General Maintenance Worker - Part Time - Listowel and North Kerry Area.
Location: Listowel NEWKD Office & North Kerry AreaReporting: CSP Program Manager/Reception SupervisorHours: 19.5 hours per week
Days: Monday - Friday.
Closing date: 9th Feb 2025
Job Description:
1. Local Development Organisation Name: NEWKD - Home Maintenance Service CSP
2. Job Title: General Maintenance Worker
3. Reporting to: Ed O’ Connor/ Diana McCarthy, Managers
4. Salary and Benefits: NMW €13.50 per hour
5. Job Purpose: Provision of a general maintenance service to a targeted client base in North Kerry
6. Base: Listowel & North Kerry area
7. Contract: (Part-time Contract – subject to 6 month probation) 19.5 - hrs/Week, Mon, Tue, Wed
8. Major Areas of responsibility:
To carry out an assessment of the application for maintenance work from the client
General maintenance and small repair work, to include painting, hedge cutting, power-washing and gardening to the homes of Older People in the North Kerry area.
Provision of other services to be delivered based on future identified needs of client base
To carry out any functions which may arise in relation to any or all of the above.
Participate in relevant training and information session.
Person Specification:
The applicant will be a highly motivated and efficient person with relevant experience in General Maintenance work.
Specific requirements of the position will include:
Knowledge and experience of general maintenance work around the home
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to work on own initiative and consult where appropriate
Knowledge on issues that face Older People in the area
Commitment to the ethos of the project
Flexibility and adaptability
Driving License & own transport desirable but not essential
Garda Clearance will apply
Subject to eligibility criteria below
Eligibility Criteria:
• People who are in the workforce but unemployed and seeking to return to work i.e., people who are in receipt of Jobseeker’s Benefit (JB), Jobseekers Allowance (JA); people who are signing for credits
• Qualified Adults (Adult dependants of those in receipt of social welfare payment)
• People with Disabilities (PWD) i.e. in receipt of Disability Allowance, Blind Pension, Partial Capacity Benefit, or other disability benefit
• Ex-prisoners or people with a criminal conviction and in contact with the Probation Service
• Migrants • Refugees • Asylum Seekers • Irish Travellers • Roma
• People coming from a labour activation scheme i.e. Community Employment, TUS, or RSS placements
• One Parent Families (people who parent alone without sufficient resources and are in receipt of social welfare payments)
• People who are deserted, separated, divorced or widowed (People in receipt of Widow/er’s non-contributory pension, surviving Civil Partner’s non-contributory pension, or deserted Wives allowance/benefit)
• Carers (people in receipt of Carers Allowance/Benefit who want to return to the workforce)
• People who are homeless
• Stabilised and recovering drug misusers
• Ukrainians- displaced by the war
NEWKD is an equal opportunity employer that facilitates diversity and inclusion in the workplace.