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Penderels Trust; Exhall; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 25,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer

Job summary

Penderels Trust in Exhall, England is seeking a part-time Personal Assistant to support a non-verbal young boy with autism, ADHD, and severe learning disabilities. The role is on-site in Exhall and involves helping him access community activities while promoting independence and social interaction in a safe, engaging way.

The ideal PA will be energetic, understanding of challenging behaviours, and willing to join in with activities and enthusiasm.

Qualifications

• Support and/or prompt with personal care including toileting, showering, dressing.
• Encourage access to sporting and leisure activities and socialisation.
• Promote friendships, independence, and one-to-one trust.

Responsibilities

• Support the individual in accessing community activities and developing life skills.
• Ensure safety in community settings and manage supervision given the individual's needs.

Job description

A non-verbal young boy with autism, ADHD, and severe learning disabilities is looking for a Personal Assistant (PA) who is fun, energetic, and confident. The ideal PA will support him in accessing the community, developing life skills, encouraging independence, and building social interaction skills. The role involves helping him become more comfortable and familiar with community settings while ensuring activities are enjoyable, engaging, and tailored to his individual needs and interests. He is a very loving and affectionate young boy who enjoys showing his happiness and affection to those around him. He loves giving cuddles and will often seek close contact, sometimes invading personal space as a way of expressing himself. He will point and lead you to something he wants as a form of communication. He is also very energetic and hyperactive, with no awareness of danger, so he requires close supervision when out in the community. When he is happy—which is most of the time—he expresses his excitement through loud vocalisations, hand flapping, and other stimming behaviours. He may also throw small objects and run up and down enthusiastically when excited. The right PA will need to be understanding of these behaviours, able to support him safely, and willing to join in with his enthusiasm while helping him develop appropriate boundaries and life skills in a positive and supportive way.

Employer Disability and Health Conditions

• Cognitive / Learning

The employer's hobbies and interests:

• Trampoline
• Swimming
• Outdoor activites

Other relevant information

• Someone in the household is a smoker.
• The individual has allergies. Pollen and awaiting further results.

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 the individual 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.

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 Requirement

Car driver and car owner – must have business insurance.

Support worker

Company: Penderels Trust

Salary: from £13.75 an hour

Hours: Part-time

Location: Exhall, CV7 3GU

Working pattern: On-site

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 20 Aug 2026

Closing date: 19 Sept 2026

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About Disability Confident

Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.