Central Coast Council

Library Assistant

Do you love providing exceptional customer service? Play a role is promoting continual learning culture on the Central Coast fostering community connections. Rewrite the future with us and apply for our Library Assistant role!

• People-focused role which allows you to actively engage in the community
• Permanent full-time role at Toukley Library
• Work 140 hours over 4 weeks, rostered over Monday to Saturday

About the role

Central Coast Council Libraries provide a diverse range of services and resources to the Central Coast Community as well as playing a key role in fostering community connection. The role of Library Assistant is responsible for providing efficient and customer friendly library services to library users including circulation and library maintenance duties.

We are looking for a team player who is also a customer focused individual and is passionate about providing exceptional services to our community. Your enthusiasm for innovative solutions and independent thinking are also critical for the delivery of effective library and Council services to the community. 

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

Key Duties 

• Perform the duties required within the branch such as loans, returns, renewals, reservations, membership enquiries and accurate shelving
• Provide technological assistance to customers and members of the community
• Prepare and deliver reader advisory and children's programs that support reading and literacy 
• Provide effective directional and basic reference advice and information and select appropriate borrowing materials for housebound patrons

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Current Working with Children Check 
• Demonstrated solid contemporary experience in a similar role combined with ongoing professional development

Our position description provides more information for you to learn more about this role.

Other important information

• The salary range for this position ranges between $57.1k to $68.6k pa (dependent on skills and experience) plus 11.5% superannuation 
• We have a permanent full-time role available. 
• This role will be able to access a 19 day month, working 140 hours over a 4 week period. 
• This role is located at the Toukley Library. 

Council may create an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent or temporary vacancies.

Extra benefits

At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check-ups. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.

Other extras include:

• Long service leave after 5 years of continuous service
• Free flu vaccination program
• Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
• Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
• We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
• Novated leasing partnerships. 

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia. 

How to apply

We have put together some additional resources to help you apply for a role at Central Coast Council.

To lodge your application, please follow these steps:

1. Answer the on-line questions shown below.
2. Attach your resume 
3. Attach your qualifications and licences.

Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.

If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing recruit@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au to discuss what reasonable adjustments you may need. If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call 133 677 or Speak & Listen 1300 555 727.

Applicants who are selected for interview will be contacted by phone or e-mail. For further instructions please click here. 

You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.  

If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/libraries/our-branches or ask at the enquiry counter.

We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies.