LT10/25/DR Personal Assistant / Care Assistant

Personal Budgets Support Service; Wellingborough; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

Personal Budgets Support Service in the United Kingdom seeks a Personal Assistant / Care Assistant for a stroke survivor in Wellingborough (NN8). Four daily visits, totaling 20 hours per week, with flexible start times. You will provide personal care, mobility support, meal preparation, light housekeeping, and companionship in a family home.

Must be friendly, adaptable and trustworthy. Direct employment is by the employer or their representative; sponsorship is not provided.

Responsibilities

• Personal Care & Manual Handling: assisting with safe transfers, mobility support, dressing, undressing, grooming, and checking general physical well-being.

Job description

LT10/25/DR Personal Assistant / Care Assistant

20 hours a week worked as four visits a day, ideally, as follows:

Times are flexible.

1 hour 7.00 am to 8.00 am to include assisting with breakfast

1 hour 12.00 to 1.00pm Lunch

1 hour 4.00pm to 5.00pm assisting with evening meal

1 hour 8:30pm to 9.30pm assisting with Bedtime routine

Rate

£12.71 per hour

Area

Wellingborough (NN8 Area)

About the employer

To assist the employer, following a stroke, in his family home with day-to-day independent living, personal care, and social support. Shifts are mainly a double up with a second PA.

Main Duties

• Personal Care & Manual Handling: Assisting with safe transfers, mobility support, dressing, undressing, grooming, and checking general physical well-being. This includes performing manual handling tasks using appropriate equipment i.e. hoists, or slide sheets safely as directed assisting physical activities as directed by the Physiotherapist.
• Transport Duties: Accompanying, assisting, and safely taking the Employer to and from hospital appointments, clinics, or other essential health check-ups and other social and or recreational activities as agreed. A deriving license not essential for duties. Employer uses mobility adapted automobiles.
• Domestic, Shopping & Living Support: Undertaking some, not all, grocery errands, preparing serving nutritious meals, cleaning up the kitchen, light housekeeping of care-related areas, managing laundry, and organising medications as prescribed.
• 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 friendly, able to give empathetic support, while respecting the employer’s independence but also able to take instruction.

A can-do attitude and aptitude to assist the employer with her varied interests are needed with a willingness to help her explore new activities, joining in when appropriate.

Must be flexible, trustworthy and active with a good sense of humour.

PLEASE NOTE you will be directly employed by the person (or their representative) that you will be assisting. The Council is not the employer.

Sponsorship cannot be provided by individual employers. Your right to work in the UK must be confirmed already.