Female Senior Personal Care Assistant

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

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Colchester is seeking a personal assistant for part-time support to a friendly individual with a brain injury. Responsibilities include assisting with meal preparation, medication reminders, and household chores. The ideal candidate should be patient, trustworthy, and able to provide empathetic support. This role requires working on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, totaling 4-5 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Be patient, supportive, and caring.
• Maintain confidentiality and respect privacy.
• Follow instructions accurately.

Responsibilities

• Support with meal preparation and eating.
• Assist with household chores.
• Help with medication reminders.
• Encourage socialisation and activities.
• Manage paperwork and correspondence.

Skills

Honesty

Reliability

Trustworthiness

Punctuality

Empathy

Good listening skills

Supportive nature

Job description

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To apply, follow the link provided and fill out an application form or forward your CV to [e-mail] (Please include the job reference number: ESX17255SL1 to your email if submitting via email).

About the Employer

A personal assistant is required for a friendly middle aged lady with a brain injury. This position would be for a Tuesday and Thursday each week from around 4pm-6pm. The client is ideally looking for someone with patience and understanding and some prior caring experience. Tasks would include cooking the evening meal and then tidying up, helping with shopping lists and prompting to keep on top of prescriptions. Very occasionally some help answering emails might be needed. Also in the household is the ladies son who has moderate autism and global developmental delay so support is sometimes needed in helping the client support him.

Employer Disability and Health Conditions

• Acquired Brain Injury
• Hearing
• Cognitive / Learning
• Mental Health
• A traumatic brain injury that has left some loss of hearing, balance difficulties, chronic fatigue and PTSD. Also some difficulties with organising and prioritising.

Other Relevant Information

• The individual keeps pets in the home: Two cats.

About the Role

Duties and Responsibilities

• 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.
• Support and/or prompt to attend appointments as necessary, e.g. hospital/doctors.
• Support with food shopping.
• Assist and encourage socialisation, participating in activities.
• Develop a good and trusting one to one working relationship.
• Support with managing paperwork & correspondence.
• Support with gardening.

The individual's 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).

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 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.
• Have a lively personality.

When you are Required

Hours per week: 4 - 5

• Tuesday, 4pm - 6pm
• Thursday, 4pm - 6pm