Saturday Assistant

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

Do you want to be part of a team providing excellent customer service to the local community? Do you have a passion for helping people? Are you a confident communicator with keen listening skills? If so, this might be the role for you.  

We have an exciting opportunity to join our LibraryPlus team as a Saturday Assistant to help deliver a wide range of services and events to the local community. 

North Northamptonshire Council Libraries are community hubs and our Saturday Assistants are at the heart of the frontline assisting customers with accessing the Library systems, supporting events and dealing with a variety of enquiries. Providing digital support, our Saturday assistants will aid customers with their IT skills, enabling them to self-serve using the NNC website and other online services effectively and confidently.

What will you be doing?

1. Provide a first point of customer service for a diverse range of customers and enquiries.
2. Assist customers with self-service and other IT systems.
3. To support activities and services for the whole community including those for families with children
4. To be knowledgeable and effective in the use of a variety of IT systems to: Process all sales transactions accurately. Enrol new members. Be competent in the use of the Library Management System. Assist customers with the NNC website and other online services
5. Promote volunteering opportunities.
6. Ensure the Quality Standards for Presentation and Behaviour which contribute to the customer care ethos are met at all times

About you

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and people focused Saturday Assistant to join the team at Kettering Library.  Reporting to the Library Manager you will contribute to delivering an excellent experience to our customers in the local community.  This is a role which will require you to work frontline with customers and also with colleagues, volunteers, partner organisations.

As the successful candidate, you will bring:

• Experience of working as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills with ability communicate with a wide variety of people
• Confident IT Skills
• Enthusiasm with a flexible, positive attitude 

It would also be beneficial for you to have:

• Experience of customer service delivery
• Experience of supporting events

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)