Liaison Librarian

Tees; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement: 25 days

Bank holidays

Employee development & wellbeing

Staff discounts

Job summary

Teesside University is seeking a Liaison Librarian to join our Student and Library Services team. This full-time, permanent role focuses on supporting students, developing digital and library literacies, and creating learning materials to enhance the student experience on campus.

The role requires flexibility, with one evening per week until 7pm and one morning from 8am as part of weekly hours. Interviews will be held on campus in December, and all staff are part of Team Teesside.

Qualifications

• Excellent customer care skills.
• Experience in a higher education setting is desirable.
• Flexibility and adaptability in a lively, responsive environment.

Responsibilities

• Help students develop critical digital and library literacies.
• Create effective learning materials to support student learning.

Skills

Customer service

Digital literacy

Learning materials

Job description

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The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Student and Library Services are pleased to offer a superb opportunity to join our student facing Learning, Teaching and Research team in this Liaison Librarian role. This role is a full time and permanent opportunity for someone with excellent customer care skills and experience and who wants to make a difference in a higher education setting.

We are looking for someone who is flexible and can easily adapt within an environment that is lively and responsive to evolving student needs, someone who is keen to explore and harness digital opportunities available that will help to improve our student experience and someone who is passionate about the support we offer to our University community.

This role involves supporting students to develop critical digital and library literacies and creating effective learning materials to facilitate this.

This role involves working one evening per week until 7pm and one morning from 8am as part of your weekly hours.

Please note that the University may ask you to participate in a number of selection activities as part of the recruitment process for this vacancy.

If you are shortlisted, your interview will take place in person, on campus.

Interviews will take place on 8 December 2026.

Every member of our university is part of the inspiring, supportive, and caring community known as Team Teesside.

What we offer you:

• A holiday entitlement of 185 hours (25 days), increasing to 28 and 30 days after 3- and 5-years' service respectively, plus bank holidays. Entitlement is pro rata for part-time/fractional posts.
• Additional leave over the Christmas and New Year period during the Christmas closure
• Special leave to support a range of circumstances.
• A variety of provision to support staff with personal development and recognition.
• A range of family friendly benefits
• An employee benefits platform which provides discounts with 350+ retailers and access to health and wellbeing resources

Please be advised that due to the minimum salary thresholds imposed by the UKVI, this post will not qualify for university sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route.