Self Employed Personal Care Assistant, Up to 13

4 months ago

Christchurch, United Kingdom BCP Council Full time

**Self Employed Personal Care Assistant, 6 to 13 hours per week/area (role no1) Christchurch BH23 area**

PLEASE NOTE THERE IS ALSO A SECOND SEPARATE ROLE - SEE OTHER ADVERT.

This is a wide & varied role for a Personal Care Assistant, who is cheerful, uses own initiative to primarily promote independence by supporting a gentleman daily to retain skill/hobbies, live a full and positive life.

The gentleman has a few health issues, early Alzheimer’s dementia, cardiomyopathy, COPD, kidney disease, wears hearing aids, uses walking stick at home, uses powered wheelchair for outdoors. There’s an automatic adapted vehicle for the wheelchair to attend appointments & social/family commitments.

Support required:

- Home organising.
- Admin, including calls, organising/arranging taking to medical/regular appointments.
- Shopping, banking, this includes driving gentleman in his adapted vehicle, helping with in & out of car.
- Meal/diet planning, to support & observe, meal prep.
- Supervision/observation of medication, record charts for clinicians
- Online Shopping
- Support with clothing.
- Domestic tasks, basic housework & laundry
- Occasionally taking small dog for walk

Day & times: 6 days to be discussed, possibly job share, hours 6 to 13 hours per week.

**For further information, please refer to the attached job description and personal spec.**

The BCP Direct Payments Advice Service is a support service for individuals who are living independently within the community. We are not the person you will work for. You will work for the individual or family we are supporting.

For more information or to discuss the role further, please contact Elizabeth Moore, telephone number 01202 123961.
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**Job Description & Person Specification EMWW**

Job title: Self-Employed Personal Care Assistant

Location: Christchurch, BH23 area

**Job purpose**:
The Personal Care Assistant role is to provide support to an individual who has health issues which are listed below. The individual requires help and support in their daily life; so that, they have control over their day-to-day living.

**About the individual**:
The individual is male, uses a walking stick, has hearing aids that don’t always work, so lip reads now and again and uses a powered wheelchair outdoors.

Health issues: COPD, cardiomyopathy, osteoarthritis, kidney disease, Alzheimer's, early short-term memory impairment and hard of hearing

**Rate of pay**:
**Day & Times** - 13 hours per week to include........

Tuesday and Thursday - tea time visits

Saturday & Sunday -- AM and PM visits, 1.5 to 2 hour duration.

Evenings - 1 hour duration, start time 7.45pm / 8.15 pm

Further option for other weekday support and hours

**Social duties**:

- Keep in touch and socialise with family and friends.
- Social interactions, will be anything that may become available to the individual outside the home; for example, going for coffee. Automatic adapted vehicle available.

**Personal Care**:

- Support and assistants with showering
- Help and support with dressing, making sure individual is appropriately clothed.
- Administering, prompting and reminding to take medication. Prompting required to take inhalers.
- Catheter care.
- Help with compression stockings.
- Ordering of emergency medication & equipment.
- Fluid observation

**Domestic duties**:

- Assisting with reheating microwave meal
- Help with preparing breakfast
- Light cleaning, general household tasks, changing linen, laundry
- Shopping
- Going to the market, bank or shops one morning per week
- Menus (weight management)
- Meal prep/cooking and providing snacks

**Additional support**:
Help with phone calls, help with arranging diary, arranging appointments, reading through appointment correspondence and help with online shopping.

These duties may vary from day-to-day

**Qualities**
- **Values**: 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, has a good sense of humour.

**Skills, qualifications and experience**

**Essential**:

- confidentiality
- good at building relationships
- Must like dogs as individual is a dog owner

**Preferred**:

- good communicator
- a good listener

**Other Requirements**

**Essential**:

- Provide evidence of self-employment such as Public Liability Insurance, Terms and Conditions, tax reference number.
- DBS Check will be required
- Legally Able to Work in UK

**Job Type**: Part-time

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: EM/WW1

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