Overview
Female Personal Assistant/Support Worker required to support a Woman in Rustington. This role involves social and domestic support, and personal care when needed in a bohemian household. The candidate should be a woman*.
Location and Details
Location: Rustington
Ref: DP3282
Hours per week: 16.5 hours per week distributed as follows: Wednesday 5.5 hours, Thursday 5.5 hours, Friday 5.5 hours. 9:00 am start but can be flexible. The hourly pay rate is £15 per hour. Drivers licence required: Yes.
Employer Background
I am an alternative and slightly eccentric 46-year-old woman who appreciates difference and style. I live with a neurological condition called Fibromyalgia and Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) which can cause limbs to dislocate without warning. These conditions require support with day-to-day tasks to avoid exhausting or injuring me. I am looking for a Female personal assistant to provide social and domestic support as well as personal care (when needed) in a bohemian household. I’m fiercely independent and seek support to regain as much independence as possible, including in the garden and while out and about with my dog.
Duties and Responsibilities
* Medication prompting/administering
* Personal grooming
* Eating and drinking assistance
* Moving and handling
* Other relevant duties as required
* Administration
* Housekeeping
* Shopping
* Cooking
* Transportation
* Companionship
* Dressing/undressing
* Bathroom assistance
* Laundry – all aspects
* Changing bed linen and bed making
* Taking the bins out
* Washing and bathing/showering – towelling dry/drying hair when required
* Supervision and/or assistance with showering, drying, hair washing/brushing as required
* Help getting into and out of bath/shower as required
* On-call support when employer showers
* Help getting in and out of bed
* Collecting medication from the pharmacy
* Getting in and out of the wheelchair when required (transferring)
* Supporting physiotherapy exercises
* Support with parenting (e.g., picking up teenage children to visit)
* Driving employer in employer’s car when required; lifting/pushing wheelchair; walking with walking stick as needed
* Accompanying on day trips and leisure activities
* Accompanying to appointments, meetings, courses and workshops
* Assistance with luggage and packing when staying at another residence
* Support walking the dog
Candidate Qualities
* Respectful of privacy and confidentiality
* Able to tolerate the employer smoking in the workplace
* Reliable with good timekeeping
* Able to follow instructions and work on own initiative
* Hygienic, tidy and well organised
* Fit and healthy to undertake the duties
* Patient with excellent interpersonal skills
* Honest and cheerful
* Creative
* Able to read and speak English to a reasonable standard
* Comfortable with pets
* Committed to high standards of health & safety
* Happy to work in a smoking environment
* Female* due to personal care needs
* Previous experience is preferred but not essential; a kind and common-sense approach to these roles
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, you will 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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