Increase to £10.50ph Gross-personal Assistant P/t

**Increase to £10.50ph gross-Personal Assistant P/T, increase to 19h pw (2.7h pday)-Bath BA2**:
General:

- Personal Assistant
- Required for 82-year old man with mixed dementia, for supporting him in place of his spouse: managing his toilet needs and personal care including washing him, his clothes and bedding and hanging out to dry (re-making bed with linen provided), and brushing and flossing teeth, nutrition, safety, maintaining a habitable home environment, combined with memory and physical-movement prompting for basic thought processes, daily tasks and walking about the home and outside a little including to/from the nearby car, and maintaining family relationships including interactions with his disabled (autistic) daughter.
- a) Car driver ideal, with full clean UK driving licence,
_unless _b) able to reliably walk or use public transport to us:
- (a) If you have a car, the gentleman has a Blue Badge for use while in his service (nearby street parking is easy).
- (b) If you are using public transport, we are just off the Lower Bristol Road opposite LIDL in Bath. Buses run along here all the time from Bristol and within Bath.

Hours: mornings around 10am for 1.5-2h flexible in case of weekend away - average 12.5h per week.
- Rate of pay £10.50 per hour gross.

**Tasks include**:
Other Responsibilities:

- Punctuality: Arrive at the scheduled time, ready to start work. Let me know if you are going to be more than 10 minutes late but as much as possible advance notice if need to be absent, to enable temporary replacement to be found (if possible).
- Confidentiality: The gentleman will need you to respect his privacy. Many problems can arise from casual conversation about the care and assistance that you give. Maintain a professional approach at all times.
- Good Attitude: appreciate the strains and stresses involved for the gentleman, his spouse who represents him, and the effect this can have on their acceptance of your help. You should respect the possessions and equipment in their home. Use of the telephone, heating, television, radio etc. are at their discretion.
- Training: Training will be available in certain key areas. You should be prepared to accept training as beneficial to the gentleman for all the activity he was used to doing beforehand. This includes being aware and accepting of his disabled (autistic) daughter from his point of view. There is no need to work with her (she has her own PA) but there is a need to fit with (adapt to) her interactions between her, her father (the client) and her mother (his spouse). [See immediately next...]

Person Specification:

- It is the job of the Personal Assistant to assist in most areas of personal care and social support, and to act as escort, assistant and companion in the gentleman’s social and day-to-day activities with a HOLISTIC approach taking account of his family (above). He does have some awareness and communication abilities. Your role therefore includes helping him by engaging with him and building an understanding together.

**ESSENTIAL CRITERIA**:

- A friendly and easy going personality
- Patient and calm
- Ability to be firm as required
- An appreciation of confidentiality
- Trustworthiness
- Good timekeeping skills / punctual
- Willingness to be flexible
- Current clean full UK driving licence (unless reliable walking distance or public transport)

**DESIRABLE CRITERIA**:

- Previous experience of working with clients with Dementia and an appreciation of autism (the client’s daughter).

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Services**
- Meal Preparation
- Personal Care
- Domestic Care
- Support to remain independent

**Training**
- Essential PA Guide
- Safeguarding Adults/Children
- Moving & Handling
- Food Hygiene
- Hand hygiene
- Dementia care
- Autism / Aspergers

**Medical**
- Continence Care