**Please note CVs will not be accepted.
Applications on official application form only will be considered** The Household Services Manager will have a key responsibility in managing, coordinating and developing the Household & Laundry hygiene standards in the Hospital.
The role will involve leading and supporting relevant teams, ensuring that standards of excellence are applied and maintained in all areas of Household & Laundry Services.
He / she will be responsible for ensuring that the HSE's best practice cleaning standards, auditing policies and procedures, hygiene training programmes and reporting systems are applied in all areas with particular emphasis on the elements of hygiene standards e.g.
waste management, sharps management, environment, linen management and hand hygiene.
He / she will ensure that SLGH is compliant with all aspects of national and international best practice standards relating to hygiene matters including but not limited to:
Ø National Standard for the Prevention and Control of Healthcare Associated Infection, HIQA 2009
Ø National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare, HIQA 2012
Ø The HSE National Cleaning Manual – Acute Hospitals, 2006
Ø National Guidelines for the Control of Legionellosis in Ireland, 2009
Ø Infection Prevention and Control Building Guidelines for Acute Hospitals in Ireland, SARI 2008
Ø Waste Management Act 2005
The Household Services Manager will support the General Services Manager in ensuring the effective and efficient functioning of the hospital's Household & Laundry service.
He/she will be required to drive change initiatives with the support of senior management in areas where services and systems need change and improvement.
· He / she will be expected to effectively promote and communicate hygiene matters and cooperate with multidisciplinary clinical and non-clinical teams and individuals in the pursuit of excellent hygiene standards.
He / she will be expected to conduct hygiene audits and report non-conformances particularly in the area of environmental hygiene.