Job title: Personal assistant (PA) Reporting to: parent
Location: LS6 Headingley Leeds
Job purpose:
We are looking for a PA for our lively active 18 year old Autistic son. The job will require someone to take him to activities such as the trampoline park, to the park or on the bus to various locations.
Our son needs constant supervision as he has little awareness of danger. He will require supervision when going to the toilet but is physically able.
Type of person that you/they are looking for:
We are looking for an enthusiastic, energic person who is honest, reliable and friendly.
Hours of work: 9 hours per week during term time (3 hours in the week – usually in the evening - and 6 hours at the weekend – usually during the day)
15 hours per week in the school holidays (9 hours in the week – usually during the day - and 6 hours at the weekend – usually during the day)
Rate of pay: £12.60 per hour in the week and £15.69 per hour at the weekend.
Please email jeniwilkinson70@hotmail.co.uk with your CV
Leeds DP and PA Support Hub are a Leeds City Council team supporting individuals in receipt of the Direct Payment package.
Our Independent Living Teams support disabled people of all ages to take control of any help they need with personal care, daily living tasks and getting out and about in their community. This includes supporting people to recruit, manage and pay their own support workers, usually called Personal Assistants (PAs). Employing PAs enables our customers to choose who they want to provide their support and how and when the support is provided, to suit their and their families' lifestyles.
Our customers include individual disabled and older people, parents with disabled children and carers of disabled adults.
Leeds CIL provides a full payroll service to individual employers of Personal Assistants. Their dedicated team of Finance Support Workers currently support over 1,000 individual employers to pay their PAs every month.