Personal Care Assistant

Personal Assistant Vacancy Job Purpose and Work Duties

Job purpose :

To support my child within the home or accessing social opportunities within the community.

My child is in his 3rd year  is autistic, non-verbal, and would need support with personal care needs. He is a very happy, cheerful boy and loves music, water and interacting with adults. He needs a little support with walking / steps, and does have a wheelchair for longer walks or outings.

• Identify local social activities
• Motivating and encouraging them to take part and try new things
• Helping them to develop social skills
• Support in the home to do different activities.
• Access his community and community activities.
• Supporting the child during family outings.
• Personal care
• Transporting child to and from identified activities

• Establishing and maintaining effective communication with the child and their parents, maintaining confidentiality.
• Always ensuring the safety of the child

• Imagination in relation to activities to undertake
• Good sense of humour
• Flexible, reliable and honest
• Physically fit, agile and energetic
• Understanding of autism essential
• Ability to utilise a range of communication methods, including signs and visual prompts
• DBS Check will be completed

Location – Medway

Number of PA roles available - 1

£12.21 per hour

Term Time – 6 hours

Non-Term Time - 8 hours

‘Please note this advert has been placed on behalf of one of our customers. Should your application be successful and you are offered the position, you will be directly employed by the customer and not People Plus’