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Customer Service Assistant - Hemel Hempstead Library

Hertfordshire County Council

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Hemel Hempstead (On-Site)

Permanent, Part time

No DBS check required

£23,114 opportunity to progress to £23,500


Job Title: Customer Service Assistant - Hemel Hempstead Library
Starting Salary: £23,114 opportunity to progress to £23,500 - Pay Increase pending
Hours: 4.0
Location: Hemel Hempstead
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Resources

About the team

Hertfordshire Libraries provide an innovative, successful service at the heart of the local community including small village libraries, town and city libraries, and performing arts libraries. We deliver key reading, health, learning, information, digital and culture offers including IT support, clubs and activities, access to digital resources and a thriving events programme to ensure we improve residents' lives.

Hemel Hempstead Library is a large town centre library. We offer a wide range of events and activities for adults and children. These include Baby Rhyme Time, Story Time, Lego Club and IT help for customers using our PCs and printing facilities. Customer Service Assistants are required to be involved in all of these activities.

About the role

The role of Customer Service Assistant is varied and directly contributes to the success of our libraries through working collaboratively to deliver excellent customer service, IT support, information services and resources to our library users and assisting with ad hoc library activities as required.

You will be a friendly and confident person who is happy to work in a customer facing role. You will be competent using computer packages for logging and searching for information. You will be organised and comfortable in assisting customers to issue and return books and tidying shelves.

About you

You will have a positive and flexible attitude, and the skills and abilities to successfully interact with customers, completing tasks to deadlines and problem solve, engaging senior colleagues when appropriate.

Essential:
  • Knowledge of and/or experience of working in a customer focussed environment.
  • Evidence of understanding and application of good customer services principles
  • Demonstrable organisational skills, showing a methodical ability to prioritise tasks.
  • Demonstrates a desire to work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve service aims and objectives.
Desirable:
  • Confident speaking to customers of all ages.
  • Basic IT Knowledge
  • Work under own initiative.


This job role is within the Community Services, level COM4 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles - Community services

To hear more about this opportunity please contact Sarah-Lee.Ingegnere@hertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: To Be Confirmed

Benefits of working for us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.

Closing date: Sun 15/09/2024 at 01:00
Job reference: HCC26223
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