Hours: 8-16 hours per week. Times & days to be discussed, weekends minimal.
Pay: age related national minimum wage+ up to £12.90 per hour
Holidays: 5.6 weeks per year pro rata. Most bank holidays honoured.
Area: South Shields
Are you a PA that has the savvy to help me live independently to improve my quality of life? As a power-chair user with a rare muscle wasting disease, to achieve a decent life I need a PA that is plugged-in to varying physical capabilities, pain, and fatigue.
Also, as a PA you’ll understand, for everyone’s ‘needs’ to be met, enjoyment is an essential part. So do us both a favour and grab an interview for this life-enabling post in South Shields. If successful you will get paid, feel good about what you’re achieving as a PA – training available – and the knock-on effect is that you will form part of making lives much better.
Requirements:
- DBS checked
- References needed
- A car owner/driving licence preferred.
- Experience of medication administration preferable – training can be given.
- Assisting with personal care.
- Meal preparation, shopping and household duties.
- Attending Hospital, Physio sessions, and hydrotherapy.
- Enabling social activities where possible.
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.