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Personal Budgets Support Service; Kettering (OH); On-site; USD 14,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Personal Budgets Support Service in Kettering is seeking a Female Personal Assistant / Care Assistant to join a small team supporting a client at home. The role involves a flexible, variable hours contract with evenings and weekends, approximately 15 to 20 hours per week, at £13.00 per hour.

Duties include assisting with personal care and domestic tasks, meal preparation, laundry, money management, light household duties, shopping, accompanying outings, and helping with transport using the

Qualifications

• Friendly and empathetic approach respecting client independence.
• Motivated and able to encourage others.
• Understanding of the impact of disability.
• Patient and calm with a good sense of humour.
• Interest in client’s social and recreational activities.
• Willing to learn and adapt to home-based support.
• Responsible, mature and respectful in a home setting.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Able to work flexibly.

Responsibilities

• Assist with personal activities, including minimal personal hygiene.
• Support domestic tasks: meal preparation, laundry and money management.
• Aid with cognitive therapy activities for orientation/memory.
• Carry out light household duties to keep the home clean.
• Assist with shopping: plan trips, make lists, buy items.
• Accompany the client on local trips and outings.
• Support use of public transport.
• Drive the client’s Motability vehicle (driving licence essential).
• Other tasks within the scope of a Personal Assistant.

Skills

Empathetic support

Communication

Flexible hours

Driving licence

Teamwork

Patient

Humour

Job description

SH06/25/KE Female Personal Assistant / Care Assistant

Female Personal Assistant / Care Assistant

Job reference:

SH06/25/KE

Hours

You will be on a variable hours contract, as the number of hours will change from week to week, with the possibility of approximately 15 to 20 hours work a week.

The role will include evening and weekend work.

Rate

£13.00 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.
• 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.