Personal Care Assistant for a young man P/T £13.74/hr in Blyth - FTE - £26.8k

UKCIL; Blyth; On-site; GBP 27,000; Part time

Job summary

A support services provider in Blyth is seeking a Personal Care Assistant to provide support for a young man with Autism and other disabilities. Responsibilities include personal care and assisting him in accessing social activities. This role is 2/3 days per week, approximately 4 hours per day, with flexible scheduling. Experience with personal care and disabilities is essential. The candidate should be friendly, active, and possess a full UK driving license, as well as a personal vehicle. This position offers potential for further hours to ensure active engagement within the community.

Qualifications

• Experience working with adults with Autism and learning disabilities is required.
• Essential to have a friendly and enthusiastic disposition.
• Ability to support clients with personal care.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care and support.
• Assist in social and leisure activities.
• Support independence.

Skills

Experience with Autism

Experience with learning disabilities

Personal care skills

Active and friendly personality

Tools

Full UK driving license

Own personal car

Job description

Personal Care Assistant for a young man P/T@ £13.74/hr in Blyth - FTE - £26.8k

We are looking to recruit a support worker to provide enabling support for a young man with Autism, ADHD, Tourette's Syndrome and a moderate to severe Learning Disability as well as eyesight loss and he uses hearing aids. Please note that this role is to cover long term sickness however may lead onto permanent hours. This young man suffers from high levels of anxiety and will need support to manage this. He enjoys travelling on the metro and buses, going to the cinema and theatre, watching trains on level crossings and active activities like ten pin bowling. If you are a friendly, active and enthusiastic person this would be a great role for you. You should have good general health as this is an active role and you should be prepared for each day to be different. He is mobile and uses mobility aids to support him such as a Ramble Tag, a walker or manual wheelchair depending on the activity and distance he needs to travel that day. The support is required to cover 2/3 days per week and these days can be flexible. This would be 4 hours per day and is to enable this young man to access social and leisure activities within the local community. There may be further hours available. He attends a day service through the week and part of your role could be to support when he attends this service. Experience of working with adults with Autism and learning disabilities is required and also experience of supporting clients with personal care.

Key Responsibilities

• Personal Care
• Social + Leisure activities
• Support to remain independent

Training

• Essential PA Guide
• Safeguarding Adults/Children
• Moving & Handling
• Food Hygiene
• First Aid
• Hand hygiene
• Autism / Aspergers

Transportation

• Full UK driving license
• Own personal car

Please apply by clicking above or at ukcil.com