiry and literature searching service, retrieving information from qualityassured sources and collating and organising results in a userfriendly format, with assessment of quality of evidence where appropriate. This may take the form of an evidence summary, and involves the use o