Personal Care Assistant

4 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom UKCIL Full time

**Job opportunity for a Personal Assistant in South Bristol BS13**:

- (Driving License Essential)

This is a varied role involving driving; running errands; domestic duties; odd-jobs; organisational and secretarial tasks; pet care; companionship; and supporting me to access social, creative, well-being, and other activities.
You will be assisting me with all aspects of everyday life including transportation; cooking; cleaning; shopping; supporting me to organise and declutter my home; caring for pet cats; accompanying me to hospital and medical appointments; liaising with mental health and medical professionals; ordering and collecting medications; providing advocacy support; driving me to leisure and social appointments; doing arts, crafts, gardening, and other activities with me; occasional day trips; and general support and companionship.
You may at times be required to assist with personal care (assisting to wash, dress, do hair, catheter care etc), so you must be comfortable with this.
I do not require lifting, hoisting or rolling, however you must be physically fit and strong and able to carry a fixed frame folding wheelchair (6kg) up and down a narrow staircase, and be able to manoeuvre furniture to clean.
This role is for 16 hours a week.
You will be given set shifts but the ability to be flexible to accommodate ad-hoc hospital appointments is a requirement of the role.
Most days will be single shifts but there will also occasionally be split shifts.

It is essential you are a confident driver in both busy central areas and country lanes, and own your own vehicle with business insurance (although a vehicle could be provided during working hours for the right applicant).

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**Tasks will be varied and will include**:
Practical
- Driving (transportation to appointments and activities) - this will form a large part of the role.
- Manual handling (eg carrying wheelchair up and down stairs)
- Shopping, running errands, collecting medication
- Odd jobs around the home and garden

Domestic
- Cleaning and maintaining high standards of hygiene and cleanliness in the home
- Assisting with meal planning and batch cooking nutritious gluten-free whole food from fresh ingredients
- Hanging laundry / Folding and organising clothes, changing sheets etc
- Assisting with organising and tidying
- Looking after pet cats (feeding, cleaning litter trays and food and water bowls, playing and grooming them, carrying them to the enclosed garden).

Personal care: (Occasional only ie as holiday cover for other PAs, and short term post-surgery when higher levels of support is required)
- Assisting to wash and dress
- Washing and tying up my hair
- Catheter care (full training will be given)

Physical activities
- Taking responsibility for remembering to pack bags and vehicle for outings
- Driving (to activities, woodland, beaches etc)
- Route planning and taking responsibility for parking
- Loading and securing equipment carefully and safely into the vehicle
- Providing companionship and emotional support to assist with overcoming anxiety and panic attacks
- Assisting with maintaining a good routine for physiotherapy and hydrotherapy exercises (exercise guides are provided by specialists)

Well-being
- Assisting with well-being activities eg arts & crafts, games, relaxation, time in nature
- Supporting me to attend accessible social, leisure and sporting activities
- Assisting to spend time in, and maintaining the garden
- Providing companionship
- Empowering and enabling me to remain independent and autonomous of my own decisions and my home

Secretarial
- Taking the mental load of remembering things eg tasks, routines, appointments
- Finding accessible places and activities
- Planning days out and taking responsiblity for route planning, parking, accessibility, packing bags etc
- Advocating for me and liasing with other professionals or organisations
- Making notes during medical appointments
- Making phone calls, letter writing, completing on-line forms
- Liaising with mental health professionals, pharmacy and GP
- Record keeping

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**Skills required**:

- Calm, intuitive and caring personality, cheerful nature, and an enthusiastic and positive attitude
- Highly respectful of other people's homes, beliefs, and ways of doing things
- Careful, amenable and respectful when carrying out duties
- Ability and willingness to follow direction
- High level of compassion for mental health difficulties
- Reasonably strong and fit and able to undertake physical activities
- Careful and confident driver
- Good personal and professional boundaries
- Highly reliable
- Willingness and ability to be flexible with shift pattern
- Attention to detail
- Experience of caring for cats
- Clean and considerate personal habits
- Ability to cycle and swim would be highly advantageous
- Ability to work independently, self manage, and use own initiative to g

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