Clinical Outreach Librarian

• To be proactive and flexible in finding opportunities to promote the library services and alert users to the relevant services and resources by all possible means
• To be responsible for developing innovative strategies for engaging staff in their workplaces, promoting the relevance of evidence in planning and decision making in clinical, management and service redesign scenarios
• To promote national, regional and local library and knowledge services and resources, to Trust staff by a variety of means, identifying the need for, and delivering, further training and support for those resources as needed.
• To create, procure and use a variety of promotional material in various formats and in various settings.
• To develop and maintain Stenhouse Library's presence on social media platforms and work with other members of the Library Team to utilise and develop emerging and available technology to support the delivery and promotion of all Library Services.
• Publicise and promote the Clinical librarian service using a targeted marketing strategy for the Clinical librarian service that could include producing and delivering presentations to local conferences and study days to specific individual teams and particular professional group.

For full details of the role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specifications.

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust cares for more than half a million patients a year, from across Kingston, Richmond, Elmbridge (Surrey), Merton, Wandsworth and Sutton. In 2018, we became the first acute hospital trust in London to be rated "Outstanding" for overall quality and leadership by the national Care Quality Commission regulator.

We have approximately 350 beds and directly employ around 2,900 staff. Our trust provides a full range of diagnostic services and treatment services. Our main site is the Kingston Hospital site but we also run a number of outpatient clinics in the community, including in Raynes Park, Surbiton, Queen Mary's Roehampton and Teddington.

Education / Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Knowledge:

Essential: - Educated to degree level; - Professional qualification in librarianship, information studies or information science related disciplines.

Desirable: - CILIP - working towards chartership; - ECDL or equivalent

Essential: - Practical experience of working in a library or information service; - Experience of undertaking literature searches using online databases and Internet resources; - Ability to actively demonstrate a high level of understanding about web 2.0 technologies and how they can be used in library services

Desirable: - Experience of working in a healthcare or academic library; - Experience of marketing and promoting a service and its resources within an organisation; - Experience of training staff -1:1 or groups in a variety of formats including online

Essential: - Excellent written/oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders and service users; - Excellent presentation skills; - Ability to work on own initiative and collaboratively as part of a team; - Effective time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines; - Excellent IT literacy using IT application systems, database and the internet; - Ability to work under pressure; - Excellent organisational, interpersonal and customer care skills

Desirable: - Ability and experience of creating guides and course materials

Essential: - Familiarity with library management systems

Desirable: - Knowledge of marketing principles; - Understanding of relevant legislation e.g. Copyright, Data protection, Freedom of Information; - An understanding of the NHS and the information needs of its staff; - Knowledge of the principles of evidence-based practice in health care & healthcare bibliographic databases