Location
Stockton on Tees, County Durham | United Kingdom
Job description
- Are you looking for something a little bit different in an environment that can be challenging and rewarding at the same time?
- Do you have the skills to encourage a love of the written word and help improve literacy.
Stockton Libraries & Information Service is passionate about providing access to quality books, information, IT, events and activities to residents across the borough.
We currently have a vacancy for a Librarian, working between HMP Holme House and Kirklevington Grange Prisons. We are looking for somebody who has a positive attitude and a commitment to delivering a quality service with a real interest in community and fostering positive relationships with partners and prisoners.
Experience of partnership working is essential as you will work with the Prison Service and partners to develop, promote and deliver outreach activities within both settings, thinking up new and innovative ways of engaging the Community at both Prison Sites helping stimulate wellbeing and the pleasure of reading.
You will need to be assertive, enthusiastic, reliable and flexible with good communication skills as you will work with adult male prisoners of various ages and from a range of backgrounds alongside staff from the prison & partner organisations. Experience of managing staff and planning timetables are essential alongside excellent ICT skills as well as the ability to produce statistical reports and manipulate data.
Previous library experience is essential as is an interest in reading and knowledge of books.
You will use our Library Management System, for which training will be given. You are required to have a degree in Librarianship and experience of managing a Library and staff .
We offer an excellent total reward package including a competitive salary, generous Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement as well as access to a number of additional employee benefits and a wide range of learning and development opportunities.
If you would like an informal discussion about the post, please contact
Deb McDonagh on 01642 528484
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council is not a UKVI Sponsor therefore we are unable to provide visa sponsorship.
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£29.78k - £31.36k per annum
