Apologies for cross posting and the Easter pun ...





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Dear All,







We have 2 year fixed term full time opportunity available for a Library Support Assistant: Counter and Collection (Band 4 - £18,402 - £21,798) at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham - http://www.uhb.nhs.uk/library-services.htm







Job applications must be made via the NHS website: http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/ i.e. no CVs emailed to me will be accepted ....







Job reference = 304-001517



Closing date: 12th April 2012



Provisional interview date: 26th April 2012







Please direct any enquiries about this post to Jennie Cooke, Trust Library Manager - [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> All correspondence concerning this vacancy will be sent by email, so please check your account regularly.







The main responsibilities of the role include:



1) To provide clerical assistance to the Librarian: Resources and Research in relation to collection development, cataloguing, acquisitions and circulation activities.

2) To be responsible for various projects to improve the library service

3) To be responsible for managing the day to day activities at the Library counter/enquiry desk; this requires allocating tasks and prioritising work.

4) To supervise library staff undertaking certain aspects of the counter routines e.g. jobs of the week, resource processing

5) To undertake counter duties either as the senior in charge or as part of the Counter Rota

6) To carry out inter Library loan procedures and literature searches



About the Trust:



University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) http://www.uhb.nhs.uk/ is one of the leading hospitals in Europe and has an international reputation for quality of care, information technology, clinical training and research. UHB provides direct clinical services to nearly 700,000 patients every year, serving a regional, national and international population. It is a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics and has the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe.



UHB employs over 7,200 staff and successfully transferred its services from two hospitals, into the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham which opened its doors to patients on June 16, 2010. It has 1,213 inpatient beds, 32 operating theatres and a 100-bed critical care unit, the largest co-located critical care unit in the world. UHB is host to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) and is world-renowned for its pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries. UHB has been designated both a Level 1 trauma centre and host of the UK's first and only National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Centre for Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology.



Happy Easter everyone ....



Jennie



Jennie Cooke

Trust Library Manager

Tel:



 +44 (0) 121 371 2488



Internal:



 12488



Email:



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Web:



 http://www.uhb.nhs.uk







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