Relief Library Assistant

Salary: £12.60 - £13.05 per hour (As of 1^st April 2025)

Grade: C/D

Contract: Relief

Hours: Relief

Location: Malton Library

Weekend/Evening Working: Yes

Are you dynamic and innovative; an excellent team player; customer focused with a passion for working with people; interested in books; tech savvy; and have a desire to serve your community and make a difference to people's lives?

If so, we need someone like you to provide access to a wide range of reading material, information and electronic resources to the Malton community. As well as day to day library routines, you will help customers and visitors with their enquiries and assist in the use of our public access computers, providing a warm welcome to all our users.

You should have new and exciting ideas and be able to work with a team of staff and volunteers to deliver high quality library & information services and a programme of activities and events. You will need to provide excellent customer service both face to face and digitally, supporting customers to find resources and access our digital services. You will help to promote the Library Service to the wider community and work with a range of partner organisations including our much-valued volunteers.

You will be passionate about reading, have excellent communication and customer service skills, along with a high level of digital literacy and work well within a team of both volunteers and staff. Numeracy and literacy skills to the equivalent of Level 2 is a requirement for this role.

Based at Malton, the library is open 35 hours per week, Monday -Saturdays, including late evenings, availability to work across all opening hours is essential. There may be an occasional requirement to travel elsewhere within the area for which expenses will be payable.

To discuss the vacancy, please contact:

Beccy Roberts on 01609 534562 / Beccy.roberts@northyorks.gov.uk or

Fiona Diaper on 01609 536126 / Fiona.diaper@northyorks.gov.uk

Key Dates:

Closing: Sunday 13^th April 2025

Interviewing: Wednesday 23^rd April 2025 at Malton Library

Key Documents:

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