Clinical LibrarianNHS

Job summary

NHS Band 6 Salary: £39,987 - £48,117 per annum

Hours Per Week: Full-time, 37.5 hrs

Contract Type: Permanent

Are you passionate about helping healthcare professionals use the best available evidence to improve patient care?

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive Clinical Librarian to join our Knowledge and Library Services team. This exciting role provides an embedded evidence and knowledge service across Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and Isle of Wight NHS Trust, supporting clinicians, nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, educators, and managers.

As a Clinical Librarian, you will work directly with clinical teams to support evidence-based practice, patient safety, quality improvement, research, and service development. You will provide expert literature searching, critical appraisal, evidence summaries, current awareness services, training, and knowledge mobilisation activities that help healthcare professionals make informed decisions at the point of care.

This is an excellent opportunity for an information professional with experience in healthcare, academic, or specialist library services who enjoys building relationships, delivering training, and translating evidence into practical improvements for patient care.

Job description

What you'll do

• Deliver an embedded Clinical Librarian service to clinical specialties and multidisciplinary teams.
• Provide expert literature searching, evidence synthesis, rapid reviews, and critical appraisal support.
• Attend clinical meetings, ward rounds, governance forums, audits, and quality improvement activities.
• Design and deliver training on information skills, healthcare databases, evidence-based practice, and critical appraisal.
• Support the development of clinical guidelines, policies, research projects, and service improvement initiatives.
• Promote the effective use of evidence and knowledge resources across the Trusts

This role offers the opportunity to make a direct contribution to patient care and organisational improvement by ensuring staff have rapid access to high-quality evidence when it matters most.

For full job details and person specification please refer to attached Job Description.

About us

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.