Support Worker/Personal Care Assistant BRR9009 in Haywards Heath

Location: Haywards Heath

Employment status: Employed

Hours per week: Afternoon weekdays preferred, apart from Tuesdays

Hourly pay rate: £13.60

This role is to support a 66-year-old man requiring support with domestic tasks such as tidying/organising his flat, managing household paperwork and bills, prompting to reorder medication, reminding with personal care tasks, and accessing the community. He is a musician who enjoys jazz, reggae, and ska music, plays harmonica and guitar, enjoys walking, and uses a walking stick and an electric bicycle.

Responsibilities:

• Administration
• Housekeeping
• Companionship
• Sorting/clearing tasks in the home
• Reminders with personal care tasks
• Accessing the community
• Other relevant duties as required

Candidate Qualities:

• Respectful of the employer's privacy and confidentiality
• Reliable with good timekeeping
• Able to both follow instructions and work on own initiative
• Hygienic, tidy and well organised
• Fit and healthy to undertake the required duties
• Patient and possess excellent interpersonal skills
• Honest and cheerful
• Able to speak and read English to a reasonable standard
• Must be comfortable with pets
• Able to always work to high standards of health & safety
• Have an understanding of depression or a willingness to learn

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK and be willing to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check if required. If you are successful in your application for this position, you will be either engaged directly or employed by the individual employer and not by Independent Lives. The role may be offered on an employed or self-employed basis, depending on the suitability and agreement with the employer. If the role is employed, you will be entitled to holiday pay and issued an employment contract. Please note: If you do not hear back within three weeks of applying, unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion.