Job Title: Personal Care Assistants
Location: Penkridge
Salary: From £13.05 per hour with overtime available
Job type: Full time/Part time – Permanent
Select Lifestyles Limited was established in 2007, and we provide Specialist Support for individuals with additional needs. Our Service Users may be people living with Challenging
Behaviours, Adults living with Learning Disabilities, Physical Disabilities, Mental Health, Autism and Complex Health Needs such as Epilepsy and Acquired Brain Injuries.
The Role
We are currently recruiting for several experienced Personal Care Assistants to support our client located in Penkridge, Stafford, ST19. Our client has an active lifestyle so no two shifts will ever be the same. The role varies from accessing the community for fun activities including going swimming, the zoo or even Alton Towers!
In this role, you will be required to support our client who is semi-verbal and uses his own form of Makaton to communicate. He has cerebral palsy, autism and is wheelchair bound. He is looking for somebody to build a rapport with him and support him long-term. He is a charismatic young man with a bubbly personality looking for key, enthusiastic individuals to join his bespoke team!
The roles that we offer are extremely fulfilling and rewarding for the right candidates, and there will be lots to do and get involved in, working closely to achieve individual support plans outlined by Select Lifestyles Limited.
You’ll go home every single day knowing that you’ve helped make a difference in someone’s life, enabling and empowering vulnerable people toward achieving more and more independence and integration into their local communities.
Main Responsibilities
- Ensuring our infection control standards remain on high alert supporting him in his own home and out in the community.
- Supporting with aspects of personal care and ensuring that our client always has the best centred care.
- Embracing and fulfilling our company values to give every single client the support to live life to the full and as independently as possible.
- Keep accurate and detailed records of Daily Notes, Risk Assessments, Medication Administration Records and Accident and Incidents Reports.
- Liaise with Professionals, Service Users Families, our in-house Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner, Learning Disability Nurse and other Agencies when required.
The Ideal Candidate
- Full UK Driving Licence Required (Manual Desirable)
- You must be a compassionate, empathetic, and engaging person, that will always go that little bit further while helping and supporting others.
- Ideally you will already have up-to-date mandatory training qualifications, however, this is not necessary as we can provide full training.
Benefits
- 28 days of Annual Leave (Pro-Rata for Part time staff)
- Incredible company culture, and we are always raising money for charities, good causes and the local community.
- Give you real career progression opportunities.
- Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Recognition.
- Company pension
- Reward long-term staff with our 10 Year Loyalty Bonus
Please note that all successful applicants will be required to provide Select Lifestyles Limited with 2 written References and will undergo a full DBS check. Select Lifestyles Limited is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV for this role.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Support Worker, Care Assistant, Support Worker, Enabler, Carer, Care Worker, Care Assist, Care Coordinator, Care Assistant, Social Worker, Vulnerable Adult, Support Assistant, Adult Support Worker, Special Needs Support, Adult Care Assistant, Mental Health Support will be considered for this role
