Personal Assistant

Description

Personal Assistant

Ref: DP8003

Location: Bognor Regis

Details

This role is to support a Woman

Drivers licence required: Yes

Own vehicle needed: Yes

Employment status:

Employed

Hours per week:

8 hours a week 4 days per week at 2 hours a day from 10am to 12pm

Hourly pay rate:

TBD

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We are looking for a friendly, reliable Personal Assistant to support a vibrant and sociable 25-year-old woman with learning difficulties, currently awaiting a second autism assessment.

She lives in supported living in a single room with shared amenities. She has a strong personality, a great sense of humour, and loves football (especially Manchester United and women’s football), The Masked Singer, Love Island, bingo, and trips to the pub.

The role includes prompting and supporting with personal care tasks such as hair washing, managing psoriasis, and bathing or showering. Domestic support includes changing bedding weekly, encouraging room tidiness, washing up, laundry, and helping with batch cooking.

The PA may also need to accompany her to medical or dental appointments, so access to a car is desirable.

This is a rewarding role for someone who enjoys helping others live independently and with dignity.

Duties include:

- Other relevant duties as required

- Personal Care Prompting: making sure she washes her hair, keeps on top of psoriasis with lotion when needed, bathing or showering etc.

- Domestic tasks: changing bedding weekly/assist making the bed, prompting to clean her room, washing up, doing laundry and drying etc

- Assist with batch cooking for the week

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

- Patient and possess excellent interpersonal skills

- Honest and cheerful

- 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.

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.

Please note: If you do not hear back within three weeks of applying, unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Ad ID: 5417084743