Personal Care Assistant - Spinal Cord Injured Clients

Active Assistance

Job Description

Live-in Personal Care Assistant – You could make a real difference working as a Personal Care Assistant on a one-to-one basis with our Clients throughout London, England and Wales. To apply, go to www.activeassistance.com/candidates_home/ to fill in an application form.

Active Assistance provides the very best live in care for adults and children with high level physical disabilities, specialising in spinal cord injury and we are currently looking for enthusiastic and motivated people to join our team of Personal Care Assistants (PA).

As a PA you will work with our clients on a live-in basis for between 1 and 3 weeks at a time. Whilst you are working the client provides food and accommodation and we pay for your travel costs to and from each assignment. You will be providing practical support to enable our clients to live an active life – this will include general domestic tasks, personal care and driving. To apply, go to www.activeassistance.com/candidates_home/ to fill in an application form.

Previous experience of working with disabled adults and/or children is a definite advantage, however, we provide a comprehensive 5 day training course to prepare our PAs for working with our clients. The training course is free and during the training we also provide free accommodation.

WE HAVE CLIENTS THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES AND SO THERE ARE LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU TO EXPLORE. HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE ASSIGNMENTS WE CURRENTLY HAVE:-

Socialising, films and computing are the main interests of this physically disabled 26 year old man. He needs his carer to support him in living independently and to assist him with his daily routine. Our client has lots of friends and family who live close by and so there is plenty of social activity with this assignment.

To qualify to work with Active Assistance as a PA you must :-
•Be over 21 years of age *
•Hold a Driving Licence valid for driving in the UK
•Be eligible to work in the UK either through your nationality or by holding a valid UK Work Permit/Visa
•Have excellent English language skills
•Ideally, be a non-smoker

* This position is exempt from the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 as per section 8(2).

When working as a PA with Active Assistance you will receive:-
• Free 5 day, award winning*, specialist training to nationally recognised standards
• Free food and accommodation whilst working
• Starting salary up to £430 per week + paid holiday and enhanced pay for bank holidays
• 6 monthly salary reviews, taking your salary up to £504 per week after 2 years
• Paid holiday, equivalent to 1 day for every 11 days worked + enhanced bank holiday pay rate
• Opportunities for free UK and overseas travel
• Subsidised staff accommodation between assignments
• Flexible working patterns
• Opportunities to study towards an NVQ in Health & Social Care

* Winners of the Best Induction Programme in the 2006 London and Southeast Recruitment Awards

We are currently recruiting for our next training courses.

We will be holding Interviews in Sevenoaks, Kent.

To apply for this or to explore other opportunities with us please submit the on-line application form at http://www.activeassistance.com/candidates_home/