Glasgow Life: Information Officer

What you need to know:

• Hours: 17.5 hours per week.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay details: The listed salary is for a full-time role. If you’re applying for a part-time or bank job, we will calculate your pay on a pro-rata basis. The hourly rate is £16.98 per hour.
• Location: The Mitchell Library with excellent public transport links and free parking on site.

While the anticipated pattern is likely to be 2 days one week and 3 days the next, we are very happy to discuss different working hour arrangements at interview. We encourage candidates to raise any preferences or requirements, as we are open to finding a pattern that works for both the service and the successful applicant.

What you’ll do

As the Information Officer (Resource Unit for Vision Impairment / Inclusion Services), you’ll be a part of an established team, reporting to a Libraries & Communities Officer. You’ll play an essential role in delivering services in the Resource Unit for the Visually Impaired. Your work will make a visible and lasting difference. You will, amongst other things, assist in the delivery of RUVI services to clients, support service users in the direct application of technology to enable improved service access and facilitate a programme of workforce development activity to raise awareness, confidence in assistive technologies and enable methods to support staff referring and connecting potential service users to RUVI’s opportunities.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone with the right skills who brings energy to the role. If the following sounds like you, apply today!

We’re looking for someone that has the following skills:

• Strong communication, self-development and decision making.
• Excellent customer care
• Outcome driven
• Experience of living with disability, or supporting individuals with a disability, and/or an in-depth understanding of the issues affecting people living with a disability

Download the Person Specification in the Job Attachments section on MyJobScotland. Use this to shape your application and show how your experience aligns with the job.

When selecting candidates for interviews, managers will look for candidates who meet all the ‘essential’ criteria listed in the Person Specification. If there are many candidates, they may also consider desirable skills. So, include those if they apply to you.

If you still have questions about the role, please contact us at dawn.vallance@glasgowlife.org.ukto arrange an informal chat.

What we offer

We support you to live a great life. Inside and outside of work. Some of our benefits include:

Holiday

When you join, you’ll get 30 days’ holiday. Plus 6.5 public holidays if you’re full-time. This increases to 35 days after 5 years of service.

Fancy a bit more time off? You can buy extra holiday too!

Pension

Join the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) – a Defined Benefit scheme that provides you with a secure pension for later life.

Flexibility and development

We are proud of our flexible and inclusive work policies, which help you balance work and life. We also offer support for learning, development and career progression.

Please note that Glasgow Life is an Arm’s Length External Organisation to Glasgow City Council. We are currently completing a Job Evaluation exercise and introducing a new pay and grading structure. This may impact current salaries quoted in job adverts. To learn more, visit – https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/jobevaluation.

Important Dates:

The closing date for this job is 11.59pm on 22nd March Interviews are provisionally scheduled for week commencing 30th March