Job title: Personal Assistant (PA)

Reporting to: The Employer

Location: Hollywood near Wythall B47

Hours of work: 30 hours per week

Rate of pay: £14.00 per hour & £60 per sleep-in.

Job purpose:

To assist with a variety of tasks which will assist the person who needs care and support to live their personal and social life according to their wishes and interests.

This role involves live-in or overnight support.

About the employer:

Our client is a 32-year-old male living in the Hollywood area near Wythall who is looking to recruit a Personal Assistant to join their team to provide support with all aspects of independent daily living.

Our client has Downs Syndrome, Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder.

Main duties:

Social duties:

• keep in touch and socialise with family and friends.
• attend medical appointments if required.
• support to attend community-based activities such as special Olympics, a tricycle group in Southall, trampolining, lunch club and litter picking at Arrow Valley Park.

Personal care: support with all aspects of personal care.

Domestic duties: support with grocery shopping, cooking and serving nutritious meals and snacks, cleaning, changing linen, laundry.

These duties may vary from day-to-day.

Type of person that you/they are looking for:

• Values someone that is honest, reliable, punctual, non-judgemental, ability to build good relationships based on trust and respect, flexible, adaptable, easy going, able to work alone, positive, willingness to travel, understands equality & diversity.
• Specific requirements: someone with previous care/ support experience preferred but not essential.  Must be a driver as pool car available.

Hours of work: 30 hours per week –

Broke down into 2 shifts 08:00am-23:00pm + sleep-in x twice a week.

Skills, qualifications, and experience

Essential:

• driving licence
• car and appropriate insurance
• confidentiality
• good at building relationships

Preferred:

• previous experience in care and support
• good communicator
• a good listener
• ability to support people with behaviours which challenge.

Successful applicants will require DBS checks & Employment References.

This role is funded by the Local Authority and is paid 4 weekly.