Clinical Outreach Librarian
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting post for a qualified, outgoing, and creative librarian / information specialist. The role involves assisting the Library and Knowledge Services Manager in providing services to support Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust staff and students. The aim is to enhance patient care and management decision-making through proactive and innovative library and knowledge services. This includes promoting services, engaging staff, and utilising technology to deliver and promote resources.
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level
- Professional qualification in librarianship, information studies or information science related disciplines.
Desirable criteria
- CILIP - working towards chartership
- ECDL or equivalent
- 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
- 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
- Skills / Abilities
- 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
- Ability and experience of creating guides and course materials
- Familiarity with library management systems
- 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
- Education / Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Knowledge
- Educated to degree level
- Professional qualification in librarianship, information studies or information science related disciplines.
- CILIP - working towards chartership
- ECDL or equivalent
- 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
- 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
- Skills / Abilities
- 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
- Ability and experience of creating guides and course materials
- Familiarity with library management systems
- 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
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £36,943 – £44,900 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Outreach Librarian
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting post for a qualified, outgoing, and creative librarian / information specialist. As part of a small team the post holder with assist the Library and Knowledge Services Manager in the provision of services to support Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust staff and students in using evidence-based practice in decision-making. Through developing, promoting and delivering proactive and innovative library and knowledge services, readily accessed at the point of need, this will enhance the quality of patient care and management decision making.
Main duties of the job
- 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 m
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