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Dear All,

We have a part time job share opportunity (15 hours per week) available for a Librarian: Research and Resources (Band 5 - £21,388  - £27,901 pro-rata).  The post is available for a fixed 2 year contract. The post holder may choose to work either on a 'Monday and Tuesday' or a 'Thursday and Friday;' however, due to the nature of this post, no other working pattern can be considered. Please clearly state your preference in your application.

The post holder supports evidence based healthcare, research, clinical audit and continuing professional development through collection development, stock selection and marketing, as well as providing outreach support and evidence based practice training. The Library has a substantial stock budget and follows an ‘electronic first ‘policy for resources. The post holder will also work with the remaining library team to contribute to the day-to-day running of the Library and Information Service.

The post is at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, located in sunny and leafy Edgbaston. We are a staff library within an NHS Hospital. Our users range from students on placement (medical, nursing and allied health) to medical staff, to admin support staff. Details of our Library service can be located at  http://www.uhb.nhs.uk/library-services.htm 

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

Job reference = 304-002652

Closing date: 19^th August 2013 or when 75 applications are received

Provisional interview date: 29^th August 2013 (please note this could change)

About the Trust:

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is the leading university teaching hospital in the West Midlands. It provides traditional secondary care services to the South Birmingham catchment area. Specialist tertiary care is provided mainly across the West Midlands and a proportion of the Trust activity is provided to patients who are referred from outside the region. The Trust runs two hospitals, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Selly Oak Hospital, which provide adult services to nearly 700,000 patients every year, from a single outpatient appointment to a heart transplant. The Trust is a regional centre for cancer, trauma, burns and plastics, and has the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. The Trust employs around 6,900 staff and is home to Birmingham's first new acute hospital in 70 years.

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

Good luck …

Jennie

Jennie Cooke

Trust Library Manager