First and foremost - you like helping people. If you've got some IT skills - self-taught or not, that's ideal. We use self-service equipment, and our customers need your empathy and patience at all time.

Health & Safety is key to what we do. We'd like you to be the kind of person who sees things that need sorting and help sort them out.

You'll help with promotional activities - we generate income in all our libraries and value your ideas. Especially ones that can be rolled out across all Libraries.

Assisting customers to use the library catalogue and learn to use the full library offer.

Ensure seamless stock circulation and management, involving sorting, shelving, tidying, and handling reservations, fines, and membership activities.

Data drives us - you'll help us look at it in different ways, ensuring that we focus on the customer and staff to improve what we offer.

Our smaller libraries have less staff, so we'll ask you to help out with unlocking / locking up, and ask you to be a trusted keyholder., Due to the different areas where you may work, the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle. Expenses are paid in accordance with Essex County Council policy.

We welcome candidates with a diverse range of experiences and qualifications. Here's a sample - what we're interested in is if you are brilliant at the basics which include:

Confidence in speaking to our customers and signposting them to Library services, other parts of the Council services and our partner organisations.

Enjoy working within a team to make us as brilliant as possible.

We are currently recruiting a part time Customer Services Assistant based at our Chipping Ongar Library working 28 hours per week including Saturdays. The pro rata salary for this role is £17,666 per annum.