JOB SPECIFICATION AND TERMS & CONDITIONS

Job Title & Grade
Household Janitorial Staff Specified Purpose Contract
Campaign Reference
RQ969
Closing Date
Friday 21st March 2025
Proposed Interview Date
Week of 31st March 2025
Taking Up Appointment
To be outlined at interview
Location of Post
Peamount Healthcare, Newcastle, Co. Dublin
Details of Service
Peamount Healthcare is an independent voluntary organisation that provides a range of high quality health and social care services. We help people return home after a serious illness, we provide safe and homely residential care for those who need it, and we support people to live as independently as possible in the community.
Reporting Relationship
Household Manager
Purpose of Post
Household staff are members of the ward team, working with other ward staff to assist the patients, and at all times ensuring smooth and safe functioning in all areas of the ward. All wards care for different categories of patients and variation of duties may occur, as all patients are individuals. The Clinical Nurse Manager or Nurse-in-Charge will give direction on these duties. In general the household staff duties entail kitchen duties and ward duties.
Eligibility Criteria Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will be expected to meet the following desirable criteria:

• Have a good general standard of education.
• PC literacy
• Good communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to work as part of a team and assist other members of staff
• Ability to work with little supervision, while meeting high performance standards.
• An interest and commitment to providing a clean, safe environment for patients in a health care environment

SKILLS, COMPETENCIES AND KNOWLEDGE

Janitorial Duties

• Maintain a clean hygienic ward.

This includes:
O Transporting and moving of linen and waste bins, skips.
O Terminal room cleaning.
O Using large scrubber drier machine to clean floors
O Emptying unit bins.
O Decontamination clean of bed frames.
O Detail cleaning of units.
O Wall washing on units / corridors.
O High dusting.
This job is flexible and other duties may arise on a day to day basis and are at the discretion of the Clinical Nurse Manager.

CAMPAIGN SPECIFIC SELECTION POST

A ranking and or short listing exercise may be carried out on the basis of information supplied in your CV. The criteria for ranking and or short listing are based on the requirements of the post as outlined in the eligibility criteria and skills, competencies and/or knowledge section of this job specification. Therefore, it is very important that you think about your experience in light of those requirements
Failure to include information regarding these requirements may result in you not being called forward to the next stage of the selection process
Those successful at the ranking stage of this process (where applied) will be placed on an order of merit and will be called to interview depending on the service needs of the organisation.
Code of Practice
Peamount will run this campaign in compliance with the Cod of Practice prepared by the Commission for Public Service Appointments (CPSA). The Code of Practice sets out how the core principles of probity, merit, equity and fairness might be applied on a principles basis. The Code also specifies the responsibilities placed on candidates, facilities for feedback to applicants on matters relating to their application when requested and outlines procedures in relation to requests for a review of the recruitment and selection process and review in relation to allegations of a breach of Code of Practice.
Codes of practice are published by the CPSA and are available on www.hse/ie/eng/staff/jobs
The reform programme outlined for the Health Service may impact on this role and as structures change the job description may be reviewed.

VALIDATION OF QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

Any credit given to a candidate at interview, in respect of claims to qualifications, training and experience is provisional and is subject to verification. The recommendation of the interview board is liable to revision if the claimed qualification, training or experience is not proven.
References
Peamount Healthcare will seek up to two written references from current and previous employers, educational institutions or any other organisations with which the candidate has been associated. The hospital also reserves the right to determine the merit, appropriateness and relevance of such references and referees.

KITCHEN DUTIES

There is one person full-time in the kitchen but the duties and responsibilities of household staff vary from ward to ward and would encompass the following.

• Taking order for Resident and Patient meals,
• Preparation and handing out of trays for bed bound patients.
• Setting of tables in dining-room for ambulant patients.
• Safe handling of food as it arrives to the ward.
• Maintaining correct temperature of food.
• Assisting in the serving of meals.
• Collection of used trays from wards.
• Washing dishes/food trays etc.
• Collecting and replacing jugs of water for patients use.
• Maintaining a clean hygiene kitchen at all times.
• Stock control, ordering/checking supplies with Clinical Nurse Manager/person-in-charge.

This job is flexible and other duties may arise on a day to day basis and are at the discretion of the Clinical Nurse Manager.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The above Job Specification is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him / her from time to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.

SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES

It is the responsibility of all staff to:
Participate and cooperate with legislative and regulatory requirements with regard to Quality, Risk and Safety.
Participate and cooperate with external agencies on safety initiatives as required.
Participate and cooperate with internal and external evaluations of hospital structures, services and processes as required, including but not limited to:
O National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare.
O National Standards for the Prevention and Control of Healthcare Associated Infections.
O HSE Standards and Recommended Practices for Healthcare Records Management
O Safety audits and other audits specified by the HSE or other regulatory authorities.
To initiate, support and implement quality improvement initiatives in their area which are in keeping with the hospitals continuous quality improvement programme.
It is the responsibility of all managers to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements for Quality, Safety and Risk within their area/department