Daytime carer/personal assistant

Independent Lives; Eastbourne; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

Independent Lives in Eastbourne is seeking a daytime carer/personal assistant to help with morning routines, midday calls and evening support at home. This part-time, permanent position is on-site in Eastbourne, with shifts throughout mornings, lunch and tea times.

The successful candidate will join a small team and receive full training. The role requires a chatty, compassionate and reliable woman with good English, able to respect privacy and maintain high safety standards.

Qualifications

• Role requires caring, compassionate and reliable individuals.
• The candidate should be a woman and able to work with a female client.
• Right to work in the UK and be willing to undertake required checks.

Responsibilities

• Medication prompting/administering.
• Personal grooming and daily care tasks.
• Moving and handling with equipment as needed.
• Carer will perform clinical tasks and administration.
• Housekeeping and cooking for the client.
• Dressing/undressing and bathroom assistance.
• Full training will be provided and catheter training considered.
• Shifts include morning calls, lunch calls and tea calls.

Skills

Medication prompting

Personal care

Moving & handling

Clinical tasks

Housekeeping

Cooking

Dressing assistance

Bathroom assistance

English reading

Tools

Hoist operation

Job description

Daytime carer/personal assistant ES540

Company: Independent Lives

Salary: from £15.25 an hour

Hours: Part-time

Location: Eastbourne, BN22 0UR

Working pattern: On-site

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 28 Sept 2026

Closing date: 28 Oct 2026

Summary

Daytime carer/personal assistant

Ref: ES540

Location: Eastbourne

Details

This role is to support a Woman

The candidate should be a woman

Drivers licence required: No

Employment status:

employed

Hours per week:

• Morning call - 1 hour 15 minutes
• Lunch call - 30 minutes
• Tea - 1 hour
• Monday to Sunday shifts available

Please apply with availability

Hourly pay rate:

£15.25

I am looking for a chatty, bubbly and compassionate woman carer to help me with my morning routine as well as lunch and tea calls, assistance getting upstairs and into bed (I use a hoist with full training provided).

I have a team of wonderful carers and am looking for another two or three carers to join, I live at home and often have visits from my children and grandchildren.

I am happy for smokers to apply as long as they don't smoke whilst on shift.

Duties include:

• Medication prompting/administering
• Personal grooming
• Moving and handling
• Clinical tasks
• Administration
• Housekeeping
• Cooking
• Dressing / undressing
• Bathroom assistance
• Full training will be provided
• Experience with catheter training would be good but I am willing to train the right carer

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
• Able to always work to high standards of health & safety
• Compassionate, kind, caring and chatty with the ability to not take life too seriously.
• Understanding towards an individual with a physical disability

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 the role is offered on a self-employed basis, you will be responsible for the cost of your own DBS check.

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.

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