Job Title: Personal Assistant
Hours of Work: 12:00 – 18.00 hrs every Saturday or Sunday
Rate of Pay: £13.23 per hour
Location: Lofthouse, WF3
Please contact Natalie on w27nat@gmail.com to discuss if interested
Purpose of the Role
To take care of all needs of Sid who is 15 years old. Sid has Cerebral Palsy, Learning Difficulties, Sensory Processing Disorder and Autism. The role is to enable his parents to have respite on a weekend (start times are negotiable between employer and employee to allow a good work life balance for the PA).
He will need assisting with his personal hygiene he is toilet trained but needs assistance and chooses to wear pull ups more out of comfort rather than need. He needs encouraging to wash his hands and also encouraging him to use the toilet.
You will be mainly working in Sid’s home as he doesn’t like to leave the house but we are working towards getting him into the community so when he is ready you will be expected to go along with him and another support worker to explore the area and beyond. We would like you to encourage him as much as possible to try get him to play outside in the garden. We also have 2 family dogs which ideally I would like to stay at the house also but they should remain at the property and garden (no walks).
Sid’s interests are mainly his computer and his kindle but he loves anything to do with the queen, houses of parliament and doors and lifts, Big Brother and YouTube.
Sid chooses to stay on his computer most of the day and wears his pj’s most of the time but will get dressed if he decides he is going to go out away from the house and garden and will use a wheelchair when away from the house.
Supervision
Sids Personal Assistant will be directed and accountable to Natalie (his mum) or Chris (his dad) in her absence in all aspects of their work.
Main Duties
1. Assist with nappy changing and toilet training
2. Help with dressing if needed
3. Give snacks and water/juice when required
4. To encourage Sid to play outdoors and encourage play away from his computer.
Other Duties
1. To feed the dogs at 2pm if required.
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.