Personal Assistants
Ref: GN8321
Location: Eastbourne
Details
This role is to support a Woman
Drivers licence required: Yes
Employment status:
employed
Hours per week:
Weekdays, weekends & overnights (sleep in) shifts available working 2:1 during the day. Days and hours can be flexible.
Hourly pay rate:
Starting pay rate of £15.00 per hour subject to experience rising after a successful period of probation & training
Enthusiastic, engaging & experienced PAs required to join an existing team providing care & support needs to a 29-year-old young lady who has Cerebral Palsy, scoliosis and dystonia living in her own fully adapted home.
M has a happy and easygoing personality and enjoys music, shopping, fashion, cooking, films, art and creative activities. She attends Chailey Heritage Foundation’s Leisure & Skills Centre.
M requires assistance with all her daily needs.
Full training will be provided to meet M’s individual needs.
Duties include:
- Undertake all personal care
- Give feed via gastrostomy button
- Provide ongoing entertainment and stimulation
- Medication preparation & administration
Candidate qualities:
- must be able to demonstrate experience of supporting someone with complex & physical needs
- have experience of using specialist equipment such as overhead ceiling hoist, wheelchair and standing frame
- will be able to support M to participate in a range of activities in her home and outside
- have ability to speak & understand English to communicate with M, who is non verbal but has her own ways of communicating
- reliable, flexible & committed to the role.
- Car driver preferred and willing to drive M’s wheelchair accessible vehicle
Additional requirements
Non-smoker preferred or someone willing to refrain from smoking during working hours
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
