Lifelong Learning Library Adviser

Job Description

Place

Library Adviser - fixed term 31/10/2025
Central Library - Central Lending and Children's Library Team & Oxgangs Library

Salary: £25,322 - £27,727 (Pro-rata for part time)
Hours 30.38 per week

Our libraries are at the heart of our communities and our dedicated staff teams provide book lending services and library based activities for everyone of all ages, encouraging a lifelong love of reading and enjoying books. For young people we provide Bookbug for the under-fives, class visits and after-school book groups for primary school children, and dedicated evening and weekend support for teens. Our adult visitors are provided with a great offering of titles to read across traditional and digital platforms, ongoing IT support, groups to engage and interact with and specialised library support for the elderly. Our library service is always evolving and we look forward to discovering new ways to work with and support our communities. Candidates should ideally have some experience of working with the public and be able to demonstrate excellent customer service, and an ability to communicate with a wide range of people.

We equally value everyone of all ages to our libraries and successful candidates will be able to demonstrate that they have the knowledge and understanding to support families, toddlers, primary and secondary aged young people, students, adults of all ages. Candidates should also have and be able to display some basic computer skills such as using the internet, word processing, spreadsheets, printers and other work-related equipment. If you feel you can be an effective team player in a service that puts our communities and their people first, please apply. Successful candidates will be involved with the delivery of activities and services to all of these groups, supporting their team to further develop these relationships and enhancing our provision to the community. ( These vacancies are offered at Central Library and Oxgangs library. However, successful candidates will be expected to work in any of our libraries across the setting within the Edinburgh Library Service area.

You must be prepared to work evenings and Saturdays. The shift pattern for this post is attached.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

Requirements

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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