Personal Assistant (16 Hours)
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Personal Assistant (16 Hours)
Location:Community based to travel throughout Rotherham
Responsible to: Operations Manager
Hours per week: 16 hours per week basic contract. Available to work between the hours of 9am & 4pm Monday – Friday but these can be flexible and negotiable. Please ring for further information about the hours.
Salary: AUKR Scale 9 £12.21 per hour plus travel time and mileage costs
Closing Date: Ongoing
Interviews: TBC
About the role
We are looking for people with the enthusiasm, commitment and dedication to contribute to the excellence of our existing service. The successful candidate will provide an accessible, high quality service supporting older people to remain independent within their own home and community.
About you
Are you:
- Skilled and enthusiastic about caring for others?
- Patient and enjoy supporting older people in their own home and community?
Community based travel throughout Rotherham, working to individual care plans, risk assessments, maintaining accurate records in line with Age UK Rotherham standards, basic household duties including cleaning, shopping, laundry etc, providing a high quality service to suit the ever changing needs of the older person for example, support with meal preparation, escort to appointments, encourage to join in their local community and activities, providing companionship to alleviate social isolation and loneliness, continuing to promote independence, confidence within the person's home, working as part of a team to ensure continuity to aid the review and monitoring process
Do you want to join our experienced, flexible and dedicated team? If you think this role could be right for you take a look at the job description and person specification to understand more about what we’re looking for in our Personal Assistants.
How to apply
If you’re interested in applying, download an application pack below or email hannah.massey@ageukrotherham.org for an application form.
For enquiries about this role call us on 01709 786 955
Instructions for returning application forms.
Our Application forms are available in Microsoft Word or PDF format. Unfortunately at the moment they cannot be completed online.
If you have Microsoft Word, Works or any compatible editor you can download the word document, complete it and email it back to the address on the form.
If you are unable to email the forms back they can be printed and completed manually then posted back to us at the address on the form.
PA 16 hours Job Description April 24.doc
APPLICATION FORM Personal Assistant 16 hours_2022.pdf
Personal Assistant - Zero hours
JOB PURPOSE
To provide practical help and assistance to older people enabling them to live independently within their own home and supporting them to access their local community.
RESPONSIBE TO: CSS Operations Manager
LOCATION: Throughout the Rotherham Borough
HOURS: Zero hours contract. Mon – Fri between hours of 9 – 4
SALARY: Scale 9 £12.21 plus mileage and travel time
Roles & Responsibilities
- Service Delivery
- To follow support plans and risk assessments to ensure the safe and effective delivery of the service, by providing household duties, including meal preparation and shopping and prompt Health & wellbeing of the service user.
- Provide a high quality service encouraging independence where appropriate to the service user
- To support the service user to access primary care and support with appointments.
- Support the service user to be less lonely/isolated by supporting to attend community activities and groups and taking them on outings and trips.
- To be proactive as ambassadors of Age UK Rotherham offering information in relation to and providing support to access other Age UK services
- To liaise with appropriate staff re changes or issues regarding their service user.
- Liaise with family members and other professionals as directed by manager.
- Initial planning of cover for own service users during holidays
- Reports and monitoring
- Complete and submit relevant service user information in line with procedures and deadlines to aid the smooth running of the service.
- Provide and receive written information regarding service users conditions and their abilities.
- To continually monitor and review service users to ensure the support plans suit any changing need and alert manager to any changes.
3. Health & Safety
- Ensure the service is delivered in line with each service users individual support plan and risk assessments.
- Report any Health & Safety incidents or issues promptly to the operations manager using AUKR procedure
4. Finance
- Be responsible for handling small amounts of money, collecting appropriate fees for service and issuing receipts whilst following Age UK Rotherham’s financial procedures
5. Personal Development
- Undertake training as required by AUKR and for personal self development.
Equal Opportunities
Act in accordance with the ACR Equal Opportunities Policy, which is designed to prevent discrimination of any kind, and ensure equality of opportunity is a key principle that is continually embraced.
This post is subject to an appropriate DBS check
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For more information email Hannah Massey or complete the attached application form and email to apply. hannah.massey@ageukrotherham.org