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Personal Assistants GN8321a

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 03 Medi 2025
Cyflog: £16 yr awr
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: Starting pay rate of £16.00 ph subject to experience/rising after a successful probation period
Oriau: Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau: 03 Hydref 2025
Lleoliad: Eastbourne, East Sussex
Gweithio o bell: Ar y safle yn unig
Cwmni: Independent Lives
Math o swydd: Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd: GN8321a

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Personal Assistants

Ref: GN8321a

Location: Eastbourne

Details
This role is to support a Woman

Drivers licence required: Yes

Hours per week:
- Weekends: 7am–7pm (Willing to consider 6–12 hour shifts, alternate weekends, or flexible arrangements that provide adequate coverage)
- Working 2:1 during the day
- Additional bank shifts available to cover staff sickness and holidays (Please note: familiarity with the individual is essential before covering as bank staff)
- Overnights (sleep in) shifts also available to cover holiday & sickness

Hourly pay rate:
Starting pay rate of £16.00 per hour subject to experience rising after a successful period of probation & training
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We are looking for enthusiastic, engaging, and experienced Personal Assistants to join a small, dedicated care team supporting a 30-year-old woman with Cerebral Palsy, scoliosis, and dystonia in her own fully adapted home, working 2:1 during the day.

She has a happy, easy-going personality and enjoys music, shopping, fashion, cooking, films, art, and creative activities. She attends a local Leisure & Skills Centre and lives a full and active life. Though non-verbal, she communicates effectively in her own unique ways, and forming a strong rapport is a key part of this role.

This is a highly rewarding, person-centred position where your support can make a genuine difference.

Duties include:
- Personal grooming
- Dressing / undressing
- Bathroom assistance
- Undertake all personal care
- Give feed via gastrostomy button
- Provide ongoing entertainment and stimulation
- Medication preparation & administration

Candidate qualities:
- Must be able to demonstrate experience of supporting someone with complex & physical needs
- Have experience of using specialist equipment such as overhead ceiling hoist, wheelchair and standing frame
- Will be able to support M to participate in a range of activities in her home and outside
- Have ability to speak & understand English to communicate with M, who is non verbal but has her own ways of communicating
- Reliable, flexible & committed to the role.
- Car driver preferred and willing to drive M’s wheelchair accessible vehicle

Additional requirements
Non-smoker preferred or someone willing to refrain from smoking during working hours

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.

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.

Please note: If you do not hear back within three weeks of applying, unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion.

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