Overview
Personal Assistant
Reference: DP5427
Location: Shoreham-by-Sea
Employment status: employed
Hours per week: 8am - 1pm, various days available; slight flexibility on start time
Hourly pay rate: £14.40
Notes: This role is to support a man with morning care needs. Training will be provided for every aspect of the routine. All training required by law or for this condition is free.
Responsibilities
* Medication prompting/administering
* Personal grooming
* Eating and drinking assistance
* Housekeeping
* Washing and dressing on an adaptable bed
* Catheter care and stoma care (training can be provided)
* Lifting the folding wheelchair in/out of car (only when early appointments for hospital/Doctors are required)
Candidate qualities
* Respectful of the employers privacy and confidentiality
* Reliable with good timekeeping
* Able to follow instructions and work on own initiative
* Hygienic, tidy and well organized
* Fit and healthy to undertake the required duties
* Patient with excellent interpersonal skills
* Honest and cheerful
* Able to speak and read English to a reasonable standard
* Comfortable with pets
* Committed to high standards of health & safety
* Smoking or vaping is not a problem but must be done in the garden
* Other: No car or licence required, but must be able to travel to the home by 8am
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. The role may be 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 suitability and agreement with the employer. If 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
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