Personal Assistant

Overview

Job title: Personal Assistant (PA) Reporting to: The Employer Location: Stourport on Severn, Worcestershire DY13 Job purpose: To assist with a variety of tasks which will assist the employer who needs care and support to live their personal and social life according to their wishes and interests.

About the employer

Our client is a 41-year-old female living in the Stourport on Severn area of Worcestershire who is looking to recruit a Personal Assistant to provide support with daily living tasks for 15 hours per week.

Our client is diagnosed with ASD, ADHD, OCD and Epilepsy and lives with her 3 young children.

Due to serious health conditions our client has limited mobility.

Main duties

• Personal care: Daily support with all aspects of personal care.
• Domestic duties: Support with grocery shopping, cooking and serving nutritious meals and snacks, cleaning, changing linen and laundry.
• These duties may vary from day-to-day.

Person specification

• Values: Someone that is caring, reliable, friendly, punctual, non-judgemental, ability to build good relationships based on trust and respect, flexible, adaptable, easy going, able to work alone, positive and understands equality and diversity.
• Specific requirements: Someone with an understanding of Autism.
• Previous experience would be preferred.
• Cats in the home.
• Other: Due to the nature of this role including personal care the potential employer will be considering female applicants only.

Hours, pay and conditions

Hours of work: 15 hours per week

Rate of pay: £12.50 per hour

Employed rate or £15 per hour Self-Employed rate

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

Qualifications

• Essential: Previous experience in care/support role
• Understanding of Autism
• Must be reliable
• Must be consistent
• Confidentiality
• Good at building relationships
• Successful applicants will require DBS checks & Employment References.

Additional information

Jobs are provided by the Find a Job Service from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).