We are looking for a friendly, understanding personal assistant to support our daughter to help her build live skills and access community and leisure activities.
About the employer
· A happy teenager who loves Jigsaws, crystal art, games, puzzles and cooking. She also likes getting out and about in the community.
· She has a diagnosis of Autism.
· She struggles with communication and understanding the world around her and must always be supervised especially in the community. She does not require support with personal care needs.
Main duties
Social duties, support to:
· Develop life skills at home and in the community.
· Do hobbies such arts, crafts and cooking
Domestic duties - getting snacks after school and maybe lunch in the holidays.
Values, calm, reliable, punctual, adaptable, easy going, able to work alone, positive, willing to travel and has a good sense of humour.
What you can expect to receive
While you build your relationship parental support and guidance will be available.
Online training is available through the Leeds PA training hub covering:
· Moving and Handling
· Safeguarding
· First Aid Awareness
· Person Centred Care
Hours of work
Term Time: 4 hours a week during term time delivered as 2 x 2 blocks. This can be flexible but must have a regular pattern.
School Holidays: 8 hours a week. During the holidays the working time can be flexible.
Skills Essential:
· Confidentiality
· Good at building relationships
· Calm and positive outlook
· Good communicator
· Ability to pick up on behavioural ques
Preferred:
· A good listener
· Awareness of autism
· Driving licence
· Car and appropriate insurance
· Able to swim
· Computer literate
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.