General Maintenance Worker - Part Time - Listowel

General Maintenance Worker - Part Time - Listowel and North Kerry Area.

Location: Listowel NEWKD Office & North Kerry Area
Reporting: CSP Program Manager
Hours: 19.5 hours per week

Days: Monday - Friday.

Closing date: 13th July 2025

Job Description:

1. Local Development Organisation Name: NEWKD - Home Maintenance Service CSP

2. Job Title: General Maintenance Worker

3. Reporting to: Diana McCarthy, Manager

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.