Job Description
Position:
Library Adviser - fixed term until 31/10/2025 Location:
Central Library - Central Lending and Children's Library Team & Oxgangs Library Salary:
£25,322 - £27,727 (Pro-rata for part-time) Hours:
30.38 per week
Our libraries are at the heart of our communities, and our dedicated staff teams provide book lending services and library-based activities for everyone of all ages, encouraging a lifelong love of reading and enjoying books. For young people, we provide Bookbug for the under-fives, class visits, and after-school book groups for primary school children, and dedicated evening and weekend support for teens. Our adult visitors are provided with a great offering of titles to read across traditional and digital platforms, ongoing IT support, groups to engage and interact with, and specialised library support for the elderly. Our library service is always evolving, and we look forward to discovering new ways to work with and support our communities.
Responsibilities: Provide excellent customer service and communicate effectively with a wide range of people. Support families, toddlers, primary and secondary aged young people, students, and adults of all ages. Deliver activities and services to various community groups. Work in any of our libraries across the Edinburgh Library Service area. Be prepared to work evenings and Saturdays.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work. We recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
Requirements: To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring
Our Behaviours
of
Respect, Integrity , and
Flexibility
into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page:
Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Follow us on Twitter at @edincounciljobs
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Position:
Library Adviser - fixed term until 31/10/2025 Location:
Central Library - Central Lending and Children's Library Team & Oxgangs Library Salary:
£25,322 - £27,727 (Pro-rata for part-time) Hours:
30.38 per week
Our libraries are at the heart of our communities, and our dedicated staff teams provide book lending services and library-based activities for everyone of all ages, encouraging a lifelong love of reading and enjoying books. For young people, we provide Bookbug for the under-fives, class visits, and after-school book groups for primary school children, and dedicated evening and weekend support for teens. Our adult visitors are provided with a great offering of titles to read across traditional and digital platforms, ongoing IT support, groups to engage and interact with, and specialised library support for the elderly. Our library service is always evolving, and we look forward to discovering new ways to work with and support our communities.
Responsibilities: Provide excellent customer service and communicate effectively with a wide range of people. Support families, toddlers, primary and secondary aged young people, students, and adults of all ages. Deliver activities and services to various community groups. Work in any of our libraries across the Edinburgh Library Service area. Be prepared to work evenings and Saturdays.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work. We recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
Requirements: To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring
Our Behaviours
of
Respect, Integrity , and
Flexibility
into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page:
Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Follow us on Twitter at @edincounciljobs
#J-18808-Ljbffr
