Personal assistant required to work up to 18 hours per week at £9 per hour assisting a disabled woman in Belsize Park. This is likely to be 4 x 4 hour visits per week. She needs support in general domestic duties, managing paperwork and reducing her social isolation.
You need to:
• Have a good English vocabulary and at the very minimum, an ability to use spellchecker and know the difference between “you’re” and “your” and “they’re”, “their’ and “there”
• Have common sense and be able to pre-empt difficulties before they arise
• Be able to keep the PA User focused and on task so she doesn’t get distracted from the task at hand
• Actively listens and try to remember things
• Have initiative, a proactive attitude and excellent organisational skills
• See that something needs doing, take the initiative and do it.
The work is divided between admin assistance and general personal assistance:
• The admin part involves dealing with correspondence, setting up filing systems, writing lists, assistance with bills and finances, appointments.
• You need to be capable of a bit of mental juggling and awareness
• The personal assistance aspect involves motivating the PA User to wash/shower/bath, assisting in showering and hair washing. Other domestic duties: light household cleaning, some simple food preparation and encouragement to eat and drink, shopping or accompanying me out.