Liaison Librarian NHS

An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic and experienced health librarian to join the team at our Medical Library as Liaison Librarian, delivering and developing services for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Reporting to the Head of Medical Library Services, you will work closely with the Liaison Librarian for the School of Clinical Medicine and will manage a Library Assistant. You will also work very closely with multi-disciplinary NHS staff.

You will play an active part in delivering and developing services in literature searching, current awareness, information skills training, and more. You will creatively promote the library services by develop relationships with NHS colleagues and raising awareness through outreach activities.

We are open to candidates with varying levels of experience and are willing to under-appoint the position at Grade 5 and provide training support for candidates who do not have experience in the following areas:

• medical or health librarianship.
• experience of supporting systematic reviews
• knowledge of issues related to delivery library services to the NHS community

Candidates with experience of the above are welcomed and will be considered for the higher appointment.

Please specify in your application if you have a particular level in mind you would like to be considered for.

We particularly welcome applications from candidates from a BAME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our institution.

Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be directed to Isla Kuhn at ilk21@cam.ac.uk 

The closing date for applications is 13 April 2025 Interviews are planned to be held on Thursday 29 April 2025

To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please click the 'Apply' button, above.

Please quote reference VE45520 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

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