ABOUT US

UCL is London’s global university. LCCOS – Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science – provides outstanding staff, services and resources to support the world-class research, education and enterprise that is undertaken in UCL, and connects the world with UCL through innovative programming and engagement activities. LCCOS is acknowledged as an international leader in Open Science and Scholarship.
The LCCOS family comprises 4 museums and allied object collections, 14 libraries, the UCL Student Centre, Special Collections facilities, multiple additional learning spaces, the Bloomsbury Theatre and a substantial off-site storage facility. We also provide comprehensive services to healthcare staff through our partnerships with 6 NHS Trusts. LCCOS holds the UK Customer Service Excellence (CSE) Award, The National Archives (TNA) Archives Service Accreditation, and Arts Council England Museum Accreditation. The combined staff in UCL LCCOS totals around 440.

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for candidates who in particular have the following experience and skills:

• You will have experience of delivering library skills training in an academic or NHS environment, and some familiarity with biomedical information resources.
• Involvement with promotion and outreach
• Experience of having worked within a team delivering academic library services, and of communicating with students or NHS staff is essential.

The advert will close on the published date at 23:59 GMT. Interviews will be held at Royal Free Hospital Medical Library.
A job description and person specification can be accessed from the link at the bottom of this page.

FURTHER DETAILS TO APPLY, PLEASE PROVIDE:

• An up-to-date CV, including as a minimum detail of your current employment, salary and notice period, details of any former employment and your education history.
• A supporting statement, showing how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria marked ‘Application’ in the Person Specification found within the Job Description for this post. Your statement should be provided using the free text box under ‘Questionnaire’.
  If you have any queries about the role or have any queries about the application process, please contact lccos-jobs@ucl.ac.uk, quoting the job title and reference number.
  Further information about UCL LCCOS can be found on our website https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lccos/
  The UCL Ways of Working supports colleagues to be successful and happy at UCL through sharing expectations around how we work – please visit www.ucl.ac.uk/ways-of-working to find out more.

Royal Free London Library Services (RFLLS) support staff and students from the UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences (SLMS), and from the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, working and studying across the Royal Free London Hospitals.
The RFLLS libraries provide a mixture of quiet and group working spaces, and computing and teaching areas for both organisations. RFLLS also facilitates access to an extensive range of online information resources and delivers a programme of library and information skills training for individuals and groups.

The Senior Library Assistant (Skills) is a part of the RFLLS team, responsible for delivering library services to UCL staff and students, and NHS staff working across all of the Royal Free London NHS Trust hospitals. Key elements of the role are:

• Providing day-to-day delivery of, and support for library skills training.
• Delivering frontline customer services, and administrative tasks including marketing and communication campaigns.

This is a mainly on-campus role (minimum of 75% working hours), based primarily at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, but with the potential for working at other Royal Free Hospital sites, at Barnet and Chase Farm. It is also suitable for occasional remote working, at times to be agreed with line management.