Library and Knowledge Services Manager (LW)

NHS National Services Scotland; Kirkcaldy; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health service in Kirkcaldy seeks a Library and Knowledge Services Manager to lead its library team. You will manage staff, provide high-quality library services, and engage with health professionals. The ideal candidate has postgraduate qualifications in Library studies, strong leadership skills, and the ability to promote library services within the organization.

Benefits

Flexible working

Family-friendly policies

Support for disabled candidates

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualifications in Library studies.
• Work experience within a library and knowledge service environment.
• Excellent information search and retrieval skills.
• Experience of management and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the NHS Fife Library and Knowledge Service.
• Provide high quality, proactive library services.
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the library and staff.

Skills

Information search and retrieval

Management and leadership experience

Excellent communication skills

Networking and collaboration

Training ability

Education

Postgraduate qualifications in Library studies

Job description

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.

Responsibilities

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. Leading a library service that is well placed to face the challenges of a transformational health service and the demands of an evolving information and learning landscape. To provide and promote access to high quality information resources with the aim of supporting knowledge management, research, education and evidence-based care.

The Librarian will have responsibility for the day to day management of the library service and staff, performing a wide range of library duties including managing the physical library and electronic resources, working seamlessly across all services and ensuring strategic outcomes are achieved. There will also be occasional visits to our other library sites across Fife.

The Library manager will be responsible for the line management of the Band 5 Librarians and the Library Assistant. Other responsibilities will include 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.

Requirements and skills

You will have post graduate qualifications in Library studies, and work experience within a library and knowledge service environment. You will have excellent information search and retrieval skills and experience of management and leadership. You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to network and collaborate with colleagues and partner services across the NHS. You will be highly personable and able to deliver training / answer enquiries, adapting to the individual users needs. You will also promote the Library and Knowledge service within the organisation.

Contact and UK work eligibility

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

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.

As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.

For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

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 encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.