Self Employed Personal Care Assistant 7 Hours Per

**Self-Employed Personal Care Assistant, 7 hours per week, BH1 area EMAW**

**About the role**:
An opportunity has arisen for a carer to care for a lady who has Autistic Spectrum Disorder, hyper mobility type Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and other health conditions which affect her daily life and independence. The lady is looking for a carer to help with personal hygiene when needed, help with nutrition, hydration, and support with maintaining a clean, safe, and habitable home environment.

**Day & Times - **7 hours per week, days and times are negotiable

**For further information, please refer to the attached job description and personal spec.**

The BCP Direct Payments Advice Service is a support service for individuals who are living independently within the community. We are not the person you will work for. You will work for the individual or family we are supporting.

For more information or to discuss the role further, please contact Libby Moore on 01202 123961.
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**Job Description & Person Specification**

Job title: Self-Employed Personal Care Assistant

Location: BH1 area

**Job purpose**:An opportunity has arisen for a carer to care for a lady who has Autistic Spectrum Disorder, hyper mobility type Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and other health conditions which affect her daily life and independence. The lady is looking for a carer to help with personal hygiene when needed, help with nutrition, hydration, and support with maintaining a clean, safe, and habitable home environment.

**About the individual**:
She has nerve damage and dysfunction down both arms, degenerative disc disease, hypermobility is now recognised by rheumatologist as hypermobility type Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. The individual has a spinal cord stimulator implanted meaning she has leads from a battery into her lumbar. This restricts bending, twisting and stretching.

The lady’s home can become cluttered due to her struggling physically to complete any housework. The home environment can become overwhelming and the individual needs support to clean the home and to maintain a clean and safe environment.

The individual has three sons and two of the teenage sons live at home and they support mum with household chores, shopping, cooking, washing and dressing.

The individual has several pets living in the home, she has 1 bird, 2 dogs, cats and turtles.

**Hours of work**: 7 hours per week, days and times to be discussed.

**Main duties**

**Social duties**:

- keep in touch and socialise with family and friends.

**Personal Care**:

- support from carer when needed with bathing or showering
- support to ensure individual and her sons have food available, to plan meals, prepare healthy meals. Reduce use of take away food and convenience/ready meals. Kitchen to cleared and cleaned to be accessible. Help in batch cooking healthy meals.

**Domestic duties**:

- support in organising and cleaning the home, maintaining a clean home environment.

**These duties may vary from day-to-day**

**Qualities**
- Values: honest, reliable, punctual, non-judgemental, ability to build good relationships based on trust and respect, flexible, adaptable, easy going, able to work alone, positive, understands equality and diversity or has a good sense of humour.

**Skills, qualifications and experience**

**Essential**:

- confidentiality
- good at building relationships

**Preferred**:

- good communicator
- likes animals
- a good listener

**Other Requirements**

**Essential**:

- Provide evidence of self-employment such as Public Liability Insurance, Terms and Conditions, tax reference number.
- DBS Check will be required
- Legally Able to Work in UK

**Job reference** EM/AW/22853

**Job Type**: Part-time

Work Location: One location