Compassionate Personal Assistant & Companion (8 hrs/wk)

Direct Payment Employer; Carmarthen; Vor Ort; GBP 14.000 - 21.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Direct Payments Support service is seeking a Personal Assistant to support a gentleman living in Carmarthen with 8 hours per week split between Monday and Tuesday. The role involves personal care, meal preparation, shopping, and facilitating independence while ensuring safety in the home.

You will assist with prompting for personal care, medication, meals, appointments, and daily living tasks, including social activities and community engagement. A DBS check is required before starting.

Qualifikationen

• Caring, patient and friendly.
• Responsible, reliable and honest.
• Proactive and self-motivated with the ability to work on own initiative.
• Has good local knowledge of the area where the employer lives.
• Good time-keeping and flexibility around working patterns and duties as determined by the employer's requirements.
• Ability to keep simple records such as time recording.
• Good communicator able to talk to people on behalf of the employer when required.
• Able to develop long-term supportive and consistent relationships with employers.
• A full, clean driving licence and use of a car is likely to be required.
• Be prepared to have business use on your vehicle insurance to be able to use the vehicle within work hours.
• Be prepared to undergo training in order to best meet the employers need.

Aufgaben

• Supporting the employer with encouragement in gaining independence.
• Enabling the employer to interact socially in their community.
• Providing support to the employer whilst shopping and attending activities of interest.
• Supporting the employer to develop independent living skills.
• To provide companionship in the employer's home, including engaging in conversation with the employer and providing them with social interaction.
• Encouraging the employer to attend appointments.
• Ensuring the employer's safety at all times during your working hours.
• To carry out any other reasonable tasks that are requested by the employer during your working hours.
• To ensure compliance with Data Protection Act.
• Be mindful of safeguarding issues, and feedback any concerns to Carmarthenshire County Council immediately on (01267 228751).
• Be responsible for contacting the GP, Social Worker or Local Authority should the employer need medical assistance.

Kenntnisse

Caring

Patient

Friendly

Reliable

Proactive

Self-motivated

Time-keeping

Flexible

Good communicator

Local knowledge

Driving licence

Vehicle insurance

Jobbeschreibung

Direct Payments Support service is seeking a Personal Assistant to support a gentleman living in Carmarthen with 8 hours per week split between Monday and Tuesday. The role involves personal care, meal preparation, shopping, and facilitating independence while ensuring safety in the home.

You will assist with prompting for personal care, medication, meals, appointments, and daily living tasks, including social activities and community engagement. A DBS check is required before starting.