Personal Assistant for a Child with Disabilities
Job description
Personal Assistant for a Child with Disabilities to be directly employed by family under a Direct Payment arrangement.
We are supporting a family to recruit 2 Personal Assistants to provide support for their child for 6 hours a week. (6 hours a week per personal assistant) The rate of pay is £15.83 per hour.
Child’s profile:
The child is 12-year-old girl who is non-verbal and has Autism and ADHD.
Support will include full supervision to attend an activity within the community or in their own home and providing personal care when needed.
The child enjoys swimming and soft play. She loves McDonalds and salt and vinegar crisps.
About you:
Desired:
Ideally, you will have the experience of providing support for children and young people, however this is not essential.
Some experience of challenging behaviour desired.
If relevant training needs are identified, this will be addressed and sourced by the family who you are employed by.
Applicants must be enthusiastic, caring and passionate about making a difference to children and young people’s lives.
Essential:
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
Full UK driving licence and have access to your own vehicle.
All applicants who are employed by families must undertake a new enhanced DBS check which will be funded and carried out by the Powys County Council DBS Team.
About the role:
This position will be under a direct payment arrangement, and your employer will be the family (you would not be employed by Powys County Council directly).
You will be employed directly by the family of the child(ren) you support. Powys County Council are not responsible for employment; we are solely acting as an advertiser for PAs.
If desired, please inform the IDS team if you would like to be contacted on behalf of other families looking for support in future. Your information will be held by the IDS Team unless you request us to remove it.
1. Central Welshpool.
For more information, please contact the Team Coordinators Kielfhinn Barnard or Fiona Eaton via email or tel 01597 826604 quoting the reference “348488”.