System Lead Librarian in Somerset, New Jersey at RWJBarnabas Health

Job Title: Medical Librarian

Location: SBC Corporation

Department Name: Medical Staff

Req #: 0000266556

Status: Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $69,100.00 - $86,500.00 per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

A Typical Day

The System Lead Librarian provides operational leadership and expertise in the delivery of medical library, health sciences information, evidence-based practice, research, and knowledge management services across the academic health system.This position serves as a strategic information partner to physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, researchers, faculty, students, residents and fellows, clinical leaders, administrators, and other healthcare professionals.The System Lead Librarian ensures that users have timely access to authoritative, evidence-based information necessary to support clinical care, education, research, quality improvement, patient safety, and organizational decision-making.The System Lead Librarian develops and manages electronic and print information resources; provides advanced literature searching and evidence retrieval; supports systematic and scoping reviews; provides education and information-literacy instruction; promotes evidence-based practice; and collaborates with academic, clinical, research, information technology, informatics, and administrative leaders.The position also serves as a subject-matter expert regarding emerging information technologies, artificial intelligence, scholarly communication, research databases, knowledge resources, and evolving methods for delivering trusted information at the point of need.The role, reporting through RWJBH System Medical Affairs, partners with hospital librarians to ensure equitable access to evidence-based information, efficient resource utilization, and high-quality library services.

• Conducts literature searches and provides information services to clinicians, researchers, educators, students and leaders to support evidence-based clinical practice and organizational decision making in a timely fashion

• Develop customized information services for departments, clinical programs, centers of excellence, and specialty practice and informs of newly published evidence and clinical information via targeted dissemination

• Provides guidance regarding research databases, bibliographic management tools, and emerging research technologies and collaborating with research teams on grant development and other scholarly activities as appropriate

• Partners with medical education, nursing education, graduate medical education, and academic leadership to incorporate information literacy into curricula and professional development

• Promotes the library s role as an essential partner in the health system s academic and research mission through the provision of orientation and training regarding library resources and services and development of online tutorials, guides, educational materials and other learning resources

• Assess resource utilization, cost effectiveness, user needs, and emerging cliniting, and licensing electronic and print information resources

• Collaborates with Information Technology and clinical informatics teams to identify opportunities to integrate library resources into the electronic health record, intranet, clinical workflows, learning management systems and other enterprise platforms to facilitate access to trusted information at the point of care

• Leads the standardization of library workflows, policies, procedures, service expectations, and operational practices across system library locations to promote consistency, efficiency, equitable access, and seamless user experience

• Develops and implements processes for workload balancing, resource allocation, and cross-coverage among system library staff and resources to ensure continuity of service, optimize available expertise, and appropriately respond to fluctuations in demand across the health system

• Develops performance measures and reports demonstrating the value of medical library services to the health system and supporting the development of enterprise knowledge management strategies

• Maintains awareness of regulatory, accreditation and professional requirements and promotes compliance with applicable copyright, licensing, intellectual property and information-use requirements

To Be Considered

Education Required:

• Masters degree in library and information services (MLIS, MLS, or equivalent) from an ALA-accredited program

Experience Required:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in a medical, health sciences, academic, research, or hospital library environment
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and change management experience
• Experience supporting evidence-based medicine, graduate medical education, and clinical research
• Strong communication, organizational, and analytical skills

Experience Preferred:

• Experience within an academic medical center or integrated academic health system
• Experience with enterprise electronic resource management, vendor negotiations, and library analytics
• Membership in the Medical Library Association or Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP) credential or demonstrated progress towards AHIP
• Experience evaluating or implementing AI and emerging information technologies
• Flexibility to help system libraries evolve with the rapidly changing landscape of library sciences

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.