Personal Assistant

Job title: Personal Assistant (PA)

Reporting to: The Employer

Location: Fordhouses, Wolverhampton WV10

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 55-year-old female living in the Fordhouses area of Wolverhampton who is looking to recruit a Personal Assistant to provide support with personal care and domestic duties for 10.5 hours per week.

Our client suffers with Fibromyalgia, PTSD and Emotional Dysregulation and be very unsteady when mobilising around the home.

Main Duties

Social duties:

• Keep in touch and socialise with family and friends
• Attend medical appointments if required

Personal care: Support with showering & hair washing.

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 and diversity.
• Specific requirements: someone with previous care/support experience.
• Other: Due to the nature of this role including personal care the potential employer will be considering female applicants only.

Hours of work: 10.5 hours per week - 2 hours per day Monday to Friday - Preferably early mornings

Rate of pay: £11.30 per hour

Skills, qualifications, and experience

Essential:

• Driving licence
• Car and appropriate insurance
• Previous care/support experience
• Confidentiality
• Good at building relationships

Preferred:

• Computer literate
• Good communicator
• Likes dogs as there are 2 small friendly dogs in the home
• 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.