Action on Disability
Personal Assistant – Greater London
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting individuals in their own home or community
- Managing bookings and appointments
- Organizing paperwork
- Accompanying to educational, training, work, social, physical, or volunteering activities
- Using community services
- Accompanying with shopping
- Supporting family and personal relationships
- Supporting with childcare responsibilities
- Household cleaning and maintaining a safe home environment
- Medication monitoring and prompting
- Assistance with dressing, meal preparation, eating, drinking, washing, showering, and personal care (not all clients require all these tasks)
Skills and Expertise
- Good listening and communication skills
- Basic literacy and numeracy skills
- Experience working with disabled or vulnerable people
- Respectful and compassionate care
- Reliability and time management skills
- Punctuality
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Training in assisting and moving people, basic life support, fire safety, food safety, health and safety, infection prevention and control, medication management, safeguarding
Job Facilities/Benefits
- Competitive salary of 14.00 – 15.00 per hour
- Flexibility in working hours (3 hours to 40 hours per week)
- Potential for ongoing employment
- Statutory employment rights and benefits applicable to employees
- Paid by a payroll service company, usually 4-weekly or monthly