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Individual Employer

Posted

25 days ago

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Job Title: Female* Personal Healthcare Assistant

Location: Haywards Heath

Hourly rate: £12.00 rising to £14.00ph once fully trained

Reference: LR6208

Hours/shifts: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday Saturday and Sunday mornings for 4 hours and up to 2 hours in the evenings. Actual shift times by mutual agreement Job share welcome

Summary

• I am a young woman in my thirties and live with my two indoor cats.

• I like to be independent but currently need a lot of support around my flat and with personal care including health care tasks due to several health issues after a rough couple of years.

• The job will involve helping with stoma care, tube feeding, medications, domestic tasks, accessing the community and most importantly helping me avoid hospital admissions.

Other Requirements

• "Exemption is claimed under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9."

• Must be comfortable with cats

• Non-smoker preferred or someone who is willing to refrain from smoking during work hours.

• Must be English speaking

• Must have a UK driving license

All applicants must be willing to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check

Successful applicants will be entitled to Holiday pay and will be issued employment contracts.

Description

Typical duties

Domestic duties to help keep employers environment clean and tidy - to include

* Light housework- hoovering, washing up, put washing on.

* All rubbish and recycling out

* Cat care

*Help with cooking

* Help organise paperwork

* Check for out of date food.

* Putting out clinical waste once a week

* Making up hot water bottles

* Changing the bed

* Make up fresh St Mark’s solution daily

Personal Care:

* Prepare medication for JEJ tube

* Run me a bath & wash hair when needed

* Help me dress and tidy bathroom from bath

* Stoma care

* Set up and connect me to my feed St Mark’s solution.

* Looking for signs of low blood sugar and testing to see if I’m having a hypo, then administering medication if needed

Social:

* Help getting to appointments & being an advocate

* Collecting medications from pharmacy

* Accessing the community Sunday shift will include accompanying me to wheelchair basketball

Person specification

The successful applicant will be:

• Respectful of the employer’s privacy and confidentiality

• Reliable with good time-keeping

• Able to both follow instructions and work on own initiative

• Hygienic, tidy minded and well organised

• Fit and healthy to undertake the required duties

• Patience and possess excellent interpersonal skills

• Honest and cheerful and kind

• Able to speak and read English fluently

• Legally permitted to work in the United Kingdom

• Able to work at all times to high standards of Health & Safety

Please note, if you are successful in your application for this position you will be employed directly by the individual employer and not Independent Lives

location

Haywards Heath, West Sussex