Job Descriptions
Reports/Responsible To:
Team Leader/Deputy Team Leader
Qualifications/Experience/Skills:
- Candidates must have received
a good general education.
- A certificate in
Food Hygiene /HACCP for Food Handlers training is an advantage. Alternatively a
commitment to completing a Food Hygiene /HACCP for Food Handlers
training course is required.
- Candidates must
have adequate training and experience to enable him/her to carry out
satisfactorily the duties of the post together with an appreciation of the
needs of persons with an intellectual disability.
- Candidates must be able to
demonstrate domestic, household, food preparation and cooking skills.
Working Hours:
58 hours a fortnight based on a 7 day duty roster. Additional locum hours will be available
occasionally to cover the hours of other staff on annual leave. Successful
candidates may on an occasion, be required to work weekends, in order to meet
service demands. The Brothers of Charity
model of service is based on Personal Outcome Measures requiring employees to
be flexible in their working hours to provide a quality service delivery for
each individual.
Annual Leave:
22 days pro rata per annum, i.e. 8.46 hours per 100 hours worked.
Remuneration:
Department of Health Domestic salary scale - €29,942 x 8 increments
- €35,901 pro rata per annum.
Tenure:
This post is Permanent, part-time and pensionable.
Probation:
A probationary period of nine months from the date of appointment
applies to the post. The
Employment may be terminated at any time during the probationary
period should the employer
find that the appointee is unsuitable to continue employment. The probation period may be
extended at the Employer’s discretion.
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Brothers of Charity model of service is based on Personal
Outcome Measures requiring employees to be flexible in their approach and
working hours to provide a quality service delivery for each individual.
Specific Conditions
- Staff must have a positive
attitude towards working with persons with an intellectual disability and
help to ensure that they lead as normal and enjoyable a life as possible.
- Staff must treat each person
with an intellectual disability as an individual and at all times
acknowledge and respect the rights and personal dignity of the person with
an intellectual disability.
- Staff are required to
establish and maintain relationships with People Supported by the Services
that are based on respect and equality and that promote their
independence.
Main duties and functions:
- Cook, Prepare, and serve
meals as required.
- Wash-up after meals leaving
the kitchen neat and tidy.
- Ensure that the kitchen and
utility areas are kept to a high standard of hygiene at all times and to
work under the direction of the Team Leader.
- Ensure that food and cleaning
materials are stored in accordance with proper health and hygiene
standards as appropriate.
- Undertake housekeeping duties
as required, including, cleaning and washing of floors, windows, walls,
toilets, bathrooms, furniture and equipment.
- Undertaking dusting of areas
as required, and cleaning of windows as required.
- Ensure microwaves, fridges;
ovens etc are cleaned as necessary.
- Ensure all fabrics such as
curtains and blinds are hanging appropriately, and laundered as needed.
- Sort soiled linen for the
laundry and operate internal laundry equipment as necessary.
- Fold, iron, and put away
laundry.
- Exercise care, attention and
vigilance towards equipment and property.
- Ensure confidentiality is
maintained in all matters.
- Operate within the Policies
and Procedures of the Service in all aspects of your work.
- Promote dignity at work and
show respect to People Supported by the Services, colleagues and
stakeholders in the course of duty.
- Be responsible for the
purchase of all consumable goods and other goods, e.g. cleaning and
washing materials, and record purchases as required.
- Attend and participate in
training as required by the service
- Complete daily logs as
required and requested
- Be an active participant in
the Team Based Performance Process and take on roles that are assigned to
you.
- Comply with all national
regulations and standards as set down by HIQA.
- Be aware of and become
familiar with fire drill procedures within the centre i.e. fire detection,
evacuation and fire fighting. To be
conscious of Health & Safety matters in the workplace and, in
particular, to comply with employees’ obligations as set out under Section
9 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005. Ensure that the procedures set out in
the Safety Statement are implemented at all times.
- Ensure that all
accidents/incidents to People Supported by the Services, staff and
visitors are reported in accordance with Service policy and the Accident
and Incident Database is updated to reflect any incidents.
- As the duties and
responsibilities of any post in the Services are likely to change with the
ongoing needs of the People Supported by the Services, i.e. age, level of
disability, etc, staff are expected to have a high level of flexibility,
and a willingness and an ability to develop new approaches to their work
as the People Supported by the Services’ needs demand.
- Perform such other duties
appropriate to the post as may be assigned to him/her by the Team
Leader/Deputy. All duties must be
carried out in person at all times.
