Live-In Personal Assistant / Complex Care Support Worker

A Star Care Agency; Leeds; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Live-in accommodation provided

Approved travel expenses

Statutory employment entitlements

Job summary

A Star Care is recruiting a reliable Live-In Personal Assistant / Complex Care Support Worker to assist a university student with a complex physical disability to live independently in central Leeds. This rota-based live-in role includes planned daytime support and sleep-in cover with designated breaks.

Start date: 20 September 2026. Responsibilities include personal care, transfers with hoists, meal prep, and enabling participation in campus and community activities.

Qualifications

• Previous professional experience providing personal care and moving-and-handling support.
• Full, clean UK driving licence and confidence driving a large automatic vehicle.
• Able to work a live-in rota and travel or stay away when agreed.

Responsibilities

• Provide dignified personal care, including support with bathing, dressing and continence needs.
• Support transfers and mobility using hoisting equipment in line with care plan and training.
• Prepare meals, light domestic tasks and assist with daily routines.
• Enable access to university, social, sporting and community activities to promote independence.
• Drive an automatic wheelchair-accessible vehicle safely.
• Occasional travel and overnight stays in North Yorkshire and elsewhere in the UK; overseas travel may be offered by prior agreement.

Skills

Personal care

Moving & handling

Driving

Live-in work

Privacy & boundaries

Job description

A Star Care is recruiting a reliable and respectful Live-In Personal Assistant / Complex Care Support Worker to support a university student with a complex physical disability to live independently in central Leeds.

This is a rota-based live-in assignment. The successful worker will provide planned daytime support and agreed sleep-in cover while receiving appropriate breaks and rest periods.

Key responsibilities

• Provide dignified personal care, including support with bathing, dressing and continence needs.
• Support safe transfers and mobility using fixed and mobile hoisting equipment in line with the care plan and training.
• Prepare meals, complete light domestic tasks and assist with everyday routines.
• Enable access to university, social, sporting and community activities while promoting choice and independence.
• Drive a large automatic wheelchair-accessible vehicle safely.
• Accompany occasional travel and overnight stays in North Yorkshire and elsewhere in the UK; overseas travel may be offered by prior agreement.

Essential Requirements

• Previous professional experience providing personal care and moving-and-handling support.
• Full, clean UK driving licence and confidence driving a large automatic vehicle.
• Able to work a live-in rota and travel or stay away when agreed.
• Respectful of privacy, dignity, personal boundaries and independent decision-making.
• Right to work in the UK, satisfactory employment references and an Enhanced DBS check, or willingness to complete one.

Desirable experience

• Supporting adults with complex physical disabilities or reduced mobility.
• Live-in care, hoisting, wheelchair support or supporting a young adult in education.

Pay and benefits

• £1,000 gross per seven-day live-in placement week.
• Live-in accommodation is provided.
• Approved work-related travel expenses.
• Statutory employment entitlements apply.

Start date: 20 September 2026.

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