Female Personal Assistant – KSYOR Needed in Haxby, York

Reporting to: Direct Payment Employer

Location: Haxby, York

Hours of work: Full time (39 hours) and part time (31 hours) roles available within the following rota:

Monday 8am – 6pm

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 7.30am – 6pm

Friday 8am – 6pm

Saturday 8.30am – 4.30pm

Rate of pay: £16.29 per hour

Driver essential due to location

Job purpose:

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

About the employer:

Our daughter is a lively young woman who has complex care needs, she is a wheelchair user, she has a learning disability, she is nonverbal and due to her condition she has limited hand function. She has a great sense of humour.  She can communicate using her communication book and has recently started to learn to use an eye gaze communication aid. Our daughter loves to be busy; she attends a day centre where she participates in various arts and crafts activities.  She also attends regular hydrotherapy sessions.  At home she loves to be given a massage, have a foot spa or her nails painted.  We are looking to expand our small team of PAs to support her with all aspects of personal care and as she likes to keep busy the team of PAs will enable her to participate in suitable activities inside and outside our home.

Our daughter enjoys been active in the community going on regular trips to the garden centre, for walks to feed the animals and day trips to places such as the coast, National Trust. She loves to people watch, and to look at and feed the animals.  We are looking for PAs who can nurture and support her in the community and bring enjoyment and happiness of life.

Main duties:

Social duties

• Keep in touch and socialise with friends
• Support and participate in her day service with various workshop activities
• Activities inside my home such as massage, foot spa, sensory activities crafts, watch movies.
• Days out to see animals, to the coast, museums, National Trust etc

Personal care

• Support with bathing showering
• Teeth cleaning
• Dressing
• Thicken all drinks
• Support with feeding minced and moist food (hand over hand where possible)
• PEG feeding,
• Administering medication,
• Performing physiotherapy stretches
• Changing pads
• Standing transfers
• Transfers with hoist

Domestic duties

• Cooking and serving nutritious meals and snacks (minced and moist foods)
• Keeping areas clean and tidy as you have found them

These duties may vary from day-to-day.

Other duties

• Driving our large wheelchair accessible vehicle (driver essential must be over 25 for insurance purposes)

Type of person that we are looking for:

Values

• Honest
• Reliable
• Punctual
• Professional
• Ability to build good relationships based on trust and respect
• Adaptable
• Easy going
• Able to work as part of a team
• Positive
• Willingness to travel
• Has an understanding disability
• Has a good sense of humour
• Able to put a confidentiality policy into practice

Specific requirements:

• Happy to go in water to support our daughter with her hydrotherapy.
• Good general health is important to be able to go out for walks pushing a wheelchair and support with physiotherapy exercise.

Other:

• Due to the nature of this role including medical/personal care the potential employer will be considering female applicants only.
• A car driver with a clean driving licence who is able to drive a large wheelchair accessible vehicle is preferred but not essential.

What you can expect to receive:

Full training will be given alongside a full induction.

There is a genuine occupational requirement for the holder of this post to be male/female in accordance with the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 and Equality Act 2010 schedule 9 paragraphs 1 – 4.

This vacancy will close as soon as a suitable candidate is appointed.

At the time of starting their employment, the successful candidate must have permission to work in the U.K.