Social Personal Assistant - ADANCL

Disability North; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Part time

Job summary

Disability North is seeking an experienced personal assistant to support a loving 11-year-old boy with autism and other needs in Newcastle. The role requires full supervision, patience, and the ability to follow routines and keep him safe during activities and travel.

You will assist with daily tasks, including toileting prompts and monitoring food intake, and accompany him to cinema trips and local outings during school holidays.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children with autism.
• Able to supervise and keep safe.
• Comfort with toileting prompts and basic hygiene.

Responsibilities

• Provide constant supervision for AJ to ensure safety.
• Monitor time and assist with routines and transitions.
• Assist with toileting prompts and after-toilet hygiene.
• Support activities including cinema trips and local outings.
• Safeguard against distress and minimise exposure to large groups.
• Assist with inhaler use during asthma episodes.
• Assist with transport safety using public transport.

Skills

Autism experience

Patience

Time management

Daily living support

Job description

Hours: 15.5 hours per week. School holidays only including weekends

Area: Newcastle Upon Tyne

Rate: £15.00 per hour

We are currently recruiting for an experienced personal assistant for a loving, introverted 11-year-old young boy with Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, PICA and Global developmental delay. AJ always requires full supervision as he will eat non-food items and has no awareness of danger. He currently resides with his mum and dad and attends a specialist provision that he is thriving in. This role would suit someone that has experience working with children with autism and is a necessary requirement.

AJ enjoys a variety of sensory stimulating activities including trampolining, swimming and trips to the local activity centres, he would like to visit and explore new venues to widen his experiences within the community. One activity which he is currently enjoying is trips to the cinema with his camera to photograph the large posters and dates on them so expect plenty of trips to Cineworld.

Routine is very important to AJ and timekeeping is essential as he will monitor time and fixates on arrival and depart times using his clock.

AJ can on rare occasions become dysregulated and may lash out once he is comfortable with you, so coping strategies like calm voice and reassurance to manage these must be demonstrated and implemented to always ensure his safety. AJ becomes particularly anxious around other children, and he views them as a threat, so you must be able to minimise exposure to larger groups of children whilst ensuring he still has ability to engage in his choice of activities

AJ enjoys home life and spending time on his own where he can control Sky and screen time, usually watching programmes he has recorded and has on repeat.

AJ is independent in eating and drinking but monitoring his food intake is required and there will be some personal care in the role in the form of toileting prompts and assistance with after toilet hygiene.

AJ has Asthma so you will be required to ensure he utilises his inhaler if he has an asthma attack, which will present with continuous coughing usually after much exertion or laughing.

AJ will use public transport and regularly enjoys trips on the metro; however, you must safeguard him around traffic and in particularly traffic lights as they trigger him and he can become a flight risk.

Once you get to know AJ you get the privilege of seeing his full character and you will have lots of fun, he’s a very popular young man.

Driver preferred for this role but not essential.

For more information, please see the Job Description

This vacancy will close as soon as a suitable candidate is appointed.

At the time of starting their employment, the successful candidate must have permission to work in the U.K.