Library and Knowledge Services Manager (LW)

NHS Ayrshire & Arran; Región Metropolitana de Santiago; Híbrido; CLP 20.000.000 - 40.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A public health service in the UK is seeking a Library and Knowledge Services Manager to lead the library team. This role involves managing staff, promoting high-quality information resources, and supporting learning needs for NHS staff. The ideal candidate will have postgraduate qualifications in Library studies and significant experience in a library environment.

Servicios

Flexible working

Family-friendly policies

Support for disabled candidates

Formación

• Experience within a library and knowledge service environment.
• Ability to network and collaborate with colleagues and partner services.
• Personable with the ability to adapt to individual users' needs.

Responsabilidades

• Manage day-to-day library service and staff.
• Strategic planning within the RIK team.
• Deliver staff training and promote library services.

Conocimientos

Information search and retrieval

Management and leadership

Excellent communication

Training delivery

Educación

Postgraduate qualifications in Library studies

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Hybrid working will apply for the foreseeable future. We are seeking to appoint an individual to lead our library team. The Library and Knowledge Services (L&KS) Manager and Librarian will be a core member of the wider Research, Innovation & Knowledge (RIK) Team with a specific remit of leading and managing the NHS Fife Library and Knowledge Service. The L&KS Manager and Librarian will provide a high quality, proactive library and knowledge service to support the learning needs of all NHS Fife University Health Board staff, health and social care staff and students on placement, helping the service face the challenges of a transformational health service and the evolving information and learning landscape. The aim is to provide and promote access to high quality information resources to support knowledge management, research, education and evidence-based care.

Responsibilities

• The Librarian will manage the day-to-day library service and staff, including managing the physical library and electronic resources, and working across services to ensure strategic outcomes are achieved.
• Occasional visits to other library sites across Fife.
• The Library Manager will have line management responsibility for Band 5 Librarians and the Library Assistant.
• Involvement in strategic planning within the RIK team and participation in the RIK leadership team within the department.
• Library and Knowledge Service planning, report writing, service promotion, literature searching, and delivering staff training.

Qualifications and Skills

• Postgraduate qualifications in Library studies.
• Experience within a library and knowledge service environment.
• Excellent information search and retrieval skills and experience of management and leadership.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to network and collaborate with colleagues and partner services across the NHS.
• Personable with the ability to deliver training and answer enquiries, adapting to individual users\' needs, and promote the Library and Knowledge Service within the organisation.

Other Information

For informal enquiries, please contact Karen Gray on 01383 623623 ext. 20947 or e-mail [e-mail].

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It is ESSENTIAL that you confirm you have the right to work in the UK or that sponsorship would be possible before submitting your application.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

NHS Scotland is committed to equality and diversity and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for a workforce that is representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.