Area: Rowlands Gill

Hours: Shifts run 24 hours 8am-8am, 1 per week.

Rate: £12.61 per hour

Location: Rowlands Gill

Driving Licence Essential

 

Personal Assistant / Childcare Support Needed ✨

We are seeking a compassionate, reliable Personal Assistant to support a young child and their mother, who has a physical disability, within their home. This role focuses on helping with the child’s daily care and routines, while also providing practical support within the household.

 

📌 Role Responsibilities:

• Assist with the daily care of a young child (e.g., dressing, bathing, feeding, playtime.
• Support the mother with physical tasks related to childcare that she is unable to carry out.
• Light household duties related to the child (e.g., tidying play areas, preparing simple meals).
• Accompany the family to appointments, outings, or activities.

 

📌 Ideal Candidate:

• Kind, patient, and child focused.
• Trustworthy, punctual.
• Comfortable assisting with physical tasks (a genuine requirement of the role).
• Experience with childcare or support work is helpful but not essential.
• DBS/Background check required (will be provided).
• Must hold a full UK driving licence

 

If you are someone who loves working with children and wants to make a meaningful difference to a family’s daily life, we’d love to hear from you. Please contact Georgia on georgiamoat@hotmail.co.uk

 

This vacancy will close as soon as a suitable candidate is appointed.

At the time of starting their employment, the successful candidate must have permission to work in the U.K.

 

Hours: 24-32 hours available per week. Mixture of day and night shifts, or combined.

Shifts patterns are 9.45am-6pm or 5.45pm-10am following morning (including a sleep-in period between 12am-8am) Possibility of a combined shift over a 24-hour period. Monthly rotas are supplied.

Rate: £14.00 per hour, raising to £15.00 per hour after successful completion of 6-month probationary period. £80 set rate per sleepover (for sleep in hours of 12am-8am) Time and a half for bank holidays.

Area: Hamsterley Mill near Rowlands Gill, Gateshead.

Driving Licence Essential

 

Female personal assistant required for a lady with an acquired head injury in her own home in Hamsterley Mill near Rowlands Gill.

Accompanying the client on trips/holidays is a requirement of the job when necessary.

Brain injury experience is preferred but not mandatory. Care experience needed.

 

Job role

The client requires support to live her life as independently as possible. She needs 24-hour care, 7 days a week.

The client needs support with personal care, upkeep of home, cooking, medication administration, shopping, appointments, exercise, socialisation and helping to take care of her dogs. So, liking dogs is essential.

In house training is provided. Client uses a wheelchair when out but has walking ability in the house.

Client has her own car that the carer will use to transport her so, a clean driving licence is essential.

Initial phone interview held first prior to offer of an interview in person.

 

There is a genuine occupational requirement for the holder of this post to be male/female in accordance with the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 and Equality Act 2010 schedule 9 paragraphs 1 – 4.

This vacancy will close as soon as a suitable candidate is appointed.

At the time of starting their employment, the successful candidate must have permission to work in the U.K.