Library Assistant

at  Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a reliable, motivated person to join our team to provide a service at the Oxford Road site library. You will help us to ensure that the Oxford Road site library delivers a high-quality service to all staff and students on placement as well as taking an integrative approach within the wider service across the whole group.
The post holder will be working three days per week between 11am and 7pm on Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and 9am to 5m on Fridays. The post holder will be required to work alone for part of the day and be able to close or open the library as required.
As part of a wider service covering four sites you will work as part of an administrative support team to the whole library function to enable daily processes to be completed to a required schedule.
To provide a library assistant service to users of the site library including user enquiries, issuing and returning stock, stock management, managing the site email inbox, providing articles requested by service users both internal and external, running administrative tasks on the library stock management system, providing administrative support to other sites within the MFT library service.
The post holder will also be involved in administrative support of our current service level agreements with NHS ambulance services and Health Education England.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘ Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk .
We’re looking forward to hearing from you

Please refer the Job description for details