Care Assistant English Literature Student

Overview

Are you a recent graduate or someone with a passion for making a positive impact? Ask Jules are recruiting on behalf of our client, a university student. Our client is looking for a team of like-minded care assistants to support her with personal care and daily living at her home in Manchester during university holidays. This is a fantastic opportunity to help make a positive impact on a young adult's life.

Care/Personal Assistant

Manchester, M20 6SS

21st March 2026

Term Time, (28 weeks a year) / 12h shifts including a mixture of days / nights

£16.00 per hour

Care experience is not essential for this role as full training will be provided.

Our client is a first-year English Language & Literature university student at Oxford University. She is a full-time electric wheelchair user and requires support in all aspects of her daily life. She is looking for a team of PAs to support her at home in Manchester during holidays. She is passionate about reading and finding connections between texts. Her favourite authors are JRR Tolkien, Jane Austen and the Brontës.

She enjoys cooking and experimenting with new recipes. She loves singing and hopes to join the college choir. She is adventurous and looking forward to exploring all aspects of university life, including travel opportunities, academic events & debates, and parties.

As written by our client... I need my personal assistants to be responsible, flexible and friendly. I want you to help me live independently and have the normal university experience. I am bilingual (speaking English and German) and lived in Berlin for a year with my family when younger. I enjoy visiting new places and I am really excited by the prospect of moving to an entirely new city.

I want to make the most of my experience in Oxford going to the cinema/theatre, bars and clubs, and participating in university societies as well as focusing on my academic studies. I dont want my personal care needs to get in the way of this. I want us to have a good working relationship and be able to talk through any issues if they arise.

Im really looking forward to being at Oxford University and I hope you enjoy the Harry Potter vibe as much as me.

You will provide our client's health and social support. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a positive difference to somebody else’s life and to assist our client to achieve her goals and ambitions. This job offers meaning and job satisfaction.

This role goes far beyond simply care work and includes all the fun things you’d expect a first-year university student to be doing, like getting out and socialising, whether that be cinema, going out for meals or other general activities!

• Assistance with personal care
• Domestic duties / cooking, cleaning & shopping
• Accompanying our client to appointments and events
• Supporting around university and beyond
• Support with travelling and accessing venues

• Friendly, chatty & responsible
• Physically fit, not over bearing, organised & respectful of our clients privacy
• Have the ability to work on your own initiative
• Have a good sense of humour
• Able to follow instructions
• Be calm under pressure
• Have good and clear communication skills
• Be fluent in English
• Be clean and tidy in both your appearance and ways.
• Hold a clean driving licence (preferred but not essential)

If you would like to apply for this position, please describe your interests in your covering letter.

Ask Jules is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults. All applicants must be willing to undergo the appropriate screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Ask Jules are agents for university students with physical disabilities who choose to employ Personal Assistants to provide their student support and personal care.

Hourly Care Assistant for English Literature Student Manchester