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Libraries Literacy Officer (Job Share), 22.5 hours
Do you like a challenge? Are you self-motivated? Are you enthusiastic about providing high levels of service and have a positive friendly attitude towards children, young people and families?
We have an exciting vacancy for an individual to act as a jobshare in the post of Libraries Literacy Officer. You will join the Children's Library team providing flexible support to the Children's Librarian, working with schools for the Summer Reading Challenge and encouraging a love of reading amongst children and young people.
Interview date: Thursday 27 February
Role Purpose
To assist with the provision and development of children's and young people's work to help to support the delivery of high quality, customer centred and inclusive library and information service.
Main Responsibilities
Assist with the effective delivery of the Summer Reading Challenge and other literacy initiatives.
Actively promote events and initiatives such as the Summer Reading Challenge to teaching staff and school children via school assembles and other means.
Strive for continuous improvement in children's and young people's work using digital methods where appropriate.
Work with internal and external partnerships to support library services to children and young people.
Foster links with schools and partnerships to support library services to children and young people.
Assist the Children's and Young People's Librarian in the delivery of reading initiatives such as the 'Bookstart' reading initiative, Cultural Hub and Young People's Volunteering initiatives.
Work to targets, undertake training and to help with the training of library colleagues
Work with partners, organisations and families to encourage family literacy.
Support the Children's and Young People's Librarian as necessary with reader development initiatives and support children's and teens work in the library branches.
The Ideal Candidate
Experience working in a library or classroom environment.
Direct responsibility for organising children's activities.
Highly literate and able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
Highly developed interpersonal skills, particularly with children and young people.
Engaging, effective confident presentation skills in front of large audiences of young people.
Strong time management and organisational skills.
ICT skills including the Microsoft Office Suite, excel, Microsoft Teams, Internet.
Strong commitment to promote the service enthusiastically in a positive and customer focused way.
A willingness to be involved in all aspects of the Children's and Youth Library Service.
Positive attitude to working in a change environment.
Ability to work within different libraries around the conurbation.
For an informal discussion regarding the role please contact Theresa Randall at theresa.randall@bcpcouncil.gov.uk.
About BCP Council
BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.
Our Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package to colleagues. Find out more on our website
As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils.
We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward. If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.
