Experienced waking night PA needed
Ref: ES720A
Location: Eastbourne
Details
This role is to support a Woman
The candidate should be a woman*
Drivers licence required: Yes
Own vehicle needed: Yes
Employment status:
Hours per week:
Hours are 10pm – 7am to cover 7 nights per week split between 2-3 people. total hours are 63 per week, and each person would work 31.5 hours if split between 2 people, or 21 hours if split between 3 people.
Hourly pay rate:
Pay: £15.00 per hour. Bank holiday rate £22.50 per hour
Looking for experienced waking night PA/carers to join an existing team. You would be supporting a client in her 50’s living in Eastbourne, East Sussex with multiple complex health issues covering both mental and physical health. This post involves working closely with the client to manage her health issues and assist as needed. Heath issues will be covered in interview but include brittle asthma, diabetes, tonic-clonic epilepsy which can include multiple seizures, which can be unstable, CPTSD.
All training will be provided but health conditions will require PA’s to provide immediate care giving when needed. Depending on how the client is in general there will be a period where you will do things together and then depending on how well she is, you may be able to sleep for some periods during the night. However this is paid as a waking night and her health and monitoring of her health must be your first concern. There will be some personal care as needed .
Hours are 10pm – 7am to cover 7 nights per week split between 2-3 people. Please be aware I have a cat and a dog.
For those who do not want to commit to regular shifts we are also looking for bank PA’s to cover days or nights
Please do not apply if you do not have care experience as this client has complex health issues and you should have current or recent experience. All other training particular to this clients' needs is provided and must be willing to be undertaken. You will ideally have a full UK driving licence in case of emergency.
An informal interview will be required where you will meet the client who requires the overnight care.
Pay: £15.00 per hour. Bank holiday rate £22.50 per hr.
Complex care experience required
Applicants must be reliable, be flexible, have a good sense of humour, be able to maintain confidentiality, be sensitive to the needs of the client, be trustworthy, honest, be a good timekeeper, use their initiative, be able to work as part of a team and be able to work on their own when need be.
Additional hours are available for all workers to cover when other workers are on annual leave, are sick or when extra cover is required.
An interview, two references and a DBS will be required for this position. You must have business insurance in place on your car for work purposes.
Previous experience/training in mental health is desirable but not essential as support and training is provided and a genuine interest of working in the care field for the foreseeable future.
The applicant should have an ability to demonstrate sound boundaries and be a good timekeeper.
As part of the job the successful applicant, if they would like, subject to funding, are able to undertake a level 3 Health and Social Care Diploma as part of their employment.
Duties include:
Candidate qualities:
Additional requirements
Non-smoker due to medical reasons
Notes:
All applicants must have the right to work in the UK and be willing to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check if required.
Please note, if you are successful in your application for this position, you will be either engaged directly or employed by the individual employer and not by Independent Lives. The role may be offered on an employed or self-employed basis, depending on the suitability and agreement with the employer. If the role is employed, you will be entitled to holiday pay and issued an employment contract.
*Exemption for gender is claimed under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9
