Female Support Worker/Personal Care Assistant
Ref: BRR7894
Location: Horsham
Details
I am looking for personal care for a Child
The candidate should be a woman*
Drivers licence required: Yes
Own vehicle needed: Yes
Hours per week:
4 hours per week school term time, 6 hours per week in school Holidays. Day of the week will be regular to be agreed. Optional additional/ad hoc hours to be discussed and agreed also.
Hourly pay rate:
£12
Female Support Worker/PA required to work with our wonderful 11 year old daughter who has Autism and a learning disability.
She is a lovely girl with a cheerful disposition. She enjoys spending time with trusted adults and especially likes to chat and walk around towns.
Her main hobbies are flamenco dancing, musical theatre, cooking, riding her trike, drama and swimming.
You will be required to provide companionship and plan/deliver a range of play activities and encourage her engagement with these.
Support and prompting with personal care and preparing healthy meal/snacks required to enable her to develop independence and confidence.
She finds social interactions with her peers challenging so this would include taking her to and providing support at groups, clubs and activities. Ensuring her safety and wellbeing at all times.
Helping her manage her emotions and anxieties using simple strategies and techniques. Full training and instruction will be provided with this.
Support and prompting also required with personal care tasks and preparing healthy meals/snacks.
You should have experience of working with children with disabilities, ideally Autism.
You must also be friendly, reliable, patient and have a sense of humour.
Driver with own car required. Travel expenses will be paid.
You will report to the child’s mother, who is the employer.
This would be a great opportunity to make a real difference to a young girl’s life.
Duties include:
- Preparing a healthy snack/dinner if needed. All ingredients will be provided. Our daughter loves cooking so she will be happy to get involved with this.
Personal Care:
- Verbal prompting to ensure hygiene and all steps have been followed for personal care and hygiene.
Social:
- Taking her to any social clubs and activities e.g. rebound therapy, karaoke, adaptive cycling, swimming, the park, trampolining, countryside walks, shops, museums, cinema etc.
- Encouraging her to have positive interactions with other children and support her to form friendships.
- Helping her to communicate in a range of situations and explaining social rules to help her understanding.
- Providing a range of activities to engage in at home and in the community that are enjoyable and appropriate to her interests and stage of development. Supporting her to make choices. Activities may include educational, creative, restful, imaginative, physical, sensory, baking, cooking etc. using visual supports to assist this. Playing in the garden on the swings, trampoline, pool, trike etc.
- Keeping her safe and supervised at all times.
- Recording and reporting any accidents or incidents that occur during the session.
- Working with us to help our daughter to overcome her anxieties.
Candidate qualities:
- Female due to the requirement for personal care
- Experienced in working with children with disabilities, ideally Autism
- Friendly and approachable
- Patient and understanding
- A driver with own car
- Able to keep our child safe and supervised at all times
- Sense of humour
- Be comfortable with cats in the home
Desirable:
- First Aid trained
- Knowledge and experience of the zones of regulation
- Makaton or similar trained
- Understanding of sensory processing integration
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 employed directly by the individual employer and not Independent Lives. Successful applicants will be entitled to Holiday pay and will be issued employment contracts.
*Exemption for gender is claimed under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9
