Dan Livesey is the Library and Knowledge Service Manager at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. He has a background in public libraries, having worked as a Library Assistant and Librarian. He discusses how skills developed during a role running rhymetime sessions at a public library, such as outreach, communication, leadership, and service development, prepared him for his current career in the NHS, which requires skills in working with challenging customers, organizational flexibility, and promotion. He encourages those thinking of moving sectors to identify transferable skills, get involved in professional networks, and become reflective practitioners.

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Why Rhymetime helped
prepare me for a career in the
NHS
Dan Livesey, Knowledge Service
Manager, Greater Manchester Mental
Health NHS Foundation Trust

3. Why Rhymetime helped prepare me for a
career in the NHS:
Changing Sectors and Transferable Skills
Dan Livesey
CILIP Conference, Manchester
6th July 2017

4. Background
• Dan Livesey BA (Hons) MA MCLIP (Revalidated 2017)
• Manchester Metropolitan University in 2009
• Placement in a public library in Wilmslow, Cheshire
• Appointed Library Assistant 2009
• Appointed Librarian 2011
• Chartership in 2013
• Applied for Library Service Manager post at Manchester
Mental Health and Social Care Trust in 2014

5. Currently
• Library and Knowledge Service Manager
• Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
• CILIP Mentor
• Chartered Member, working towards Fellowship
• Revalidated in 2015, 2017.
• NW Member Network Candidate Support Officer

6. My current Role
• Library and Knowledge Service
Manager
• Greater Manchester Mental
Health NHS Foundation Trust
(GMMH)
• GMMH has two library sites
• Team of 6
• Specialist substance misuse and
public health collections

7. Changing Sectors: Challenging Structures

8. Changing Sectors: Who are our users?

9. Changing Sectors: a tale of two cities

10. Changing Sectors: Resources

11. What are Transferable Skills?

12. Why are Transferable Skills important?
•New roles and career progression
•Prepared for challenges
•Broaden skill sets
•Networking
•Helping you to identify your key strengths

13. Why did Rhymetime helped prepare me for a
career in the NHS?

14. Why did Rhymetime help prepare me for a career
in the NHS?
• Outreach • Communication
• Leadership • Evaluation
• Improvisation • Service development
• Challenging customers • Promotion
• Organisational • Flexibility

15. Thinking of Moving Sectors?
• New Library Professionals Network (NLPN)
• PKSB
• Get involved in CILIP Special Interest Groups
• Remember your contacts
• Become a reflective practitioner
• Twitter chats: #uklibchat
• Identify your transferable skills
• Find out about networks.

16. Some Reading
• Kate Arnold, Transferable Skills and Breaking Down Sectoral
Barriers, CILIP Update, May 2017 (p.21)
• Mobeena Khan, Making a Change- Moving from One Sector
to Another, CILIP Update, May 2017 (p.48)
• Wendy Foster, Changing Sectors- We Have the Knowledge,
Networks and Skills, CILIP Update, June 2017 (p.28)
• Cath Harris, Changing sectors – From law to the NHS,
Clinical Librarians Blog, February 2015,
https://lihnnclinicallibs.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/case-
study-changing-sectors-from-law-to-the-nhs-by-cath-harris/

17. Any Questions?