Part Time, Live Out, Family PA, Harpenden, Hertfordshire

A fabulous Family PA role has become available for an experienced person to help look after a friendly family of five: Mum, Dad and three happy and active girls aged 11, 9 and 5. The family lives in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. They are looking for a proactive and friendly person, who will help keep them organised and on top of daily life.

You will be required to work for 20 hours each week. Monday-Friday, four hours each day would work well. Exact hours can be mutually agreed.

This is mainly a housekeeping role, allowing the parents to spend more time with their growing children. However, a lover of children would be ideal, to occasionally pick up from school, play games and do crafts, oversee homework etc. There could be additional hours on offer for evening babysitting – these hours would be mutually agreed and paid as overtime.

The household duties will include:

• Family friendly meal planning and cooking (homemade as often as possible)
• Family laundry
• Keeping the house running smoothly between cleans
• Keeping the children’s areas tidy and organised
• Making sure lunchboxes, uniforms, sports kits, etc are ready for the following day
• Overseeing grocery shopping (planning meals, placing orders, unloading food, buying extras)
• Running errands (extra food shopping, dry cleaning, post office, etc)
• Managing school admin, researching activities, etc

The ideal candidate will be proactive, organised, and a competent cook, as well as a strong communicator so that everyone knows what’s going on. Although not essential, if you do drive, you should be a careful and confident driver with a clean licence and your own fully insured car. Duty mileage will be paid.

The family is looking for an energetic and self‑motivated person, with lots of common sense – someone who is adaptable and happy to muck in. The candidate will be warm, honest and fun – a pleasant person to have around this friendly family home.

Minimum experience level for this job: Two years

Details of any training needed: Enhanced DBS (update) and Paediatric First Aid

Details of any qualifications needed: Childcare if possible, but housekeeping experience essential

Days required: Monday – Friday

Contracted hours: Four hours each day, to be mutually agreed (20 hours/week)

Pets in the home: Yes – two cats

Driving required: Not essential

Job Start Date: ASAP

Pay: £20,800 gross per annum / mutually agreed overtime to be paid at £20 gross per hour

This is a permanent job.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive, you will only be contacted for shortlisting and interview if you meet our client’s suitability requirements.

For all roles with children and the vulnerable you must have an up-to-date enhanced DBS certificate which is registered on the update service, a 12 hour Paediatric First Aid Certificate and a minimum of two professional referees who are happy for you to share their contact details to our recruiters. One of your references must be your current or last employer and both references must be immediately contactable.

We also recommend that you have appropriate professional insurance.

We support the principle of Equality and Diversity in employment wholeheartedly and oppose all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.