Pension scheme
Flexible working
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Service Assistant (Apprentice)

Salary 14.80 per hour
Location Cromwell Road, London
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This is a Fixed Term Contract, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Role

The National Art Library at the V&A is offering an exciting opportunity to work as a Service Assistant, supporting the Library both behind the scenes and interacting with users front of house.  You will develop skills in all aspects of librarianship and archiving.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working in both the National Art Library and with the archives held the V&A, learning the job by getting hands-on experience.

Learn about providing an excellent service and access to the library and archive collections by retrieving, delivering and returning to the shelves items requested by visitors to the Reading & Study Rooms at South Kensington and at V&A East Storehouse.

Learn about providing relevant information to library and archive users, supporting them to get the most out of the collections.

Learn how to manage and enter the data that provides access to the collections and archives through our catalogues

Learn how to care for the collections by creating digital copies, housing and storing them safely, auditing them and invigilating individual and groups of visitors in the Reading & Study Rooms

Learn how to engage and excite visitors onsite and remotely through blog posts, short talks, displays and other outreach activities

Develop familiarity with relevant legislation, especially Health & Safety & GDPR within he context of good practice and V&A policy

This apprenticeship offers 1 day per week away from work for specialist training and studying. The training will provide you with professional knowledge, skills and experience of the sector.

The V&A

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.  

Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:

  • To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
  • Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
  • Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact.
  • To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
  • Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
  • Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.

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Benefits

Generous pension scheme

29 days plus bank holidays

Flexible working​

Tickets to V&A exhibitions

Subsidised staff canteen

25% discount in V&A shops

Give as you earn scheme

Bicycle loan

Interest-free season ticket

Interest-free rental deposit loan

Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike

Wide range of training and professional development opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Staff diversity networks

ED&I at The V&A

At the V&A, we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for all and strive to go above and beyond public duty placed upon us by the Equality Act 2010.  As such, we are delighted to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A makes the following commitments to all applications:  

  • The Disability Confident Employer scheme offers guaranteed interviews – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities;  
  • Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.  
  • Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job.  
  • Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.  

In some circumstances, such as when we receive a high volume of applications that meet the minimum criteria, we may not be able to guarantee an interview under the scheme. In these cases, we will interview only the highest-scoring applicants, from both people with disabilities and people without a disability.

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