Evening & Weekend Library Assistant

You will join the Reader Services team at the Weston Library, home to the Bodleian Libraries' special collections, helping readers access its outstanding resources. You will welcome and register readers, respond to enquiries, issue and return material, assist with catalogues and IT facilities, and help maintain safe, welcoming reading rooms. You will also move, shelve and carefully handle library material, including rare and fragile collections.

You will be educated to GCSE level or equivalent, with excellent customer care, clear and courteous communication skills, and good general IT literacy. You will be reliable, accurate, and comfortable working in a team, prioritising tasks in a busy environment and handling books and journals safely. Previous library or customer service experience and familiarity with library systems would be advantageous.

This is a permanent part-time post, working 9.58 hours per week. The anticipated working pattern is 16:50-19:00 on three weekdays and 09:50-16:00 every other Saturday. Some flexibility may be required. Due to the nature of this post, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a satisfactory Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check due to access to rare and valuable special collections., As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees' wellbeing and this is reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:

• An excellent contributory pension scheme
• 38 days of annual leave
• A comprehensive range of childcare services
• Family leave schemes
• Cycle loan scheme
• Discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans