# Clinical Outreach Librarian > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-outreach-librarian/04a7edca-3cdb-4e91-bb98-fc4b6b211ac0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-outreach-librarian/04a7edca-3cdb-4e91-bb98-fc4b6b211ac0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Kingston Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £36,943 - £44,900 p.a. pro rata. Including HCAS Outer - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-23T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-09T11:31:15.205Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Kingston_Upon_Thames/Kingston_Richmond_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Library_knowledge_services/Library_knowledge_services-v8275752 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8275752?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kingstonandrichmond.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting post for a qualified, outgoing, and creative librarian / information specialist. As part of a small team the post holder with assist the Library and Knowledge Services Manager in the provision of services to support Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust staff and students in using evidence-based practice in decision-making. Through developing, promoting and delivering proactive and innovative library and knowledge services, readily accessed at the point of need, this will enhance the quality of patient care and management decision making. ### Main duties of the job - To be proactive and flexible in finding opportunities to promote the library services and alert users to the relevant services and resources by all possible means - To be responsible for developing innovative strategies for engaging staff in their workplaces, promoting the relevance of evidence in planning and decision making in clinical, management and service redesign scenarios - To promote national, regional and local library and knowledge services and resources, to Trust staff by a variety of means, identifying the need for, and delivering, further training and support for those resources as needed. - To create, procure and use a variety of promotional material in various formats and in various settings. - To develop and maintain Stenhouse Library’s presence on social media platforms and work with other members of the Library Team to utilise and develop emerging and available technology to support the delivery and promotion of all Library Services. - Publicise and promote the Clinical librarian service using a targeted marketing strategy for the Clinical librarian service that could include producing and delivering presentations to local conferences and study days to specific individual teams and particular professional group. For full details of the role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specifications. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for more information about the role. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Familiarity with library management systems **Desirable** - Knowledge of marketing principles - Understanding of relevant legislation e.g. Copyright, Data protection, Freedom of Information - An understanding of the NHS and the information needs of its staff - Knowledge of the principles of evidence-based practice in health care & healthcare bibliographic databases ### Experience **Essential** - Practical experience of working in a library or information service - Experience of undertaking literature searches using online databases and Internet resources - Ability to actively demonstrate a high level of understanding about web 2.0 technologies and how they can be used in library services **Desirable** - Experience of working in a healthcare or academic library - Experience of marketing and promoting a service and its resources within an organisation - Experience of training staff -1:1 or groups in a variety of formats including online ### Skills / Abilities **Essential** - Excellent written/oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders and service users - Excellent presentation skills - Ability to work on own initiative and collaboratively as part of a team - Effective time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines - Excellent IT literacy using IT application systems, database and the internet - Ability to work under pressure - Excellent organisational, interpersonal and customer care skills **Desirable** - Ability and experience of creating guides and course materials ### Education / Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Knowledge **Essential** - Educated to degree level - Professional qualification in librarianship, information studies or information science related disciplines. **Desirable** - CILIP - working towards chartership - ECDL or equivalent ## Documents - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2412) - [functional requirements (pdf, 313.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10591629) - [clinical outreach librarian (pdf, 560.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10591628) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.