Meet the team

Helen Else is a chartered librarian with a background in education. She joined the Library & Knowledge Services team in May 2021.

It is perhaps best to think of librarians as Knowledge and Information Professionals. Beyond the stamping of books and supply of journal articles, our role is to support NHS staff with their information needs and to support knowledge mobilisation across the organisation.

With this in mind, Helen’s interests include:

• Ensuring staff have access to the right knowledge and evidence, at the right time and the right place by embedding Library and Knowledge Services staff within clinical and management teams.
• Conducting high-quality, professional evidence searches, with accompanying synthesis and summary reports; and supporting others to develop their evidence searching skills.
• Collaborative, multi-agency bid writing, alongside with clinical and transformation leads.
• Supporting staff through their journey towards publication, from conference posters to case studies, to journal articles publishing research findings.
• Tailoring Library and Knowledge Services to meet the needs of the organisation, its staff and students is vital to high-quality provision. Examples include developing responsive training and facilitating journal clubs for clinical and management staff.

Having previously worked as a Portuguese interpreter supporting patients at Royal Papworth Hospital, Karin Tahir joined the Library Services team in May 2019 as Libray and Knowledge Services Adminstrator. Karin is an experienced teacher and language tutor and runs some of our training sessions.

Karin is on the second year of her Masters in Library and Information Management.

Marie Resseguier came into post in April 2019. Marie brings a wealth of experience to the Library Services team having previously developed an electronic resources collection for a sixth form college. Currently, Marie is developing the Library Service Outreach programme.

Fiona joined the Library Services team in October 2023. Fiona is a professionally qualified librarian with over 20 years experience working in both further education and the public library sector.

Rebecca Rowe is a professionally qualified Chartered Librarian. She joined the Trust in 2015 after obtaining her postgraduate qualification in Librarianship. In 2017, she was awarded a PGCert in Systematic Reviews in Health and she also has experience as a translator, proofreader and teacher of English as foreign language. 

Rebecca left her permanent role as Specialist Clinical Outreach Librarian and is now working as part of Bank when needed to support research projects and run specific training sessions.