Library associate Jobs in Toronto, ON

Specific Position Information : The successful applicant will be required to provide a current Vulnerable Sector Police Reference Check.

Hours per week and Schedule of Work (Hours and Schedule of work are subject to change in accordance with Article 19) :

35 hours per week. Evenings and Saturdays required.

This position requires the ability to visit or work from multiple sites across Toronto.

Location : Albion / Maria A. Shchuka / York Woods area (base location TBD)

Job Summary :

The Library Safety Specialist (LSS) works with other TPL staff and with guards to provide a safe and welcoming environment for all people using the Toronto Public Library, by engaging customers, explaining and enforcing rules of conduct, developing effective working relationships with library customers, ongoing monitoring of library spaces for appropriate customer behavior, and de escalating situations as needed.

The position focuses on helping all customers enjoy and use the library by compassionately assisting customers in understanding and complying with library rules and policies. In cases where customers are unable or unwilling to comply with library rules or policies, the LSS takes the lead in addressing and resolving rules of conduct violations and incidents, working with other library staff and guards, under the direction of in-charge staff.

The LSS also acts as a liaison with law enforcement, social service providers, and community groups providing referrals to service and assistance as appropriate. The LSS takes day-today direction from the Library Service Manager responsible for the branches where the LSS is assigned. All LSS staff formally report to the Manager, Welcoming Spaces as part of an integrated LSS team.

DUTIES :

• Using a trauma-informed approach, lead efforts to foster a welcoming and safe environment through ongoing interaction and relationship building with customers, staff, guards, local community agencies, social service providers and police.
• Engage customers and solicit cooperation in understanding and complying with Library rules of conduct. Refer customers to other library staff and sources of information in response to customer service requests.
• Lead efforts to prevent, mitigate and respond to incidents through appropriate means consistent with TPL policies and protocols, such as de-escalation, verbal communications, escorting customers from Library facility, and / or contacting police, social service providers, and / or other emergency services as needed. Support debriefing of incidents with other branch staff.
• Work with other members of the Library Safety Specialist team and Manager, Welcoming Environment to identify, communicate and share best practices across the TPL system.
• Circulate among public service areas inside and outside around the library, supporting staff and guards in monitoring areas to uphold library rules of conduct.
• Support the exclusion process under the direction of the Director, Branch Operations and Customer Experience. Prepare and deliver exclusion letters, in conjunction with security guards.
• Support other branch staff in ensuring incidents are documented in the Incident Reporting Management System (IRMS) on a timely basis. Monitor IRMS and identifies incident trends and appropriate interventions.
• Assist with providing training and onboarding of staff and guards regarding safety and security, incorporating and role modeling a trauma-informed approach.

QUALIFICATIONS :

Upon request, accommodation will be provided through all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

If you are invited to participate in the assessment process and require accommodations for the assessment, we ask that you provide your accommodation request as soon as reasonably possible.

TPL invites applications from all qualified individuals. The Library is committed to equal opportunity, diversity in the workplace, equity and reconciliation, and welcomes applications from Indigenous people, Black and racialized groups, people with disabilities, 2SLGBTQ+ people and women.

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