Personal Assistant Dorset/240426

The Role

• To provide light-touch, person-centred support, to the client who lives independently and works locally. The individual has a learning disability and epilepsy and benefits from reassurance, support with confidence-building tasks, and help to manage certain practical aspects of day-to-day life. The PA will promote the client’s independence, dignity, and wellbeing.

Main Duties

• Provide reassurance and support following seizures, ensuring they feels safe and steady.
• Support them with reading, understanding, and responding to letters, bills, and basic correspondence.
• Assist with confidence-building tasks such as planning simple journeys, attending appointments, or accessing community activities.
• Promote healthy routines and offer light support around meal choices (promoting them to cook using ingredients rather than ready meals would be advantageous).
• Encourage and enable them to stay organized with appointments, reminders, and household tasks.
• Support safe community engagement, such as accompanying them on local outings where reassurance may be needed. Support using public transport.
• Provide friendly emotional support to help them to manage anxiety relating to bills, housing, and health.

Personal Qualities and Attributes required

• Respectful of confidentiality and privacy
• Responsible, reliable and trustworthy
• Respectful of dignity and independence
• Good communication skills and social skills
• Punctual, reliable and flexible
• Ability to work on your own initiative
• Understanding, adaptable and organised
• Calm, patient and reassuring manner
• Reliable and able to promote independence
• Understanding of Epilepsy (training will be given)
• Experience supporting adults with learning disabilities
• Local knowledge of Blandford Forum
• Driver, with use of own car and business insurance

FOR EMPLOYED

Please note that this role may be subject to a DBS check, your employer may also ask for you to supply references.

You must be able to prove the right to work in the UK. No sponsorships are available.

FOR SE

Please note that the person undertaking this role may be requested to supply evidence of DBS clearance and/or references where appropriate.

Hours

4 hours per week with the potential to increase to 10 hours per week and to be ideally worked at weekends and mornings.

Pay

£17.50 per hour Employed

£20.00 per hour Self - Employed

Job Type

Part time

Please note, Compass Disability Services (Compass Independent Living Team) is a support, advisory and payroll service. We support people with a disability or long-term health condition to live independently and retain control of their lives within the community. We are not the person that you will work for. You will work for the individual or family that we are supporting.