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SDS Options Fife - Personal Assistants x 2 posts (SDS/KH/271183)
Created: 2/28/2023, Updated: 3/1/2023
Post: 2 x Personal Assistants
Reference: SDS/KH/271183
Hours: 10 ¼ hrs per week
Salary: £10.50 per hour
Location: Burntisland
Contract: Permanent
Qualifications required: PVG required - This role requires an enhanced check through PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups). Hoist trained, slings in situ due to mobility issues
Essential requirements: Kind, caring, and a good sense of humour.
SDS Options Fife is looking for personal assistants to help a 57-year-old female with her personal care. The individual has MS - Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a condition that can affect the brain and spinal cord, causing a wide range of potential symptoms, including problems with vision, arm or leg movement, sensation or balance. She also has COPD causing breathlessness. This lovely individual requires assistance to get up in the morning, showered and changed. Light cleaning such as wiping around the bathroom after use would also be helpful.
The individual has MS and COPD and is a wheelchair user. She requires full support from 2 staff to carry out all care tasks and will require a hoist for transfers. she needs support to get out of bed in the morning, attend the toilet, shower/dry and dress. The client's husband can attend to her meal-making. The client will also require a lunch visit and tea visit to support her to go to the toilet. At tuck, she will require support to attend to the toilet, change into her nightwear and get into bed. The carers must ensure she has her community alarm pendent/wrist band on before leaving her on all visits.
Applicants must have a caring attitude, a good sense of humour, and be reliable with a positive and flexible approach to work. Having experience with hoist use and slings is preferred.
This role requires an enhanced check through PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups).
Duties and Responsibilities
Provision of personal care
Assisting client to shower; dry; change clothes
Transfer into shower commode
Hoist and sling use required
Assistance with keeping the house tidy
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