Personal Assistant

7 months ago


Penzance, United Kingdom Johnson household Full time

Personal/Study assistant needed to support a woman with chronic illness who is researching a PhD in medical humanities.

Penzance/West Penwith area. Please note that you MUST live within about half an hour's drive to apply.

£12.00 per hour plus holiday pay and expenses, around 15 hours per week, but more can be available depending on the client's projects. Fun and interesting job for the right person.

This is a care and support role so you will need some caring experience or a caring attitude and understanding of what supporting another person with health problems involves. The domestic and care aspects of the job are a priority.

Would ideally suit a recent student (post-grad experience might help) with a mature attitude to responsibility, or a more mature person with a high level of computer competence and recent academic experience looking for flexible part-time work.

Someone long-term willing to get to know the job well and stay for 2 years or more would be preferred.

**Useful skills and experience**:

- Familiarity with using Apple Macs.
- Fast, accurate typing, including taking dictation by voice note or using dictaphone and dictaphone software, min 60 wpm. Typing long complex documents accurately and at speed will be required.
- Great spelling, grammar and punctuation. Must be able to spell academic words like epistemology and use apostrophes correctly.
- Experience at university level of study/research, including the ability to follow complex academic texts and to search for/research obscure information online including downloading journal articles using library and publisher sites and institutional log-ins.
- Competence with using intranets, internet forums, One Drive, Excel, Word formatting, Powerpoint, tables, track changes, PDFs, converting files, setting up document templates and formats, cloud filing/storage etc will be required. Other programs may also be needed as research develops.
- Excellent computer skills with a familiar understanding of different social media and programs e.g. WordPress blogs, Outlook, Ebay, etc. You will need to be able to work to a high level on all these computer tasks without further instruction and find your way around Google to learn new aspects, solve problems or download additional software.
- Be able to understand and follow standard proofreading and editing markup.
- Admin and organisational skills including systematic and efficient paper and digital filing.
- Understand the importance of confidentiality, accurate record keeping and data management standards/laws.
- Full driver’s licence.
- Flexibility to work varied shifts including possibly very occasional travel away from home for up to 5 days at a time.

**Other tasks involved in this job include**:

- Regular food and other shopping in a variety of locations to specific instructions.
- Willingness to turn a hand to other tasks including DIY, errands and outings and personal support, driving to hospitals and appointments, accompanying as support person.
- Cooking, gardening, household chores
- Attendance at deliveries, plumber/electrician or other domestic maintenance appointments
- Help with client's exercising, such as sea swimming or walking
- Some lifting and carrying will be required (eg in garden or for collecting/delivering items)

**Personal qualities**:

- Responsible, reliable, honest and conscientious
- Sensitive, considerate and supportive
- Good communication skills
- Ability to understand and follow instructions accurately, but also to work unsupervised and on own initiative when required
- Sense of humour and easy-going nature
- A fast, efficient and positive approach to work
- Awareness of and focus on supporting physical and mental well-being in all aspects of work
- Current DBS clearance or willingness to obtain
- Discretion and confidentiality at all times

The job will involve supporting the employer in daily living tasks in order to enable her to do research and other projects.

**Job Type**: Part-time

Pay: £12.00 per hour

Expected hours: 12 - 20 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Weekend availability

Application question(s):

- Are you based in Penzance?

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Penzance



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