Personal Assistant (Social Care) Staplehurst

Direct Payments; Staplehurst; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

Direct Payments in Staplehurst seeks a dedicated Personal Assistant (Social Care) to support a high-functioning autistic adult and their family. The role emphasizes understanding autism, non-judgement, and a respectful, supportive approach to daily life, appointments, and communication within the household.

The ideal candidate will be local, motivated, and adaptable to a changing workload, including administration tasks and coordinating services.

Qualifications

• Experience or understanding of autism and non-judgemental approach toward invisible challenges.
• Experience as a Personal Assistant or in social care is preferred.
• Willingness to be flexible with duties and times.

Responsibilities

• Support the home with general duties.
• Assist with garden maintenance and wellbeing activities.
• Support with nutritional planning and healthy eating.
• Advocate for caring responsibilities for a high-need child.
• Provide information on community services and facilities.

Skills

Autism awareness

Job description

Personal Assistant (Social Care) Staplehurst

This role is to support a high functioning autistic adult (moderate tendencies), who requires support of up keeping the everyday pressures in life. Ideal candidate is someone who has experience / understanding around autism and is non-judgemental about the internalised / invisible struggles that many autistic adults face. Ideally a motivated and well-rounded candidate with knowledge in a variety of areas including autism. Being local to Staplehurst, Kent is an advantage but is not a necessity.

There will be a team navigated around the support of a 16-year-old, who has high care needs. The main need is preventative to support the caregiver to avoid becoming overwhelmed at times, when they are supporting a child with high care needs and managing a lot of external services, including EOTAS. Reduction of autism fatigue and burnout for them, as they maintain a support network for their child. Also promoting / motivating their personal interests, to grow in the future and improve quality of life for the household overall.

Flexibility is given below due to the need being interchangeable, to support particular areas as / when needed. Ie if doing workload of administration documents to evidence requests from council or making changes / application to other services to support needs, then capacity to do other jobs will reduce significantly and therefore have a domino effect and other jobs build up to a point they become too overwhelming to manage.

Duties can apply to some of the descriptions below:-

• Supporting to maintain the home environment with general duties.
• Support maintaining areas in the garden and advice to help create a holistic space to support wellbeing.
• Occasional management of nutritional intake, introducing new recipes and promoting healthy eating.
• Support / help with advocating caring responsibilities for a child who has a high need of care.
• Providing options of facilities / services in the community / recreational facilities to access.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (cost covered by employer) and references.

Shift Pattern:

Hours are – 8 hours between Monday to Sunday. Times to be agreed.

Someone who has experience / understanding around autism and is non judgemental about the internalised / invisible struggles that many autistic adults face. Ideally a motivated and well rounded candidate with knowledge in a variety of areas including autism.