Senior Library Assistant in Market Rasen

Location: Market Rasen

Salary: £24,459 per year

Recruiter: GLL

Job Hours: Part-time

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GLL is currently recruiting for a Senior Library Assistant to join the team at Market Rasen Library, working 14 hours per week. As a Senior Library Assistant, you will be working in a busy community focused library giving access to wide variety of collections and resources including books, public access computers and local studies reference collections.

With Community at the heart of everything we do, as a Senior Library Assistant, you ensure that every visitor to the library is welcomed into a clean, safe and attractive environment with useful facilities that keep them wanting to return. As a key frontline staff member, you’ll adapt to, and acknowledge, the diversity of our visitors and what they aim to get out of their library visit as well as helping them to discover our wide range of resources and services. Your passion for libraries and community engagement will be apparent as you help people do everything from discovering new authors to tracking their ancestry from our records, devising and delivering engaging activities for children and families and even helping them find their ideal job using our IT systems.

What you need:

* Experience working within libraries (desirable).

* Evidence of making a difference to customers

* Confident IT skills and knowledge

* Excellent numeracy, literacy and communications skills

* Administration skills

* Experience of using Library Management systems, would be useful

* A real focus on customer service.

* Passion, personality and creativity

* Evidence of being organised and efficient

* Customer Service Qualification (desirable)

* Be a great team player

What you’ll do:

* Work as part of the team to ensure the smooth operation of the library

* Provide a warm welcome and genuine goodbye to all customers, providing guidance and support on how to get the optimum results from their visit by truly engaging with customers to understand the reason behind their visit

* Devise and deliver imaginative and fun children’s activities including story & rhyme time and craft activities.

* Follow Safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults’ policy and procedures

* Follow all Normal and Emergency Operating Procedures as well as adhering to relevant polices and manuals

* Interact with customers through conversations and supporting their needs

* Support customers with all queries available at the library

* Fully participate in and engage in the any training provided.

The posts rota is as below:

Week 1

Monday Off

Tuesday 10am - 5pm

Wednesday 10am – 4.30pm

Thursday Off

Friday Off

Saturday Off

Week 2

Monday Off

Tuesday 10am - 5pm

Wednesday 10am - 4.30pm

Thursday Off

Friday Off

Saturday 10am - 1pm

As a leader within the leisure industry, we can also offer scope to progress your career, and job variety like nowhere else.

In return, you will get:

A part time (14hr) permanent position with a salary of £24,459 pro rata

Discounted membership at our leisure centres

Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)

A fantastic pension scheme

25% off Red Letter Days

25% off Buy a Gift

20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products.

20% off Tea and Tonic products

Free eye tests and discounted glasses

The opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say in how we are run plus associated social events

Exclusive discounts on our villas in Portugal

Exclusive discounts on our Ski chalets in Bulgaria

Health assurance

Career pathways, professional development are just the start. To ensure you stay at the top of your game, we provide training with practical and theory elements too.

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About GLL

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GLL is an independent charitable, social enterprise making community spaces and services better for everyone. We operate over 230 leisure centres and swimming pools, 50 libraries and world-class sporting venues such as Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, the London Aquatics Centre and Copper Box Arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – all run under the ‘Better’ brand. We also run numerous children's centres, recreation grounds, spas, ice rinks and events spaces making us the UK’s largest leisure provider. We partner with many local authorities to make leisure, fitness and library services accessible and affordable to the whole community.

We’re as committed to investing in our people as we are in the communities in which we work and offer real career and personal development opportunities at whatever level you join us. Everyone from our leisure centre staff to our business support and leadership roles have access to dedicated career paths and accredited training.

We’re passionate about our social ethos – which run through everything we do. We aim to enable people to achieve more, be that through the work we do with charities such as The Prince’s Trust to our GLL Sports Foundation which supports and funds the athletes and coaches of tomorrow.