SH06/25/KE Female Personal Assistant / Care Assistant

Personal Budgets Support Service; Kettering; On-site; GBP 1,000; Part time

Job summary

A personal support service in Kettering is seeking a Female Personal Assistant to provide care for a client with an acquired brain injury. The role requires flexible hours, including evenings and weekends, with responsibilities ranging from assisting with personal care to accompanying the client on outings. Ideal candidates will have empathy, patience, and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Ability to respect client’s independence while providing support.
• Motivational skills to encourage the client.
• Understanding of the impact of disability.

Responsibilities

• Assist with personal and domestic activities.
• Aid in cognitive therapy and light household duties.
• Accompany the employer on outings and trips.

Skills

Empathetic support

Good listening skills

Patience

Communication skills

Flexibility

Job description

Overview

Position: Female Personal Assistant / Care Assistant

Job reference: SH06/25/KE

Hours: Flexible hours available. You will be on a variable hours contract, with approximately 15 to 20 hours per week. The role will include evening and weekend work.

Rate: £12.50 per hour

Area: Kettering, (NN15 Area)

About the client

The client is a lady living in her own home in Kettering. She has an acquired brain injury. She has a team of personal assistants and is looking for another worker to join her team. You will enable the client to lead as active and fulfilling life as possible, whilst building up her level of independence. You will support her continued independent life, enabling her to enjoy her pastimes and also to assist her to explore and expand her leisure opportunities and activities.

Main Duties

• Assisting with personal activities, e.g. minimal personal hygiene
• Assisting with domestic activities; meal preparation, laundry and money management etc.
• To aide with a home cognitive therapy programme which might include strategies to improve orientation, short term memory loss, sequencing and planning.
• Light household duties, i.e. vacuuming, laundry, cleaning of surfaces etc to ensure a clean and tidy household.
• Assisting the employer with shopping (including the planning of shopping trips, making shopping lists and visiting the shops to purchase items required)
• Accompanying the employer on local trips and outings, ranging from walks in the park to going to the theatre or to the pub for a meal.
• To help the employer gain confidence in the use of public transport.
• You will be required to drive the client’s Motability vehicle, therefore a full clean driving licence is essential.
• Any other task which the client may reasonably ask you to do which falls within the scope of the job as a Personal Assistant.

Additional employment information

• The successful applicant will be; friendly, able to give empathetic support, while respecting the client’s independence but also able to take instruction.
• An enthusiastic person who has the ability to motivate others.
• Have an understanding of the impact of disability.
• Be a good listener.
• Have a patient and calm manner with a good sense of humour.
• Have an interest in the client’s social and recreational activities.
• Be willing to learn.
• Be responsible, mature and respectful in their attitude to working with somebody in their own home.
• Have an ability to communicate well, both verbally and in writing.
• Be able to work flexibly.

You will report directly to the Team Leader, however, please note you will be directly employed by the person who has power of attorney for the client. North Northamptonshire Council is not the employer.

You will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS Check, the cost of which will be borne by the Employer.

Sponsorship cannot be provided by individual employers. Your right to work in the UK must be confirmed already.

If applying through Indeed, please be aware that you will then need to complete and submit an application form via a link, to the North Northamptonshire Council website, that will be sent directly to you by PBSS.