Prison Library Assistant

| Salary £21,189 - £21,968 Per annum | Part time | Permanent | 22.5 hours per week | Leyland |

Are you:

• Able to help, support & engage with prisoners, staff & colleagues
• Able to work as part of team
• customer focused
• confident in using digital resources
• interested in libraries and the benefit to their prison communities
• Organised, calm & practical
• accurate and have good attention to detail?

If so, we have an ideal opportunity for you!

As a prison library assistant, you will work as part of a team including prisoners, who as orderlies will work alongside you to deliver high quality library and information services, enable the delivery of activities and events to the prison community, assist prisoners and staff to access information and resources and encourage use by the prison community. A prison library assistant is a unique, inspiring, customer service role that offers an opportunity to make a difference, it is challenging but rewarding. You will work with library staff, education and reducing and reoffending teams to help prisoners to improve their situation whilst in custody and for future release.

You will:

• have demonstrable teamwork skills
• contribute towards an excellent service for your users

• have a love for reading and be passionate & proactive about sharing this
• have excellent communication and digital skills
• be able to work with a range of partners, volunteers & orderlies
• be able to deliver a customer focused service in a prison environment

This is a permanent post based at HMP Garth prison library. HMP Garth Prison is a category B adult male prison. The library is a branch of Lancashire County Council Libraries, and the staff work closely with Lancashire Library staff, other prison library staff, prison staff and partners. The role may require you to work evenings and weekends and at other locations and may also involve lone working. The hours are 22.5 hour per week and the annual salary quoted will be pro rata. Please use the Prison Library Assistant Person Specification, within the role profile attachment, detailing the criteria you need to include within your application, please note CVs will not be considered.

If you would like an informal discussion or any further information, please contact Nicola Walmsley on 01772 537913.

This position is part time, please note the salary quoted is full time equivalent, the salary received will be paid on a pro–rata basis.

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.

We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.

Job description and person specification

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