Job Title: Personal Support Assistant

Location: Walberton

Hourly rate: £208 per shift

Reference: DP2340

Hours/shifts: 24-hour shift to include a sleeping night. 6 – 10 shifts per 4 weeks, plus shifts to cover holiday & sickness.

Summary

We are a married couple in our 40’s both with cerebral Palsy, we both use power chairs and speech synthesizers and require all aspects of personal care and helping to keep our home clean and tidy, 2 PSA's (personal support assistants) on duty per shift.

We enjoy life to the full participating in a variety of activities including swimming, horse riding, skiing, and summer holidays. We require an honest, reliable PSA with a good sense of humour, who is willing to accompany us on social activities, holidays, and appointments and who as the ability to cook.

We are looking for a personal support assistant to join our existing, friendly team, if this sounds like the right role, please see more details below.

Other requirements

You must have a clean UK drivers’ licence, be over 25 for insurance purposes, happy to drive large accessible automatic vehicles. No experience necessary as full training will be given.

Must be comfortable with cats

Non-smoker preferred or someone who is willing to refrain from smoking during work hours.

Applicant must be willing to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and legally permitted to work in the UK.

Successful applicants will be entitled to holiday pay and will be issued with employment contract.

Other Job Details

During your shift you will have your own room with shared bathroom for use by both PSA's on duty, tv, tea & coffee making facilities.

We all eat together so your meals will be provided during shifts this also includes when we go out for lunch/ Dinner, whilst away on social visits or on holidays.

Flexible and adaptable

Self-motivated, able to work with own initiative

Description

Typical duties

Domestic Tasks:

Laundry, hanging out to dry, ironing and putting away

Changing bed linen

Meals – Preparing food and drinks, cooking and washing up

Shopping

General housework, including cleaning, dusting, and vacuuming

Maintenance of garden

Cleaning of wheelchairs and car

Minor household maintenance, e.g. changing light bulbs, taking down curtains for washing

Personal Care tasks

Washing and bathing/showering

Support with dressing and undressing

Support getting in and out of the wheelchair ‘transferring’

Assistance using the toilet

Mealtimes e.g. preparing good quality meals, feeing the employer, providing drinks

Assistance with Physiotherapy exercises – training will be provided

Support with correspondence and household paperwork e.g. reading letter aloud, writing replies, form filling.

Assistance in the use of the employer’s laptop computer and speech device, including assistance in ‘loading’ the employer’s speech device

Social care tasks

Driving the employer in his own car

At certain times of the year, to accompany the employer to the employer’s work

Accompanying on trips out e.g. to restaurants, shops, pubs, clubs, theatre, cinema, meeting friends and family and swimming

Attending meetings

Accompanying to sporting activities e.g. Boccia and wheelchair football

Other tasks

Assisting in making presentations to public audiences

Person specification

The successful applicant will be:

Able to strictly observe my 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

Patient and possess excellent interpersonal skills

Honest and trustworthy

Cheerful, positive and self motivated

Able to speak, read and write English to a high standard

Legally permitted to work in the United Kingdom

Able to work at all times to high standards of Health & Safety

Previous experience (including life experience) and or knowledge is preferred, but not essential as most aspects of the role can be learned.

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