LJ03/21/KE Personal Assistant / Care Assistant

Personal Budgets Support Service; Kettering; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A Personal Support Service in Kettering seeks a Personal Assistant to assist a young man with ASD. The role involves providing support in accessing the community, engaging in hobbies and daily tasks. Ideal candidates will be warm, reliable, and proactive, with a desire to enrich the client's life. Flexible working hours include evenings and weekends.

Qualifications

• Experience or willingness to support individuals with disabilities.
• Positive and proactive attitude.
• Full UK driving license preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Support with general tasks in the home.
• Encourage involvement in the local community.
• Assist with shopping trips and recreational activities.

Skills

Motivation

Empathy

Reliability

Engagement

Proactivity

Job description

Overview

Position: Personal Assistant / Care Assistant

Job reference: LJ03/21/KE

Hours: 6 hours per week term time (38 weeks per year) and 10 hours per week non term time (14 weeks per year).

Hours to be worked flexibly, including a mixture of weekends and weekdays.

Also, one regular evening per month from approximately 7.00pm to 10.00pm.

The above will all be discussed/agreed at interview.

Rate: £12.21 per hour

Area: Kettering (NN16 Area)

About the employer

The Employer is a young man, living at home with his family. The Employer is blind and uses a cane when out walking and is on the ASD spectrum. He is seeking a pro-active PA able to support him to access the community and widen both his independence skills and social activities outside of the home.

Main duties

• Support with general tasks within the home to build confidence in independent living.
• Support to ensure involvement in his local community.
• Support to build confidence in accessing the community generally, both walking and on public transport.
• Support with visits to live music venues.
• Support with continuing his hobbies, centred around his love of music.
• Visits to recreation venues, i.e. a bowling alley, a restaurant, a coffee shop etc.
• Shopping trips and visits to other social venues, ensuring his safety at all times and enabling his enjoyment.
• Full UK driving licence holder, with the use of a reliable care is therefore preferred, but not essential.
• Accompany on walks in the local area and occasionally further afield. Training on the support the Employer may need, on his walks, will be given.
• Any other task which the employer may reasonably ask you to do which falls within the scope of the job as a Personal Assistant.

Additional employment information

• The successful applicant will be someone who is motivated, positive and keen to support a young man to expand his horizons at his own pace.
• The successful applicant will be someone who can be both warm and engaging, and also able to build a rapport with the employer, but also empathic to his general mood and abilities.
• The successful applicant will be both reliable and trustworthy.
• A cheerful disposition is needed, happy to join in the employer’s various activities and enabling his enjoyment of the same whilst supervising and ensuring the employer’s safety.
• The successful applicant will be someone who is proactive, keen and motivated to broaden horizons, activities, and who will, without prompting, source and suggest activities and places of interest to client.

Please note you will be directly employed by the person (or their representative) that you will be assisting. North Northamptonshire council is not the employer.

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