CILIP | Case Study - NHS Trust Librarian/Education and Training

Working in a NHS Trust: Trust Librarian/Education and Training

by Sue Peacock

Organisation
Providing a library and information service to a hospital community is particularly interesting and challenging. The library supports all staff, not just doctors and nurses and their requirements are very different. My particular role as library and primary care trainer is to make sure that all staff are equipped with the necessary skills to access and effectively search the databases and websites relevant to their work. In this I liaise closely with the IT department. Staff are trained in groups in the IT suite, particular staff group or in one-to-one sessions and in the case of primary care staff training is usually delivered at their surgeries or medical practices.

Main Duties
• Designing, delivering and evaluating training courses in information retrieval skills to all Trust staff and to staff in local Primary Care Trusts, using biomedical databases and other quality health information resources on the internet.

• Providing inductions and library tours to all new Trust staff and inductions to new medical staff. Providing inductions and tours to all new students on placement in the Trust.

• Promoting the training offered using presentations at clinical meetings, workshops and other training opportunities.

• Liaising with the IT, HR, and Research and Development departments to provide seamless training across the Trust.

• Liaising with other librarians and trainers to provide seamless training within the Workforce Development Confederation and across the region.

• Networking generally within the wider health community to raise awareness of resources and training opportunities available to healthcare staff.

• Producing and maintaining training materials for the Workforce Development Confederation's virtual library.

Sue Peacock
Trust Librarian: Education & Training
Good Hope Hospital Trust
Sue.peacock@goodhope.nhs.uk

Updated: 24 October 2005

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Working in a NHS Trust: Trust Librarian/Education and Training