Senior Library Assistant, Home Library Service

Better; Dudley; On-site; GBP 9,800 - 12,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounted gym membership

Pension schemes

Career development

Ride to work scheme

Free eye tests

Exclusive discounts via GLL Extras

Job summary

GLL is recruiting a Home Library Service Officer for the Dudley Archives. This part-time role (14 hours per week) involves packing stock, daily van checks, and delivering books to housebound residents, care homes, and sheltered housing.

You will build relationships with customers and colleagues to ensure a high-quality, community-focused service. You will ideally come from a library background, but your enthusiasm for helping others and passion for reading are what make you stand out.

Qualifications

• Must hold a full UK driving licence with no endorsements.
• Experience or enthusiasm for helping others and strong customer care.
• Passion for reading and promoting books to the community.

Responsibilities

• Pack stock for delivery and conduct daily van checks.
• Make deliveries to customers and build relationships with them.
• Collaborate with other libraries to provide a high-quality service and community impact.
• Work largely alone yet contribute to the broader library service.

Skills

Driving license

Customer care

Reading enthusiasm

People skills

Education

Library background (desirable)

Job description

Home Library Service Officer: 14 hours per week

Based: Dudley Archives

Salary: £13.55 per hour

GLL is looking for a Home Library Service Officer based at Dudley Archives. The Home Library Service in Dudley offers a diverse range of adult and children's books as well as providing stock and information to housebound residents, care homes and sheltered housing schemes. The home delivery service really is a lifeline.

As a Home Library Service Officer, you’ll be involved in everything from packing up of stock, daily van checks and making deliveries to customers. You’ll build good relationships with our customers and your colleagues in other libraries to provide a high-quality service and ensure the Home Library service is an integral part of the community. For long periods of the day, you’ll be working alone, but you can make a real impact on customer’s lives as you may be one of the few people they see in person, on a regular basis.

You’ll ideally come from a library background, but it’ll be your enthusiasm for helping others and devotion to customer care that makes you really stand out. You’ll have a passion for reading and promoting books, along with excellent people skills. It is essential that you hold a full UK driving license with no endorsements. This role can be immensely rewarding. You can make a real difference to people’s lives by helping those who are unable to access the library service themselves.

As a charitable social enterprise owned by its staff GLL hasa great rangeof benefits for its employees:

• A salary of £13.55 per hour

• Avaluesdriven organisation

• Learning & development to support career development

• Good pension schemes

• Discounted gym membership for you and your partner

• The opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say on how we are run plus associated eventsExclusive discounts on our villas in Portugal

• Exclusive discounts on our Ski chalets in Bulgaria

• Career Pathways, professional development is just the start. To ensure your stay on top of your game we provide training with practical and theory elements too

• Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)

• 25% off Red Letter Days

• 25% off Buy a Gift

• 20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products

• Ride to work scheme

• Free eye tests and discounted glasses

About GLL:

As the UK's largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues,librariesand children’s centres.

Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.

One of our core values is 'More than a Job',because working with usopens upa wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting par how you work with us.To make surewe'rehaving a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after A contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.

We offer twodifferent typesof work arrangements:

• A permanent employment contract - part time and full time

• A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool

If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you canwork and a flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.

Sowhether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children,you’llbe able to find your ideal new job at GLL.

Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in PeopleGoldAward employer.

However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.

We are an inclusive employer. Weseekand welcome diversity in our teams.

All pay rates are subject to skills, experience,qualificationsand location