Job Title: Personal Assistant

Location: South Croydon

Hourly rate: £10.42

Reference: SC166

Hours/shifts: 1 PA for 24.5 hours per week or 2 PAs for 12.25 hours per week. AM and PM calls ideal. Some flexibility available, times to be discussed at interview. Job share available.

Summary

Personal assistant (PA) required in South Croydon area for a lady with complex medical conditions. Hourly rate £10.42. Hours to be negotiated at interview stage but can vary depending on doctors/hospital appointments.

Potential candidates must be very empathetic, understanding and patient, with the ability to use their own initiative. A full driving licence and access to own vehicle is desirable.

Employment location is well accessed on bus and train routes and parking is available.

An ideal candidate would be fun loving, have a great sense of humour and share some laughs with me.

Other Requirements

• All applicants must be willing to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check

Successful applicants will be entitled to Holiday pay and will be issued employment contracts

Description

Typical duties

Domestic:

Helping with laundry: loading and unloading the washing machine; hanging out to dry; ironing; putting away

Changing bed linen

Bed making

General cleaning

Taking out rubbish/recycling

General housework, including cleaning, dusting and vacuuming.

Assist with preparing drinks, snacks and meals.

Shopping

Tidying

Correspondence e.g. reading letters, help writing replies, form-filling, assisting with household

paperwork

Making phone calls on my behalf when I am too unwell to do this

Making tea for guests

Personal Care:

Assistance to get into/out of bed

Assistance to use the toilet

Assistance with showering or washing and drying

Assistance to apply moisturisers

General skin, hair, oral and nail care

Helping with other aspects of personal care as required, for example assisting to get

changed in swimming pool/gym.

Getting in and out of the wheelchair (‘transferring’)

Physiotherapy exercises

Social:

Accompanying employer to doctors/hospital appointments when required

Accompanying employer when accessing social and leisure activities, including to the gym, swimming pool, exercises classes etc.

Accompanying and assisting employer on shopping trips when required or putting away delivery of food

Accompanying when clothes-buying, including help with un/dressing and lifting clothes on/off the rails.

Lifting the folding wheelchair in/out of car.

Spending time with the employer, watching TV, talking, laughing etc

Accompanying on trips out e.g. to the library, meditation classes, yoga for people with

ME, to see family.

Driving and accompanying to social events such as:

Cinema

Church

Accompanying on trips out e.g. to the garden centre, beach, cinema, craft fairs, local visits, out

shopping for fun, attending social events, attending therapies and disability group

Accompanying to social meetings e.g. friends, family

Person specification

The successful applicant will be:

Female due to personal care required

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