Job Title: Personal Assistant
Location: Heathfield
Hourly rate: £20
Reference: LT233
Hours/shifts: Monday to Thursday, 8.00-9.00am
Summary
The purpose of this role is to
support me to manage daily living skills and activities and support me to manage laundry, shopping and maintaining weekly activities.
Other Requirements
• Must be comfortable with pets
• Non-smoker preferred or someone who is willing to refrain from smoking during work hours.
• Must have a UK driving licence
• Must have access to own vehicle
• Other :
All applicants must be willing to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check if required.
Successful applicants will be entitled to Holiday pay and will be issued employment contracts.
Description
Typical duties
Domestic
• Support to manage meal planning and ensuring I can purchase suitable food
items to uphold mine and my family’s nutritional needs.
• Support to complete online food shopping.
• Support to make meals
• Support with doing the laundry
Personal Care
• Support with morning routine
• Encouragement to complete personal care tasks.
Person specification
The successful applicant will be
• Respectful of the employer’s privacy and confidentiality
• Reliable with good time-keeping
• Able to both follow instructions and work on own initiative
• Hygienic, tidy minded and well organised
• Fit and healthy to undertake the required duties
• Patience and possess excellent interpersonal skills
• Honest and cheerful
• Creative
• Able to speak and read English to a reasonable standard
• Legally permitted to work in the United Kingdom
• Able to work at all times to high standards of Health & Safety
Previous experience preferred but this is not as essential as a kind and common sense approach to these roles.
Please note, if you are successful in your application for this position you will be employed directly by the individual employer and not Independent Lives
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Disability Confident
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