Personal Assistant

Penderels Trust; Polesworth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A caregiving service is seeking a Personal Assistant to support a clever young person who loves nature and maths. Duties include personal care, meal preparation, and accompanying to appointments. Candidates must be 18 or over, reliable, and have experience in childcare or special needs. The position offers flexible hours during term and holiday times.

Qualifications

• Be honest, reliable, trustworthy and punctual.
• Maintain confidentiality and respect privacy.
• To be able to work on own initiative.
• To work as part of a team.
• Have good listening skills and provide emotional support.
• Previous experience in childcare/special needs is essential.
• Be self-motivated with a willingness to get involved.

Responsibilities

• Support with personal care including toileting and bathing.
• Assist with cooking/meal preparation.
• Support medication administration.
• Help with household chores.
• Accompany to appointments.
• Assist with food shopping.
• Encourage socialization and independence.

Skills

Honesty

Reliability

Trustworthiness

Punctuality

Confidentiality

Patience

Supportiveness

Empathy

Listening skills

Flexibility

Job description

Overview

About the Employer: A calm, funny and clever young person who has a skill for all things Maths is looking for a PA to spend time with doing the things they love. They love nature, building things, Henry hoovers and soft play. However, singers need not apply as they don't like people singing.

Employer Disability and Health Conditions: Cognitive / Learning

Employer's hobbies and interests: Henry Hoovers, Traffic Lights, Maths

Other relevant information: Someone in the household is a smoker and there are 2 cats in property

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.
• Support and/or prompt to attend appointments as necessary, e.g. hospital/doctors.
• Support with food shopping.
• Support to get to and from school/work/college/social activities.
• Support and/or prompt to access sporting and leisure activities.
• Assist and encourage socialisation, participating in activities.
• Promote and encourage friendships and independence.
• Develop a good and trusting one to one working relationship.
• Support with gardening.

Only candidates aged 18 or over should apply for this position as you will be required to administer medication.

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

Car driver preferred but not essential.

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 work as part of a team.
• 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 experience in childcare/special needs is essential.
• Be able to work flexibly, adapting to the employers needs on a daily basis.
• Flexibility would be an advantage as the hours may be variable.
• Be self-motivated with a willingness to get involved.

The person must have a flexible and adaptable nature

Hours

2 hrs term time and 5 hours holiday time