Library Assistant

We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible. Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3^rd party recruitment providers - North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust ___________________________________________________________________________________ The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults. We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible. As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant. The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system., Our Band 4 library assistant posts provide a front-line flexible, friendly and knowledgeable enquiries and circulation service to our diverse student, trainee and staff population. We are looking to recruit to two posts providing cover for our enquiries/circulation desk during our day and evening opening hours Monday to Friday. The daytime post is full-time from 09:00 to 17:00 (with a break) and the part-time post is 25 hours covering 14:00 to 19:00. There will be a requirement to work one paid Saturday per month during term-time for four hours to support our Saturday courses. As well as responsibility for day-to-day work at the enquiry/circulation desk, tasks also include assisting with the online reading lists system (KeyLinks), book and journal processing and some basic cataloguing. There will also be a focus on assisting with library projects with an immediate priority being a large project to make reading list materials fully accessible for our users., + deliver a welcoming, efficient and sensitive front-line service in the library during our opening hours, acting as first point of contact to all visitors. + instruct and assist Library patrons in the basic use of the Library's physical and online resources and assisting with maintenance and troubleshooting of equipment + use and query a variety of computer systems such as the Library management system, online reading list system and student course systems + ensure security and safety of the Library and Library patrons including opening or closing the Library + provide general administrative support and assistance to other Library staff for the online reading lists system, Keylinks + manage very overdue notices including liaising with patrons and with Finance staff in Directorate of Education and Training + check in new journal issues on serials module + process new print and other media items + assist with Library projects with an immediate project focussing on making PDF scanned documents on reading lists accessible for our disabled users using appropriate software,

• In submitting an application form, you authorise the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk