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Evening Personal Assistant Wanted LRES8657

Job details
Posting date: 10 July 2025
Salary: £15.01 per hour
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 09 August 2025
Location: St. Leonards-On-Sea, East Sussex
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Independent Lives
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: LRES8657

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Summary

Evening Personal Assistant Wanted

Ref: LRES8657

Location: Saint Leonards-on-sea

Details
This role is to support a Man

Drivers licence required: Yes

Own vehicle needed: Yes

Employment status:
employed

Hours per week:
Hours: 5:30 PM – 10:00 PM, Monday to Sunday (part-time/full-time available) Job share please apply for any days that you are available for

Hourly pay rate:
£15.01

We are looking for a PA who can support a friendly 28-year-old man with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in the evenings.

Duties include personal care, PEG feeding, and tracheostomy support (training provided). He uses a BiPAP, cough assist, and suction machine.

Must be reliable, caring, and over 25 with a clean driving record.


Duties include:
- Medication prompting/administering
- Personal grooming
- Eating and drinking assistance
- Moving and handling
- Clinical tasks
- Other relevant duties as required
- Dressing / undressing
- Bathroom assistance

Candidate qualities:
- Respectful of the employer's privacy and confidentiality
- Reliable with good timekeeping
- Able to both follow instructions and work on own initiative
- Hygienic, tidy and well organised
- Fit and healthy to undertake the required duties
- Patient and possess excellent interpersonal skills
- Honest and cheerful
- Able to speak and read English to a reasonable standard
- Must be comfortable with pets
- Able to always work to high standards of health & safety

Additional requirements
Non-smoker due to medical reasons, Vulnerable to the risk of infection and disease transmission

Notes:
All applicants must have the right to work in the UK and be willing to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check if required.

Please note, if you are successful in your application for this position, you will be either engaged directly or employed by the individual employer and not by Independent Lives. The role may be offered on an employed or self-employed basis, depending on the suitability and agreement with the employer. If the role is employed, you will be entitled to holiday pay and issued an employment contract.

*Exemption for gender is claimed under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9

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