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About the Employer
PA required to work with a 28-year-old woman with Cerebral Palsy. Support needed with every day activities. Duties include: personal care, physiotherapy, accessing the community, distance driving for work purposes. (I have a wheelchair accessible vehicle for you to transport me), pet care, and household chores. Flexibility is required. Confident drivers are essential.
Employer Disability and Health Conditions:
• Mobility / Physical
Other relevant information:
• The individual keeps pets in the home.cats fish.
About the Role:
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Support and/or prompt with personal care. This may include toileting, showering/bathing, getting in and out of bed, getting dressed.
• Support and/or prompt with cooking/meal preparation and eating meals/drinks.
• Assist with household chores and general homemaking.
• Support and/or prompt to attend appointments as necessary, e.g. hospital/doctors.
• Support the individual to look after/care for pets.
• Develop a good and trusting one to one working relationship.
The individuals needs may vary from day to day and your tasks may reflect this. You could be required to perform other duties as reasonably required.
You have a responsibility as an employee to report all accidents to the employer immediately. You have a duty to report defects and / or hazards which may give rise to an accident. You are to ensure the safety of the individual at all times.
Due to the nature of the work for which you are applying, this post is subject to a satisfactory DBS disclosure (costs will be covered).
Transport Requirement:
Full driving licence is essential as the role requires you to drive the employer’s vehicle (employer to check age requirement with car insurance provider).
Required Skills:
• Be honest, reliable, trustworthy and punctual.
• Maintain confidentiality and respect privacy, including the prohibited use of social media in relation to the job role.
• To be able to work on own initiative.
• To work as part of a team.
• To be able to follow instructions accurately.
• Be patient, supportive and caring.
• Have good listening skills and be able to provide non-judgemental emotional support.
• Be empathetic.
• Previous caring experience is not essential, however you should have a genuine interest in supporting people with a disability/illness to achieve their goals.
• Be able to work flexibly, adapting to the employers needs on a daily basis.
• Flexibility would be an advantage as the hours may be variable.
• Be self-motivated with a willingness to get involved.
When you are Required:
Specific days/times required:
Hours per week: 10 hours every other weekend
• Wednesday, 10am to 4pm
• Saturday, 10am to 4pm
• Sunday, 10 am to 4pm