Senior Health Librairies Consultant - Baptist Health System

Location: USA - FL - Jacksonville

Baptist Health Jacksonville is seeking a Senior Health Libraries Consultant. Founded in 1955, Baptist Health is North Florida’s most comprehensive healthcare system and the area’s only non-profit, mission-driven, locally governed healthcare provider.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees the daily operations for library services
• Performs comprehensive literature searches
• Develops and maintains Library collections
• Fills interlibrary loan requests and maintains Docline
• Establishes the scope and extent of library programs and services to be offered, as well as implementation
• Develops and maintains knowledge-based systems and services
• Develops, recommends, and monitors library budget
• Collaborates to continuously improve delivery of health care information
• Provides reference services
• Represents the Health Science Library at committee meetings
• Responsible for outreach services for an expanded regional health system
• Manages relationships with vendors
• Provides technical support services for electronic resources
• Manages library webpage and/or partners closely with information services to facilitate online library presence
• Creates and conducts instructional sessions on library services, database search skills, evidence-based practice, etc
• Develops strategic plans for library services
• Local travel required

Education:

• Master’s Degree in Library or Information Science from an A.L.A. accredited program
• Degree Preferred: Doctorate of Arts/Science

Qualifications:

• 3-5 Years Experience working in comprehensive medical library services (this may be adjustable to preferred qualifications, depending)
• Proven customer service and organizational skills
• High level of interpersonal and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively
• Comprehensive knowledge of library reference sources and strong biomedical database searching skills (MEDLINE/PubMed, CINAHL)
• Experience designing and teaching library instruction classes

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of evidence-based practice
• Academy of Health Information Professionals credentials
• Heath sciences experience or undergraduate degree in life or health sciences
• Knowledge of DOCLINE and interlibrary loan
• Experience maintaining and editing library webpages
• Experience with health sciences collection development
• Experience designing supportive and self-instruction materials

Application instructions:

For immediate consideration, please email your resume to [email protected] or click the link below to apply:

https://www.baptistjax.com/about-us/careers/job-listings/senior-health-libraries-consultant-baptist-jacksonville-28801