Personal Care Assistant (PCA)

Principal Recruitment; Kingsbury; Sur place; GBP 19 000 - 23 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

School hours

Weekends off

Long-term role

Route to permanent

Résumé du poste

Principal Education is recruiting a Personal Care Assistant for a specialist school in Brent, starting Monday 2 November. This is a full-time role, Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 3:30pm, term time only, paying £105 to £125 per day depending on experience.

As a Personal Care Assistant, you'll support children and young people with complex needs, including SLD and PMLD and physical disabilities. You'll help with personal care, moving and handling, mealtimes and daily routines, always with dignity and

Qualifications

• Experience of personal care in school, care home, hospital or community.
• Calm, patient and caring approach.
• Enhanced DBS via Update Service or willingness to apply.
• Moving and handling training is a bonus.

Responsabilités

• Support pupils with personal and intimate care with dignity.
• Assist with moving and handling and safe transfers.
• Support pupils at mealtimes, including feeding needs.
• Collaborate with teachers, therapists and nurses as part of the class team.

Connaissances

Personal care experience

Calm demeanor

Moving and handling

Description du poste

Earn £105 to £125 per day as a Personal Care Assistant, working school hours with weekends and school holidays free. No school experience is needed: if you've given personal care before, your skills are exactly what this specialist school is looking for.

Principal Education is recruiting a Personal Care Assistant on behalf of a specialist school in Brent, starting from Monday 2 November. This is a full time Personal Care Assistant role, Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 3:30pm, term time only, paying £105 to £125 per day depending on experience.

As a Personal Care Assistant, you'll support children and young people with complex needs, including severe and profound learning disabilities (SLD and PMLD) and physical disabilities. You'll help pupils with personal and intimate care, moving and handling, mealtimes and daily routines, always with dignity and warmth, so they feel safe and ready to learn.

This Personal Care Assistant role is ideal if you've worked as a Healthcare Assistant, Care Worker or Support Worker, or if you're looking for PMLD Teaching Assistant or Care Assistant roles in schools.

Your duties as a Personal Care Assistant will include:

• Supporting pupils with personal and intimate care, with dignity and respect
• Moving and handling, including hoists and safe transfers
• Supporting pupils at mealtimes, including those with feeding needs
• Working alongside teachers, therapists and nurses as part of the class team

To be considered for this Personal Care Assistant role, you'll need:

• Experience of personal care, in a school, care home, hospital or the community
• A calm, patient and caring approach
• An Enhanced DBS on the Update Service, or willingness to apply
• Moving and handling, epilepsy or PEG feeding training is a bonus

What Principal Education offers:

• £105 to £125 per day, depending on experience
• School hours, with weekends and school holidays free
• A long term role with a route into a permanent position
• A dedicated SEN consultant who supports you from your first day
• Over 700 five star Google reviews from candidates and schools

Principal Education is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the application process, just let us know.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references and our full safer recruitment checks