Senior Library Assistant

About the Job

Are you looking for a promotional opportunity within the Library Service? Do you have great leadership skills? This is your opportunity to be a Senior Library Assistant!

Salary: £22,369 to £22,777 per annum (pro rata for part time - £15,114 to £15,389) with entitlement to Saturday Enhancement working for 7 hours 5 minutes 1 in 2 Saturdays

Working Pattern: Part Time (25 hours per week)

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: East Grinstead, 32-40 West St, East Grinstead RH19 4SR

Interview date: TBC

As a Senior Library Assistant, you will be responsible for the day to data coordination of a small team. You will play a key part in the team and a key contact for those people using the library!

We're looking for friendly, enthusiastic, and resourceful people, with excellent digital skills, to join our team as the key initial contact delivering a customer-facing library service, helping to deliver a high-quality enquiry service, providing information accurately, and signposting to other services.

It's an active role; carrying books, pushing trolleys, lifting boxes and being on your feet for long periods of time. You will also be required to lone-work regularly.

For more information about working in one of our West Sussex Libraries, watch this short video: library recruitment animation video

Working Rota:

Week 1:

Monday 1.00pm - 5.00pm

Tuesday 9.00am - 1.00pm

Wednesday 8.45am - 5.00pm

Thursday 8.45am - 6.05pm

Friday OFF

Saturday OFF

Week 2:

Monday 1.00pm - 5.00pm

Tuesday OFF

Wednesday 8.45am - 4.45pm

Thursday 8.45am - 6.05pm

Friday OFF

Saturday 9.00am - 5.05pm

About You!

You will be a keen team player, able to work alongside partners and volunteers providing excellent customer service to the whole range of visitors to the library.

Flexibility is key as one moment you may be helping a customer log-on to the library Wi-Fi and download an eBook, the next leading a Baby Rhyme Time session for parents and babies. The variety of our work means that no two days are the same. We get huge job satisfaction from helping everyone who comes through our doors, and you could too!

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached

Rewards and Benefits

We care about wellbeing, allowing time for celebrating our teams' efforts, and developing our team to be the best they can be. Alongside this, we also offer the below benefits.

• *An excellent local government pension scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement of 24 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• A range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• Maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• Volunteering opportunities
• Training and development opportunities, including coaching, mentoring and apprenticeships
• A range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders, Wellbeing Hub and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further Information

To apply you will need to complete our application form and upload your CV, in the application you will highlight your skills and experience that you can bring to the role ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory references and health check.

West Sussex County Council is an equal opportunities employer committed to promoting an environment that is inclusive and free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of its people. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and take every possible step to ensure that no individual will be disadvantaged.

For information regarding your eligibility to apply for this role under our Disability or Veteran's Guaranteed Interview Scheme, this can be found on our application help page.