Personal Assistant

Description

Personal Assistant

Ref: DP1468

Location: Ferring

This role is to support a Woman

The candidate should be a woman*

Drivers licence required: Yes

Employment status: employed

Hours per week:

Monday night 20.15- 8.30am

Tuesday 17.30-20.30 + night 20.15 -9.15am

Wednesday night 21.15 - 9 am

Friday night 20.15-10.15 am

Additional hours will become available due double ups, covering holiday, sickness and during the school holidays

Hours can be shared by more than 1 PA

Hourly pay rate:

£14.75ph during the week and £15.75ph at the weekend.

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I am a 21 year old young lady looking for support within my home and within the community.

I need support with accessing Social and Leisure activities.

I may require support and accompaniment to medical or other appointments.

I am bubbly and enjoy all aspects of life. I enjoy shopping, going to the cinema, going out for dinner, F1 and meeting up with friends.

Duties include:

- Medication prompting/administering

- Eating and drinking assistance

- Moving and handling

- Other relevant duties as required

- Shopping

- Transportation

- Dressing / undressing

- Bathroom assistance

- Full assistance with showering, drying, hair washing/ brushing as required

- Help to hoist into and out of bath/shower.

- Assistance with applying cream

- Dressing and undressing/ helping with buttons and fastenings

- Helping with other aspects of personal care as required

- Getting in and out of the wheelchair using hoist

- Physiotherapy exercise

- Accompanying and assisting employer on shopping trips when required

- Accompany employer when accessing social and leisure activities, including to swimming and the gym.

- Accompanying employer to doctors/hospital appointments when required

- Accompanying when clothes-buying, including help with un/dressing and lifting clothes on/off the rails.

- Occasional longer journeys

- Driving and accompanying to social events such as the cinema, college, evening meetings etc.

- Accompanying on trips out e.g. to the garden centre, cinema, craft fairs, local visits, out shopping for fun, attending social events, attending therapies, restaurants and to see family.

- Accompanying to social meetings eg friends, family

The above duties will involve driving the employer in the PA’s car, clamping wheelchair into car, pushing the employer’s wheelchair when out/assisting with driving electric wheelchair.

Whilst on duty at the employer’s home watching TV and assisting with craft activities

Lifting the folding wheelchair in/out of car, pushing the employer’s manual wheelchair when out of not using electric wheelchair

Candidate qualities:

- Respectful of the employer's privacy and confidentiality

- Reliable with good timekeeping

- Able to both follow instructions and work on own initiative

- Hygienic, tidy and well organised

- Fit and healthy to undertake the required duties

- Patient and possess excellent interpersonal skills

- Honest and cheerful

- Creative

- Able to speak and read English to a reasonable standard

- Must be comfortable with pets

- Able to always work to high standards of health & safety

Notes:

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK and be willing to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check if required.

Please note, if you are successful in your application for this position, you will be either engaged directly or employed by the individual employer and not by Independent Lives. The role may be offered on an employed or self-employed basis, depending on the suitability and agreement with the employer. If the role is employed, you will be entitled to holiday pay and issued an employment contract.

*Exemption for gender is claimed under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9

Ad ID: 5417404509