Self Employed Personal Assistant
Ref: CZ8091
Location: Hassocks
Details
This role is to support a Man
Drivers licence required: Yes
Own vehicle needed: Yes
Employment status: self-employed
Hours per week: 9.5 hrs a week over 3 or 4 days a week (flexible times)
Hourly pay rate: £17
Would you like:
to provide personal care services to someone who will truly value you?
to make a real difference in someone’s life and enable them to be a good father, community man, and perhaps even develop a thriving business that will serve the community and provide work?
to develop your personal care business and skills, whilst doing rewarding, life-affirming work?
then read on.
I am looking for assistance with domestic care and personal organizational tasks, to facilitate independent living, help create and sustain a happy and tidy home, and be able to thrive in and serve in the community. If you're reliable, naturally caring, and passionate about providing great, person-centred care, then this might be the project for you.
Core duties will include assisting with meal and shopping planning, calendar management, diary keeping, some implementation, personal hygiene and care planning and routines, assisting where needed, also medication administration, other personal care, liaising with key support workers, medics, utilities, banks, and other service providers, and general home and domestic budget and organizational management.
Duties include:
Medication prompting/administering
Personal grooming
Transportation
Companionship
Candidate qualities:
Respectful of the employer's privacy and confidentiality
Reliable with good timekeeping
Able to both follow instructions and work on own initiative
Hygienic, tidy and well organised
Fit and healthy to undertake the required duties
Patient and possess excellent interpersonal skills
Honest and cheerful
Creative
Able to speak and read English to a reasonable standard
Must be comfortable with pets
Able to always work to high standards of health & safety
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 in your application for this position, you will be either 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 the suitability and agreement with the employer. If the role is 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