Education & Research Support Librarian

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Detail information about job Education & Research Support Librarian. Terms and conditions vacancy

Latrobe Regional Hospital (LRH) is the major provider of specialist health services in the Gippsland region, east of Melbourne.  Our comprehensive range of services extends to emergency and intensive care, elective surgery, allied health, obstetrics, medical and radiation oncology at the Gippsland Cancer Care Centre, dialysis and aged care.

LRH has a number of outstanding facilities following a recent expansion. These include a cardiac catheterisation laboratory, large Emergency Department, endoscopy suites and modern and contemporary inpatient units. These complement extensive Allied Health amenities including a gym and pool.

LRH is the regional provider of mental health services in Gippsland. LRH Mental Health Service operates an integrated specialist mental health program across the region and provides inpatient and community mental health care for adults, children and young people and older persons.

Gippsland provides a fantastic regional lifestyle with easy access to Melbourne.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and suitably qualified Education & Research Support Librarian to join the Library team at Latrobe Regional Hospital on a part time basis.

Reporting to the Library Manager the successful applicant will play an important role in working to enhance outreach links and ensuring library resources and training to support the research process and foster research growth at Latrobe Regional Hospital (LRH).

The successful applicant will be required to:

• Develop, design and deliver digital information literacy program to clinical and non-clinical staff at hospital level
• Embed a digital information literacy framework into healthcare discipline to develop and design quality training programs to support staff professional development
• Deliver quality information education and research skills training programs to empower staff to search evidence-based literature, critical appraise literature effectively, organise information source with tools and use information ethically

 To be successful in this position you will need to have:

• Knowledge of or experience in designing digital information literacy program in medicine/healthcare discipline
• Knowledge of and experience in research output and data management
• An understanding of the trend of research, publication environment and process.

For further information about this position please contact Dr Simon Fraser, Chief Medical Officer on (03) 5173 8823.

Applicants will be required to apply for and satisfactorily obtain a National Police Check and Working with Children Check. 

Latrobe Regional Hospital supports Equal Employment Opportunity by recognising and valuing inclusion and diversity. The hospital encourages all people from different cultures and backgrounds to apply for our advertised positions.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent applicants are encouraged to apply. Successful appointment will be based on merit and satisfactorily passing a Police Check and Working With Children’s Check. LRH’s Koori Health Liaison Officer is available to assist on (03) 5173 8831.