Relief Library & Information Assistant

Job Description

Relief Library and Information Assistant | 11310 | Casual Contract, Variable hours | £13.92 per hour (Scale D) | Cromer / Sheringham / Mundesley Cluster

Are you outgoing? Do you love helping people? Are you enthusiastic about your local community? 

Norfolk Library & Information Service has just the job for you! 

From babies to business start-ups, from families to young people, adults and older people, our Library Service is committed to supporting everyone in Norfolk to read for pleasure and to access information and a wide range of social activities that will help them live healthy, fulfilling, and independent lives. 

If you are confident with IT, enjoy engaging with people of all ages and backgrounds and LOVE a good book, Cromer, Sheringham and Mundesley Libraries need you! 

The role will involve some time when you work on your own, but you will receive plenty of training for this and every other aspect of this interesting and rewarding role. 

The need to be flexible and available at short notice is essential as your role will be to cover sickness absence as well as staff holidays and training. This post is on a casual basis with no guaranteed weekly hours, but will include evenings, weekends, and school holidays.  

Before you apply, we recommend reading the fullJob description and person specificationto help you demonstrate how you meet the criteria. You can also find information on our Terms and Conditionshere.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? See and apply for all internal and external vacancies via myOracle using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

Redeployment closing date: 7 October 2026 23:59

All other applicants closing date: 14 October 2026 23:59

About us

We have miles of beautiful coastline and our unique Broads, thriving market towns and a city with a proud cultural heritage.  Our economy is growing and driven by innovation in a number of sectors, including energy and food.  We also have ambitious plans for new housing and a building programme for schools across Norfolk.  Our county a great place to live, work and visit, and is an excellent environment for businesses to start, grow and innovate.
We are the main local authority for Norfolk providing services countywide to more than 850,000 Norfolk residents. We take the lead in critical policy areas, working with 84 elected Members responsible for the strategic local government services in the county.

We provide a high quality service through involving people who use our services to shape and comment on them and by promoting efficiency and innovation.

We work in partnership with local businesses, voluntary organisations and other local authorities such as District and Parish Councils to provide the people of Norfolk with excellent services.