Female Personal Care Assistant

Penderels Trust; Market Rasen; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A social care provider in the UK is looking for dedicated support staff to assist a lady with mental health needs. The role involves personal care, meal preparation, and encouraging social activities. Ideal candidates will be honest, reliable, and empathetic, with a flexible approach to hours. A car driver with business insurance is required. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in someone’s life.

Qualifications

• Be patient, supportive, and caring.
• Have a genuine interest in supporting people with a disability/illness.
• Be self-motivated and willing to get involved.

Responsibilities

• Support with personal care including toileting and dressing.
• Assist with cooking and meal preparation.
• Prompt the individual to take medication.
• Encourage socialization and participation in activities.

Skills

Reliability

Honesty

Trustworthiness

Punctuality

Confidentiality

Empathy

Listening skills

Initiative

Job description

Overview

Interested in working in social care? Read on to find out how you can get involved.

I am a 59 year old lady with Mental health needs that needs support with meals (cooking a lunch and preparing a salad for my tea), taking medication, some personal care and social outings.

About the Role

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support and/or prompt with personal care. This may include toileting, showering/bathing, getting in and out of bed, getting dressed.
• Support and/or prompt with cooking/meal preparation and eating meals/drinks.
• Support and/or prompt the individual to take medication.
• Assist with household chores and general homemaking.
• Assist and encourage socialisation, participating in activities.
• Develop a good and trusting one to one working relationship.

The individuals needs may vary from day to day and your tasks may reflect this. You could be required to perform other duties as reasonably required.

You have a responsibility as an employee to report all accidents to the employer immediately. You have a duty to report defects and / or hazards which may give rise to an accident. You are to ensure the safety of the individual at all times.

Due to the nature of the work for which you are applying, this post is subject to a satisfactory DBS disclosure (costs will be covered).

Transport Requirement

• Car driver and car owner – must have business insurance.

Required Skills

• Be honest, reliable, trustworthy and punctual.
• Maintain confidentiality and respect privacy, including the prohibited use of social media in relation to the job role.
• To be able to work on own initiative.
• To be able to follow instructions accurately.
• Be patient, supportive and caring.
• Have good listening skills and be able to provide non-judgemental emotional support.
• Be empathetic.
• Previous caring experience is not essential, however you should have a genuine interest in supporting people with a disability/illness to achieve their goals.
• Be self-motivated with a willingness to get involved.

Hours and Availability

Hours per week: leave cover for any day of the week and some hours available soon for weekends as PA will be off following an operation.

Dates and times are flexible and can be discussed at interview.