Senior Library Assistant

Job Number:

500842

• Maximum Term Part Time (8 months)
• $40.70 per hour + 12% super + leave loading (Level 2)
• 36.25 hours per fortnight
• Location: Caboolture with travel throughout the region

Join City of Moreton Bay as a Senior Library Assistant, and help shape and enhance our communities for today and tomorrow.

We're seeking a dynamic and customer-focused Senior Library Assistant to support both our Caboolture Library and Mobile Library service. This unique role offers a blend of branch-based responsibilities and regional outreach, delivering library services directly to our community. In this role, you will:

• Drive the Mobile Library vehicle across the region, following a fortnightly schedule of stops
• Support daily operations at Caboolture Library, assisting customers and maintaining a welcoming environment
• Promote, prepare, and deliver engaging library programs and activities
• Mentor and guide library assistants and volunteers
• Help customers navigate library resources, including digital technologies and online platforms

Our Caboolture Library is open 7 days/week, closed on public holidays. We operate at this location with a 4-week rotating roster, and the successful applicant will need to be available to work any 5 out of 7 days as part of the ordinary hours. We anticipate the roster for this role will include working 1 weekend (Sat & Sun) every 2 weeks, and shift times will be between 8:00am to 6:15pm.

About you

Are you passionate about providing exceptional service to customers? We want to hear from you

Bringing experience in a library setting, you will be well adept at delivering quality collections, programs, reference and reader advisory services. You will possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrating an ability to engage constructively and support customers to meet their needs.

As the library environment can be fast paced and heavily customer focused, you will be able to:

• make decisions and manage your time effectively
• uphold professional conduct and professionalism
• encourage a positive working environment
• easily navigate and use databases, internet and online resources, social media and digital technologies such as tablets and eReader devices

It is a requirement for applicants to hold/be willing to obtain a Working with Children Blue Card and HR class driver's licence prior to commencement.

Why City of Moreton Bay?

What you do with your life matters. It's the same with your career.

We're the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia's newest city, we're building something that's never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.

This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.

At City of Moreton Bay, we're focused on the vital work we do today. But we're also focused on the future. On what can be – for our city, our Council and your career.

Here's what you'll love about a career with us:

• See it. To build a city of the future, first, you have to see it. The polycentric city we're building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that's never been done before.
• Shape it. You'll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters – and it's yours to shape and own.
• Live it. Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don't live here, you'll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.

You'll also enjoy a range of other benefits:

• Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day fortnight.
• Advance your skills and career through our Study, Training And Research Scheme (STARS).
• Make your pay go further with salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
• Prioritise your health and wellbeing with discounted health insurance, free annual flu vaccinations and our Fitness Passport Program.
• Get support when you and your family need it most with our 24/7 confidential counselling service, leader support hotline and Mates in Construction program.

Ready for a career that matters?

Join City of Moreton Bay, and help shape our city of the future.

As part of the recruitment process, applicants will be required to undergo a National Criminal History Check.

To obtain further details please contact our Careers team at

City of Moreton Bay extends across the traditional lands of the Jinibara, Kabi Kabi, and Turrbal peoples, and we acknowledge and pay respects to our Traditional Custodians. We believe diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our people and communities, and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.

Your Future City.

See it. Shape it. Live It.

• Applications will close 11:55pm Tuesday, 28 October 2025

Advertised:

15 Oct 2025

Applications close:

28 Oct :55