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SDS Options Fife - Personal Assistant SDS/BD/069
Created: 02/10/2021Post: Personal Assistant SDS/BD/069
Hours: 11 hours per week
Salary: £9.50 per hour
Location: Cowdenbeath
Contract: Permanent
One Personal Assistant is required to work with an existing PA team member, in a busy family home to provide care and support to a non-verbal teenage girl with complex additional support needs. I like singing, engaging with people 1:1 and Justin Fletcher something special music is a favourite.
Duties to include the provision of all personal care to the client including showering, drying, dressing and she will be hoisting our client into her bed/chair as client is in a wheelchair. Taking client to social activities when required.
Applicants must have a caring attitude, be reliable with a positive and flexible approach to work.
Applicants should ideally hold a clean driver’s license, have childcare experience with other special needs adults/children and be non-smokers.
This role requires an enhanced check through PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups).
Working Pattern: The morning hours would be approx 07:00 - 08:00 and evening (2 hours shift) - time would vary between 17:00 - 18:00 start depending on whether our daughter was attending out of school club that day.
Experience Required: Previous experience of working within a support/care background and with adult/children with additional support needs and be non-smokers. Applicants should ideally hold a clean driver’s licence.
For further information and to obtain a copy of the application pack for this post please click here or alternatively e-mail [email protected] and please state PA or relief PA/quote reference - SDS/BD/069 in the subject header.
To apply for this post please submit a copy of your application by 08 October 2021. You can e-mail applications to [email protected] or post to SDS Options (Fife), DPHS Fife, Caledonia House, Pentland Park, Saltire Centre, Glenrothes, Fife, KY6 2AQ