Personal Assistant/TN/PER39454

Direct Payment Employer; Carmarthen; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Direct Payments Support service is seeking a Personal Assistant to support a gentleman living in Carmarthen with 8 hours per week split between Monday and Tuesday. The role involves personal care, meal preparation, shopping, and facilitating independence while ensuring safety in the home.

You will assist with prompting for personal care, medication, meals, appointments, and daily living tasks, including social activities and community engagement. A DBS check is required before starting.

Qualifications

• Caring, patient and friendly.
• Responsible, reliable and honest.
• Proactive and self-motivated with the ability to work on own initiative.
• Has good local knowledge of the area where the employer lives.
• Good time-keeping and flexibility around working patterns and duties as determined by the employer's requirements.
• Ability to keep simple records such as time recording.
• Good communicator able to talk to people on behalf of the employer when required.
• Able to develop long-term supportive and consistent relationships with employers.
• A full, clean driving licence and use of a car is likely to be required.
• Be prepared to have business use on your vehicle insurance to be able to use the vehicle within work hours.
• Be prepared to undergo training in order to best meet the employers need.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the employer with encouragement in gaining independence.
• Enabling the employer to interact socially in their community.
• Providing support to the employer whilst shopping and attending activities of interest.
• Supporting the employer to develop independent living skills.
• To provide companionship in the employer's home, including engaging in conversation with the employer and providing them with social interaction.
• Encouraging the employer to attend appointments.
• Ensuring the employer's safety at all times during your working hours.
• To carry out any other reasonable tasks that are requested by the employer during your working hours.
• To ensure compliance with Data Protection Act.
• Be mindful of safeguarding issues, and feedback any concerns to Carmarthenshire County Council immediately on (01267 228751).
• Be responsible for contacting the GP, Social Worker or Local Authority should the employer need medical assistance.

Skills

Caring

Patient

Friendly

Reliable

Proactive

Self-motivated

Time-keeping

Flexible

Good communicator

Local knowledge

Driving licence

Vehicle insurance

Job description

A gentleman living in Carmarthen town centre requires a Personal Assistant for 8 hours per week split between Monday & Tuesdays. Personal Assistant needs to support, prompt and encourage him with Personal care, domestic tasks, eating and drinking, and other aspects of his daily living tasks so that he is able to remain safely living in his own home.

He requires support with Prompting to have a wash and or shower and anything else relating to his personal care, grooming, using deodorant, shaving, cleaning teeth. Change into clean suitable (climate) clothes. Prompting to take his medication. Prompting to carry out household tasks such as meal preparation, cleaning, hovering, laundry, making hot drinks.

He requires supported to arrange and attend all health appointments as he is unable to do this himself and he needs to be supported to lead a healthy lifestyle and maintain a good level of fitness. Due to his poor short-term memory, he struggles with remembering to eat and drink unless items are left in front of him. He is unable to prepare and cook a meal due to his diagnosis. He also has a very poor appetite. He enjoys eating out with support from his PA or family each day, who will also support him to prepare an evening meal which is left out to remind him to eat

Principal duties and responsibilities:

• 1. Supporting the employer with encouragement in gaining independence
• 2. Enabling the employer to interact socially in their community
• 3. Providing support to the employer whilst shopping and attending activities of interest
• 4. Supporting the employer to develop independent living skills
• 5. To provide companionship in the employer's home, including engaging in conversation with the employer and providing them with social interaction
• 6. Encouraging the employer to attend appointments
• 7. Ensuring the employer's safety at all times during your working hours
• 8. To carry out any other reasonable tasks that are requested by the employer during your working hours
• 9. To ensure compliance with Data Protection Act.
• 10. Be mindful of safeguarding issues, and feedback any concerns to Carmarthenshire County Council immediately on (01267 228751)
• 11. Be responsible for contacting the GP, Social Worker or Local Authority should the employer need medical assistance.

Job Working Environment:

Working in employer's homes and supporting them to access facilities and community activities.

Person specification – Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience & Skills:

• 1. Caring, patient and friendly.
• 2. Responsible, reliable and honest.
• 3. Proactive and self-motivated with the ability to work on own initiative.
• 4. Has good local knowledge of the area where the employer lives.
• 5. Good time-keeping and flexibility around working patterns and duties as determined by the employer's requirements.
• 6. Ability to keep simple records such as time recording.
• 7. Good communicator able to talk to people on behalf of the employer when required.
• 8. Able to develop long-term supportive and consistent relationships with employers.
• 9. A full, clean driving licence and use of a car is likely to be required. This is determined by the needs of the employer and whether you live within walking distance.
• 10. You must be prepared to have business use on your vehicle insurance to be able to use the vehicle within work hours
• 11. Be prepared to undergo training in order to best meet the employers need.

Disclosure Barring Service (DBS)

A Disclosure Barring Service Check (DBS) / criminal record check will require to be undertaken for this post. This will be completed on acceptance of job offer.

This position was posted by the Direct Payments Support service on behalf of the Direct Payment Recipient. The Direct Payment Recipient is the employer. They hold all the employer's responsibilities associated with this role. Carmarthenshire County Council supports them to fulfil their employer obligations.