Weekend Assistant

Job introduction

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About the role

This is an opportunity to join our LibraryPlus team at Towcester Library, where you will use your customer-facing skills to deliver a wide range of services, including the provision of activities and services for communities, children and their families. Dealing with a variety of enquiries and tasks, including joining new borrowers, cash handling, and supporting volunteers, you will ensure that each customer has a positive experience in the library.

This role will require regular weekend working and candidates will need to be flexible to the business needs of the service, including the ability to travel to other locations as required. This post is part time, working 4 hours each Saturday between 10am - 2pm. The role will be based at Towcester Library.

Additional information

Can you provide excellent customer service to all visitors to Towcester LibraryPlus?

• Are you motivated and enthusiastic with a proactive approach?

• Are you creative and excited about delivering and supporting memorable activities for children and their families?

• Are you passionate about serving your local community and seeking partnerships with local organisations to benefit library customers?

Company information

At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.

Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential.  We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner

The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.

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