Rg6 Buddy

**Title**:Buddy / Personal Assistant
**Location**: Reading, RG6
**Nearest Tube/Station**: Reading
**Wage/Salary**: £910.00 gross per 7 days
**Driver Essential?** No
**Essential**:This role is open to *female applicants only. No experience is necessary, but flexibility and initiative are key attributes as well as a willingness to be involved in student life. Non-smoker/vaper.
**Start Date**:January 2023
**Days & Hours**: This is a live-in role ideally 7 days on, then 7 days off. Approximately 35 hours a week. Term-time only.Other working patterns and bank roles can be considered if required.
**Family/Client Pets**: None
**Accommodation**: Own (lockable) bedroom and ensuite in campus flat shared with Charlotte and 3 other students.
**Recruiter**: Jackie

**About this client/child**:
Charlotte is 20 and a 3rd year Speech and Language Therapy student at Reading University. She enjoys all the things that a typical 20-year-old would. She does not smoke and can drive. Charlotte has Hemiplegia and Hip dysplasia and needs assistance to enableher to access everything her university and student life has to offer. Charlotte’s help needs are non-intimate and no lifting is required; Charlotte gets around on her mobility scooter and powered wheelchair. What she needs help with is largely dictated byher pain levels which can change daily so no day will be the same.

**Overview of role**:
A typical day may involve helping Charlotte to get organised for lectures, helping to cook and generally being a supportive person; encouraging and assisting with Charlotte’s physio exercises, and accompanying her around campus. The salary is £130.00 grossper day, (£910.00 gross for 7 days). The hours will be approximately 35 a week, due to the nature of the job, times will vary depending on Charlotte’s needs and activities planned. (She is not an early riser for example, so on the weekends/non-college days,it may be a later start time).

**Who this job would suit**:
**What’s great about this job**:
This is a unique and genuinely rewarding opportunity. You have your own room and ensuite, and there’s a good size kitchen with full cooking and storage facilities. It is an attractive campus with lots of green space and shops. An enjoyable perk of this rolewill be to accompany Charlotte to the local Nirvana spa where she enjoys the hydrotherapy pools

**Who is recruiting for this role?**

**Please note**:
*Where a specific gender is stated as essential, gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance to paragraph 1, of schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 for female or male worker to work with our client.