Female Personal Assistant - KSYOR

Disability North; Wigginton; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Disability North in the United Kingdom is seeking compassionate personal assistants to support a young woman with complex care needs, helping with daily activities and community outings. You will assist with personal care, feeding, medications, transfers with a hoist, hydrotherapy support, and driving a wheelchair vehicle.

The role requires reliability, patience, teamwork and discretion; female applicants may be preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience providing personal care and support for individuals with disabilities.
• Reliable, punctual and able to work as part of a small team.
• Willingness to travel and to support hydrotherapy activities.

Responsibilities

• Social duties: keep in touch with friends and participate in day service activities.
• Personal care: bathing, feeding, medications, transfers with hoist.
• Domestic duties: cooking and maintaining a clean, tidy home.
• Other: driving the wheelchair-accessible vehicle.

Skills

Honest

Reliable

Punctual

Professional

Relationship-building

Job description

To assist with a variety of tasks which will enable the person who needs care and support to live their personal and social life according to their wishes and interests.

About the employer

Our daughter is a lively young woman who has complex care needs, she is a wheelchair user, she has a learning disability, she is nonverbal and due to her condition she has limited hand function. She has a great sense of humour. She can communicate using her communication book and has recently started to learn to use an eye gaze communication aid. Our daughter loves to be busy; she attends a day centre where she participates in various arts and crafts activities. She also attends regular hydrotherapy sessions. At home she loves to be given a massage, have a foot spa or her nails painted. We are looking to expand our small team of PAs to support her with all aspects of personal care and as she likes to keep busy the team of PAs will enable her to participate in suitable activities inside and outside our home.

Our daughter enjoys been active in the community going on regular trips to the garden centre, for walks to feed the animals and day trips to places such as the coast, National Trust. She loves to people watch, and to look at and feed the animals. We are looking for PAs who can nurture and support her in the community and bring enjoyment and happiness of life.

Main duties

Social duties

• Keep in touch and socialise with friends
• Support and participate in her day service with various workshop activities
• Activities inside my home such as massage, foot spa, sensory activities crafts, watch movies.
• Days out to see animals, to the coast, museums, National Trust etc

Personal care

• Support with bathing showering
• Teeth cleaning
• Dressing
• Thicken all drinks
• Support with feeding minced and moist food (hand over hand where possible)
• PEG feeding,
• Administering medication,
• Performing physiotherapy stretches
• Changing pads
• Standing transfers
• Transfers with hoist

Domestic duties

• Cooking and serving nutritious meals and snacks (minced and moist foods)
• Keeping areas clean and tidy as you have found them
• These duties may vary from day-to-day.

Other duties

• Driving our large wheelchair accessible vehicle (driver essential must be over 25 for insurance purposes)

Type of person that we are looking for

Values

• Honest
• Reliable
• Punctual
• Professional
• Ability to build good relationships based on trust and respect
• Adaptable
• Easy going
• Able to work as part of a team
• Positive
• Willingness to travel
• Has an understanding disability
• Has a good sense of humour
• Able to put a confidentiality policy into practice

Specific requirements

• Happy to go in water to support our daughter with her hydrotherapy.
• Good general health is important to be able to go out for walks pushing a wheelchair and support with physiotherapy exercise.

Other

• Due to the nature of this role including medical/personal care the potential employer will be considering female applicants only.
• A car driver with a clean driving licence who is able to drive a large wheelchair accessible vehicle is preferred but not essential.