Overview
Saturday Assistant – NN16 0AY
Our Benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About the role
Do you want to be part of a team providing excellent customer service to the local community? Do you have a passion for helping people? Are you a confident communicator with keen listening skills? If so, this might be the role for you.
We have an exciting opportunity to join our LibraryPlus team as a Saturday Assistant to help deliver a wide range of services and events to the local community.
North Northamptonshire Council Libraries are community hubs and our Saturday Assistants are at the heart of the frontline assisting customers with accessing the Library systems, supporting events and dealing with a variety of enquiries. Providing digital support, our Saturday assistants will aid customers with their IT skills, enabling them to self-serve using the NNC website and other online services effectively and confidently.
About you
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and people focused Saturday Assistant to join the team at Kettering Library. Reporting to the Library Manager you will contribute to delivering an excellent experience to our customers in the local community. This is a role which will require you to work frontline with customers and also with colleagues, volunteers, partner organisations.
As the successful candidate, you will bring:
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Excellent communication skills with ability communicate with a wide variety of people
- Confident IT Skills
- Enthusiasm with a flexible, positive attitude
It would also be beneficial for you to have:
- Experience of customer service delivery
- Experience of supporting events
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
