Personal Care Assistant

3 weeks ago


Wareham, United Kingdom Compass Disability Services Full time

**The Role**: To provide support and care to a cheerful 53-year-old man, who lives in his own home. He has mild learning difficulties, Cerebral Palsy and MS. He is extremely social and has a great sense of humour. You will become part of a dedicated and professional team who together provide 24/7 care. All training will be given to the successful applicant.

**Main Duties**
- All personal care tasks, such as showering and toileting
- Household chores and duties
- Cooking and preparing healthy meals (you can choose to share these with him)
- To administer medication
- To support him with daily exercises, including biweekly hydrotherapy sessions and other physical exercises
- To support him in a range of activities including Art and Crafts, Photography, iPad games, Meditation and occasionally introduce him to other activities
- To take him out in his wheelchair around the town and to drive his wheelchair accessible vehicle to attend other activities and visits to friends and family

**Personal Qualities and Attributes required**:

- Respectful of confidentiality and privacy
- Responsible, reliable and trustworthy
- Respectful of dignity and independence
- Good communication skills and social skills
- Punctual, and flexible
- Car owner with driving license and business insurance is essential, you must also be able to drive a manual car.

*This role is predominantly a lone working position, but with double up support when going out and about, and an Enhanced DBS (formerly CRB) is required for all staff undertaking the role*

**Hours**: 36.5 waking hours, and 2 sleep ins per week (8 hours per sleep in).

You will also be required to cover sickness and annual leave of other team members.

**Job Type**: Full time

**Salary**: £28,288.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- No weekends
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Wareham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Care home: 1 year (preferred)
- Home care: 1 year (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: JW/Dorset/140423


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