Job summary
- Main area
- Library and Knowledge Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term for 12 months in the first instance/open to secondments)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7302592JN
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northumbria Health & Care Academy
- Town
- Cramlington
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Library & Knowledge Services Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
We are looking for a motivated and experienced person to lead Northumbria Healthcare Library & Knowledge Services.
The service has 5 physical libraries across a wide geographical area and provides resources and services to all staff and students on placement through these libraries, online and outreach.
Applicants must have excellent people skills and extensive library and staff management experience with high quality customer service and users at the heart of everything they do.
This role is a part-time job share with the current postholder who has recently partially retired.
Main duties of the job
To lead Northumbria’s Library & Knowledge Services (LKS) Team strategically and operationally, in the delivery of a wide portfolio of services and resources for all staff and students to underpin the delivery of evidence based care and support education and learning.
To continue to develop Northumbria’s access to high quality information recognising the role this has in the achievement of evidence based care and the Trust’s strategic priorities and objectives.
To lead the strategic development and operational management of evidence-based clinical guidelines and point of care information for staff and students at Northumbria.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The LKS Lead will act as the professional subject specialist in this area and as a senior manager in Northumbria, actively support the achievement of objectives within the wider education, health & well-being learning and leadership programmes which best reflect best practice and advance a learning culture.
Ensures the library service and clinical guidelines conform to legal requirements regarding copyright, data protection and other regulatory requirements.
Responsible for the implementation of new services and products which enhance the library and information provision within budget and staff resource; establishes priorities in service provision and to market and promote library services to all users.
Regularly reviews current library services in the light of organisational, service and technological developments.
To be responsible for the recruitment, management and continuous development of library staff and support the education and development of all staff and students through the provision of learning spaces and resources at the 5 main sites and online access for staff
across the organisation.
Keeps abreast of developments having an impact on library and information services at national, regional and local level and manages and implements changes to service engendered by national policy and local organisational reconfiguration .
Responsible for completion of the NHS KLS service improvement accreditation.
Responsible for the collection and timely submission of the annual NHS Library Services Statistics.
Committed to own professional continuous professional development and developing other people.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters level qualification in relevant subject area or equivalent experience in libraries and information services
- Professional qualification in library & information science or equivalent library & knowledge services experience.
- Chartered member/fellow of Chartered Institute of Library & Information professionals (CILIP)Librarian
Desirable criteria
- Management/leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Relevant vocational qualification – A1;V1/IQA
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven track record of leading a library and information service within a large multi-site organisation
- Highly developed specialist knowledge in libraries, information and knowledge management underpinned by theory and experience
- Knowledge of healthcare libraries, medical education, facilities management (in an educational context) and learning & development in the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Experience leading a library & information service in a multi-site organisation
Other
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving license and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jackie McGuire
- Job title
- Library & Knowledge Services Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Please note that I may not respond immediately as I have a period of leave in July.
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