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  • SDS Options Fife - Personal Assistant x 2 posts (SDS/FS/270029)

    Created: 28/02/2023, Updated: 01/03/2023
    News/Events Category: Job Vacancies


    Post: Personal Assistant x 2 posts

    Reference: SDS/FS/270029

    Hours: Personal care 8 hours per week each

    Salary: £10.50 per hour

    Location: Burntisland

    Contract: Permanent

    Qualifications required: PVG required - This role requires an enhanced check through PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups). Hoist training/ experience essential

    Essential requirements: Kind, caring and a good sense of humour

    SDS Options Fife is looking for personal assistants to help a 64-year-old female with her personal care. The individual has Muscular Sclerosis (MS) and requires assistance to transfer; get up, washed, and dressed using a hoist and using the toilet.  She would need help with light housework where wiping around the room used would be helpful. This lovely individual requires assistance to get up in the morning, showered and changed.

    Applicants must have a caring attitude, a good sense of humour, and be reliable with a positive and flexible approach to work. Having experience with hoist use and slings is essential.

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

    Duties and Responsibilities

    • Provision of personal care
    • Assisting client to shower; dry; change clothes.
    • Assistance with keeping the house tidy

    For more information, check out this Person Specification. To apply for this post please submit a copy of your CV quoting the job reference number above by:

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

    Closing date: Apply any-time

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




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