Personal Assistant or Cover with elderly care experience
| Posting date: | 16 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £13.85 per hour |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2025 |
| Location: | Stepney Green E1 |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Private household |
| Job type: | Contract |
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Summary
Job Description for PERSONAL ASSISTANT or COVER PERSONAL ASSISTANT with elderly care experience
Job Title: Personal Assistant /Cover Personal Assistant with elderly care experience
Place of work: At home and at places in the community
Rate of pay: £13.85 per hour
Hours of work: 2 hours per week (or as Cover)
Purpose of job: Support with ‘enabling’ to continue to live as independently as possible
About the client
The client is a 94-year-old man living in his daughter’s one-bedroom flat in Stepney Green, London. His daughter acts as his main informal carer. The client speaks with his daughter online daily and requires interaction with providers during periods when she is away to help her to continue to support her father, particularly with any household or administrative issues.
The client’s daughter will support with various tasks which include and is not limited to: managing bills and correspondence, booking and attending appointments, general shopping including groceries and food preparation, providing day to day prompts and encouragement to her father such as wearing his hearing aids and his neck pendant with a personal alarm. The client does not go out into the community but may go outside, with assistance, onto his balcony on a pleasant day.
Tasks for the Personal Assistant:
• Build and sustain good interaction and communication with the client and his daughter
• Supervise safe movement around the home in a secure manner and possibly sitting out on the balcony
• Ensure food and drink safety, such as fresh food has not gone off, fresh water is readily available and the client is drinking regularly
• Check comfortability in own home, including indoor temperature and heating settings, open/closed windows, wearing appropriate clothing, telecare pendant and hearing aids (especially changing hearing aid batteries), locking the front door
• Noticing when cleaning is needed and ensuring there are cleaning products available for the cleaner, so that the client’s daughter may prompt and supervise the cleaner to carry out jobs they might not do on their own initiative
• General household maintenance not done by the carers, such as changing hoover bags, adjusting clocks, occasional replacement of accessible light bulbs and batteries, making sure appliances and timers are secure and functioning correctly
• Oversee incontinence management and support with taking medication / addressing any medical needs the client may have
• Take him to appointments if needed and possible within the timeframe available, using transport
• To immediately raise any concerns about safety or well-being with the client’s daughter, and to take appropriate action in case of an emergency
• Communicate on WhatsApp with the client’s daughter regularly
• To keep appropriate records and receipts of activities and monies spent
• Respect privacy and maintain confidentiality at all times regarding the client's personal life and what happens in his home
• Enable the client to carry out any other chosen activity, whether inside or outside his home, by carrying out any other requests reasonably made.
Job Title: Personal Assistant /Cover Personal Assistant with elderly care experience
Place of work: At home and at places in the community
Rate of pay: £13.85 per hour
Hours of work: 2 hours per week (or as Cover)
Purpose of job: Support with ‘enabling’ to continue to live as independently as possible
About the client
The client is a 94-year-old man living in his daughter’s one-bedroom flat in Stepney Green, London. His daughter acts as his main informal carer. The client speaks with his daughter online daily and requires interaction with providers during periods when she is away to help her to continue to support her father, particularly with any household or administrative issues.
The client’s daughter will support with various tasks which include and is not limited to: managing bills and correspondence, booking and attending appointments, general shopping including groceries and food preparation, providing day to day prompts and encouragement to her father such as wearing his hearing aids and his neck pendant with a personal alarm. The client does not go out into the community but may go outside, with assistance, onto his balcony on a pleasant day.
Tasks for the Personal Assistant:
• Build and sustain good interaction and communication with the client and his daughter
• Supervise safe movement around the home in a secure manner and possibly sitting out on the balcony
• Ensure food and drink safety, such as fresh food has not gone off, fresh water is readily available and the client is drinking regularly
• Check comfortability in own home, including indoor temperature and heating settings, open/closed windows, wearing appropriate clothing, telecare pendant and hearing aids (especially changing hearing aid batteries), locking the front door
• Noticing when cleaning is needed and ensuring there are cleaning products available for the cleaner, so that the client’s daughter may prompt and supervise the cleaner to carry out jobs they might not do on their own initiative
• General household maintenance not done by the carers, such as changing hoover bags, adjusting clocks, occasional replacement of accessible light bulbs and batteries, making sure appliances and timers are secure and functioning correctly
• Oversee incontinence management and support with taking medication / addressing any medical needs the client may have
• Take him to appointments if needed and possible within the timeframe available, using transport
• To immediately raise any concerns about safety or well-being with the client’s daughter, and to take appropriate action in case of an emergency
• Communicate on WhatsApp with the client’s daughter regularly
• To keep appropriate records and receipts of activities and monies spent
• Respect privacy and maintain confidentiality at all times regarding the client's personal life and what happens in his home
• Enable the client to carry out any other chosen activity, whether inside or outside his home, by carrying out any other requests reasonably made.