September 6, 2024

Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth

PART TIME

Weekend Library Assistant

Weekend Library Assistant Salary: Band 4 - £23,152 - £24,362 p.a. (£3,597 - £3,785 for 5.75 hours, £4,223 - £4,444 for 6.75 hours pro rata) Hours: We have a mix of 5.75 hours of 6.75 hours per week to be worked every Saturday.
We have six hours per week to be worked every Sunday
Please indicate on your application the hours/days you are applying for

Portsmouth City Council
At Portsmouth City Council we're all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city but we need the best employees to do so.
With a little over 207,000 residents and 7,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority's main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to multi-million pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.
Your New Role
We are looking for an outgoing friendly person with good communication and customer service skills to join our library service, where you will provide a quality service whilst meeting the learning and recreational needs of all who live, work or study in the city and elsewhere.
You will assist the public in using and accessing library services from the library counters, floors and workrooms and deliver an effective Information, Enquiry and Reader Development Service. As well as issuing and discharging books and processing new members, you will support the delivery and development of activities, events and other library offers as required including reading stories to children and lead Rhymetime sessions. Other tasks will include cash handling duties, responsibility for building security, maintaining the appearance of the library for service users and processing orders of new library material stock.
What you'll need to succeed
You will be an outgoing friendly person with good communication and customer care skills who is confident to work with the public as well as being able to deal with challenging service users/disruptive visitors to the library. A team player who is flexible and able to adapt quickly to different work situations and locations. You will have a good literacy and numeracy skills to fulfil the needs of the role being able to converse at ease with the customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English.

Application process:
How to apply:
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
Closing: 23 September 2024 @ 23:59 pm,
Applications received after this may not be considered.
We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk