Customer Service Assistant - Letchworth
Job Title: Customer Service Assistant - Letchworth
Starting Salary: £25,185 opportunity to progress to £25,583 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Hours: 6.5 hours per week
Location: Letchworth Library
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.
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.
Letchworth Library is a welcoming community hub in the heart of the world’s first Garden City. We offer a wide range of services including book lending, computers, family learning activities and community programmes for all ages. As a busy and vibrant library, we work to support learning, literacy, wellbeing, and social connection across our local community.
About you
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
Customer Service Assistant roles offer successful applicants the opportunity to get involved in a hugely varied range of activities and help to make a positive difference to people’s lives.
We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.
This job role is Level 4. Please locate the job profile here:
Job profiles - Community services
To hear more about this opportunity please contact Roberta Ferraro Library Manager, 0300 123 4049 for an informal discussion about the role.
Interview Date: 3rd August 2026
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.
Additional information
We are changing
Hertfordshire County Councilis undergoing Local Government Reorganisation (LGR). If you are employed by Hertfordshire County on 1 April 2028, it is expected that most roles will transfer to the newly-created unitary councils on existing terms and conditions under TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings – Protection of Employment) principles.
LGR is one of the biggest changes we will face in a generation. It will reshape how we work and how services are organised and gives us a real opportunity to build something better. To find out more, visit https://www.hertfordshire-lgr.co.uk/
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.
Salary range
- £25,185 - £25,583 per year