Personal Assistant​/TN​/PER

Responsibilities

• Providing support with daily living tasks.
• Supporting him with encouragement in gaining independence.
• Enabling him to interact socially in his community.
• Providing support him whilst shopping and attending activities of interest.
• Supporting him to develop independent living skills.
• To provide companionship in his home, including engaging in conversation with him and providing him with social interaction.
• Encouraging him to attend appointments.
• Ensuring his safety at all times during your working hours.
• To carry out any other reasonable tasks that are requested by the employer during your working hours.
• To ensure compliance with Data Protection Act.
• Be mindful of safeguarding issues, and feedback any concerns to Carmarthenshire County Council immediately on .
• Be responsible for contacting the GP, Social Worker or Local Authority should the employer need medical assistance.

• Ability to develop supportive and caring relationship with employer.
• To undertake all duties in a friendly and helpful manner.
• Able to contact people on behalf of the employer when necessary.

Working in employer’s homes and supporting them to access facilities and community activities.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience &

Skills:

• Caring, patient and friendly.
• Responsible, reliable and honest.
• Proactive and self‑motivated with the ability to work on own initiative.
• Has good local knowledge of the area where the employer lives.
• Good time‑keeping and flexibility around working patterns and duties as determined by the employer’s requirements.
• Ability to keep simple records such as time recording.
• Good communicator able to talk to people on behalf of the employer when required.
• Able to develop long‑term supportive and consistent relationships with employers.
• A full, clean driving licence and use of a car is likely to be required.
• This is determined by the needs of the employer and whether you live within walking distance.
• You must be prepared to have business use on your vehicle insurance to be able to use the vehicle within work hours.
• Be prepared to undergo training in order to best meet the employers need.

Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) – a DBS / criminal record check will be required for this post. This will be completed on acceptance of the job offer.

This position was posted by the Direct Payments Support service on behalf of the Direct Payment Recipient. The Direct Payment Recipient is the employer. Carmarthenshire County Council supports them to fulfil their employer obligations.