Ref: DB/05/08

Job Description

Job title:
Personal Assistant

Hours:
Post 1: 7 hours per week.
Post 2: Up to 5 weekends away per year (Fri – Sun).

*Feel free to apply for both posts.

Rates of Pay: £8.00 per hour, excluding breaks (Post 1 & 2).
£50.00 per Overnight (Post 2).


Purpose of job:
I am a young disabled man and currently living at home with my parents and attending college during the week. I am looking to employ a personal assistant(s) to enable me to access activities and assist me with some personal care tasks. I am very independent and it is important to me that my personal assistant respects my role as their employer and is able to work under my direction.

Post 1:
You will need to be available on Friday mornings 9am – 11am to assist me with personal care and also for a period of five hours one day per week for doing activities. More about the role:

Personal Care
- Enter my bedroom to wake me up with a good morning and most
likely a hot drink.
- You will check my ventilator which I have been using
overnight and switch it off.
- You will then assist me with washing, toileting and dressing.
- You will assist me into my wheelchair.
- You will help me to prepare my breakfast or fix me another
hot drink.
- You will make my bed and wash my breakfast dishes.

Activities
- You will be driving my adapted vehicle.
- You will assist me with transfers in and out of the vehicle.
- We will go to places of my choice including the Metro Centre
where I like to meet my friends, accompany me to the pub or
on occasion, come with me to see Newcastle United play.

Post 2:
I play for a wheelchair football team and this takes me up and down the country to play in tournaments. This is usually 5 times per year between October and May. You would be my main source of support over the weekend and I will need assistance with the following:

- You will be driving my adapted vehicle.
- You will assist me with transfers in and out of the vehicle.
- You will assist me with all of my personal care, incl.
washing, dressing, toileting and getting in and out of bed.
- You will be sharing a hotel room with me because I may need
to be turned during the night.
- You will accompany me during the day to the tournament.
- You will have regular breaks and free time.


Training:
There are no formal qualifications required to do this job; for the most part the tasks and assistance involved can be learned through the personal assistant and I working together.

This post is also subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau check, which will be carried out only if you are offered the post.


Person Specification
To be my personal assistant you should be:

• able to drive and willing to drive my adapted vehicle.
• male or female.
• interested in Sport.
• energetic and enthusiastic.
• open-minded.
• reliable.
• punctual.
• like dogs.
• sociable and friendly.
• aware of and have some understanding of disability.
• experience in a similar role is preferred but training will
be provided.
• willing to do personal care tasks.
• flexible.
• able to commit yourself to at least one month’s notice
before leaving the job, except in extreme circumstances.
• able to commence in post in June 2008.


CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 21st May 2008, 3pm.

INTERVIEWS: Wednesday 28th May.

Please call Lindsey for an application pack and an informal chat on 0191 2840480 or email: Lindseypeek@disabilitynorth.org.uk.

Contact details

• Email: lindseypeek@disabilitynorth.org.uk

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