Weekend Assistant (Daventry Library)

West Northamptonshire Council; Daventry; On-site; GBP 2,400 - 3,000; Part time

Job summary

West Northamptonshire Council's Daventry Library is seeking a friendly, customer-focused team member to join our library team on a part-time basis (4 hours per week). You will help members join up as borrowers, handle cash, answer local history enquiries, and deliver welcoming experiences in community library spaces.

You will support volunteering opportunities, assist with queries such as Blue Badge/concessionary bus pass applications, mentor young volunteers, and promote engagement with local

Job description

About the role

This is an opportunity to join our Library team, where you will use your customer-facing skills to deliver a wide range of services, including the provision of activities and services for communities, children and their families, within library community spaces.

Dealing with a variety of enquiries and tasks to include joining new borrowers, cash handling and local history enquiries, you will ensure that each customer has a positive experience in the library.

This post is part time, 4 hours per week. The role will be based at Daventry Library.

What will you be doing?

You will assist customers with West Northamptonshire Council queries such as Blue Badge and concessionary bus pass applications, making this an ideal opportunity for an excellent communicator.

Supporting, mentoring and coaching, you will promote and enable a diverse range of volunteering opportunities in the library and wider community.

About you

Can you provide excellent customer service to all visitors to Northamptonshire Central LibraryPlus?

Are you motivated and enthusiastic with a proactive approach?

Are you creative and excited about delivering and supporting memorable activities for children and their families?

Are you passionate about serving your local community and seeking partners with local organisations to benefit library customers?

If so, you might be the person we are looking for.

Our benefits

You can also see our full list of employee benefits on our careers site here: Why you should work for us | West Northamptonshire Council.

About us

At West Northants Council, it's about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.

Our vision is 'to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive'. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential.

We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner.

The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.

Please note

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Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications, so we recommend applying as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

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