Prison Library Officer

Prison Library Officer Morecambe, England

Lancashire County Council
Full Time Morecambe, England 24054 - 27852 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

| Salary £24,054 - £27,852 Per annum | Part time | Fixed term to 5/5/2024 | 31 hours per week | Lancaster Farms Prison Library | Lancaster |

Are you:

  • a strong leader and able to manage a team
  • customer focused
  • passionate about working with people
  • confident in using digital resources
  • interested in libraries and their communities
  • keen to develop transferrable skills?

If so, we have an ideal opportunity for you!

As a prison library officer you will lead 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 officer 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 strong leadership skills
  • have the ability to develop 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 and orderlies
  • be able to deliver a customer focused service in a prison environment

This is a temporary post based at Lancaster Farms Prison library until 5 th May, 2024. HMP Lancaster Farms Prison is a category C 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 on occasion require you to work evenings and weekends and at other locations and may also involve lone working. The hours are 31 per week and therefore the annual salary quoted will be pro rata.

Please use the Prison Library Officer 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 01772 537913/07771371444.

Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.

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.

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Job Description and Person Specification

Prison Library Officer
Lancashire County Council

www.lancashire.gov.uk
Preston, United Kingdom
Angie Ridgwell
$2 to $5 billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Government
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