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POST: Assistant Clinical Librarian
LOCATION: Lancashire
SALARY: £17,714 -21,549
STATUS: 37 hours per week
EMPLOYER: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
EMPLOYER DETAILS: The Trust has excellent childcare facilities, including modern on-site nursery and holiday play schemes.
Investor in People. Positive about disabled people.
DESCRIPTION
We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our Library and Information Services at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to assist the clinical librarian to provide a proactive approach to supporting Clinical Governance, research and the use of evidence based practice in the clinical setting.
This post will play a vital role by the provision of quality filtered research evidence and evaluated information directly to health professionals to support clinical decision-making, by promoting evidence based clinical practice and support education, training and lifelong learning and by assisting in the provision of training in evidence-based information seeking.
You must have a first degree or postgraduate qualification in Librarianship and/or Information Science, knowledge of evidence-based research and at least 2 years experience of working in the health care information sector. Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentational and organisational skills are essential together with a good knowledge of IT and electronic information searching.
For an informal discussion, please phone Debra Thornton on 01772 524763.
Visit our website below to apply on line, view job descriptions and other employment opportunities.
It is strongly recommended that you complete and return your application as soon as possible. The vacancy may be expired when enough suitable applications have been received.
Please note that further communication from the Trust will be to the email address given on the application form. You should ensure that email addresses are provided for your referees wherever possible.
All applicants should note that pay modernisation under Agenda for Change was implemented from 1st October 2004.
All posts will be subject to review and will transfer to the new pay bands from the effective date.
Address Web address <http://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk> Job Ref LT5075 Closing date 06/05/2005
Mandy Beaumont
Library Services Manager
Library and Information Service
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Royal Preston Hospital
Sharoe Green Lane
Fulwood
Preston
PR2 9HT
Tel: 01772 522763
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The library is presently running a trial for all the Oxford Textbooks online . These can be found by going to Trust Home Page > Library Services > eBooks(A-Z) > or eBooks(Subjects). Please contact Andrew Craig at [log in to unmask] for further details.
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