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  • SDS Options Fife - Personal Assistant (SDS/JR/091)

    Created: 14/09/2022

    Post: Personal Assistant (SDS/JR/091)

    Hours: Flexible – Mornings approx. 08:00 – 09:30. (M-F) More hours available per week to provide respite sessions to allow the wife to go out and about/see to personal needs.

    Salary: £10.50 per hour

    Location: Cardenden, Fife

    Contract: Permanent

    Useful qualifications: Previous experience of providing personal care, preferred but not essential.

    Additional information: This role requires an enhanced check through PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups).

    SDS Options Fife is currently recruiting for a Personal Assistant to assist a fun-loving, 77-year-old gentleman with Dementia. He has a great sense of humour and enjoys music, a blether and a good joke or two.

    He is living at home supported by his wife who is essentially looking for another pair of hands to help her with:

    • Assisting with getting out of bed and ready for the day
    • Provision of personal care inclusive of getting showered, washed and dressed
    • Assisting with preparation of breakfast
    • Respite session could involve some music/movement activity
    • Occasional Sunday to allow church attendance

    About you:

    • You must have a caring nature with an awareness of support required.
    • Respect dignity when assisting with personal care.
    • Be friendly and outgoing with a good sense of humour.

    To apply, please send your CV quoting the job reference number - SDS/JR/091 - by:

    E-mail: [email protected] or Post: SDS Options (Fife), DPHS Fife, Caledonia House, Pentland Park, Saltire Centre, Glenrothes, Fife, KY6 2AQ.

    The closing date for application is 31 October 2022.

    SDS Options Fife is advertising this vacancy on behalf of its client and is not the employer and cannot endorse any applicant and/or employer.




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