Overview
Hours: 36 hours per week
Rate: £17.23 per hour
Area: Cramlington, Northumberland
Contracts on a rolling 4 weekly rota - once all training and probation period is completed.
Full Clean UK Driving Licence Essential
Responsibilities
Seeking a confident and adventurous Personal Care Assistant for a vibrant 36-year-old student teacher who’s anything but ordinary! I am currently recruiting the final two full time Personal Assistants to complete my amazing care team. Are you the right person to support me on my own, exciting journey to become a primary school teacher and live an active and meaningful life, despite my complex health conditions? I am a student teacher studying a part time PGCE (a prior Biology Graduate) with regular placements in local schools each week. You will be required to assist me physically - but not to be my voice… or my brain! This position offers fun, the challenge of learning new skills, attending many adventures together and hopefully having lots of gaggles along the way! Your role will include cooking nutritious (allergy/intolerance friendly) meals daily, providing both complex medical and personal care, and enabling me to embrace an active social life (accompanying me to the cinema/live music concerts/theatre trips and nights out to bars in Newcastle). You must be able to use your initiative and the training provided to work alongside me and my team, to assist me safely during your lone working shifts. Whilst also fitting seamlessly into my life and routines - both at home and whilst in school. This involves supporting me to live as independently as possible, in my own home- a bungalow in Cramlington, and being on hand in the sidelines, discretely whilst at school for if/when a medical/care need arises. I’m looking to complete my team of 5 dedicated PA’s, to provide high quality, around the clock 24 hour, 1-1 support. The shift patterns include a mixture (of 12 hour), day shifts and waking overnight shifts. This includes regular weekend shifts, with roughly one long weekend off/month (see example shift patterns below).
Qualifications
* Driver: must safely drive my adapted automatic Mercedes Sprinter Van
* Non-smoker
* No perfume or aftershave can be worn (due to life threatening allergy)
* Female, with previous physical care experience
* (Minimum 1year experience providing physical care)
* Note: long/false nails, rings/watches & perfume/aftershave cannot be worn on shift due to my Asthma/allergies and fragile skin. This is a non-negotiable aspect of the job due to health needs.
Shift Patterns (36 hour a week contract)
* Week 1:
Tuesday & Wednesday nightshift (20:00 - 08:00)
Saturday dayshift (08:00 - 20:00)
* Week 2:
Monday & Tuesday dayshift (08:00 - 20:00)
Saturday nightshift (20:00 - 08:00)
* Week 3:
Thursday & Friday nightshift (08:00 - 20:00)
Sunday dayshift (20:00 - 08:00)
* Week 4:
Monday nightshift (20:00 - 08:00)
Wednesday & Thursday dayshift (08:00 - 20:00)
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.
Equal Opportunities: We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion, sexual orientation, marital or civil status, or any other protected characteristic.
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