Job title: Personal assistant (PA)
Location: Meanwood, LS6
Please can interested applicants provide a covering letter detailing your suitability for the role
To assist with a variety of tasks which will assist a young person
who needs care and support to live their personal and social life according to
their wishes and interests.
● Twelve year old child who needs support after school while parents are working.
● They enjoy playing football, gaming, cooking and looking after their pet snake.
● The child has autism and needs close supervision due to poor motor skills and emotional dysregulation
After-school supervision, activities included but not limited to…
· Playing football, trampolining or cycling when it’s sunny and xbox or board games when it’s raining
· Being creative, maybe doing science experiments or some baking
· Providing a light meal
These duties may vary from day to day.
Essential
· A friendly person who has a good sense of humour, with the ability to build good relationships based on trust and respect.
· Flexible, adaptable and easy-going.
· Experience of working with neurodiverse children.
· Must like animals! We have a pet dog and pet snake.
Desirable
● Driving licence
● Childcare or Education Qualification
● Has an understanding of attachment issues
● Full training will be given, and you will be supported during your induction/first few
weeks of working with us
● Access to other training opportunities
● Competitive rate of pay, flexible working and work place pension.
Hours of work:
● 6 hours per week, preferably this would be from 3-5pm 3 days a week, but we can be flexible for the right person
● An additional 6 hours per week in school holidays.
Rate of pay:
TBC
Leeds DP and PA Support Hub are a Leeds City Council team supporting individuals in receipt of the Direct Payment package.
Our Independent Living Teams support disabled people of all ages to take control of any help they need with personal care, daily living tasks and getting out and about in their community. This includes supporting people to recruit, manage and pay their own support workers, usually called Personal Assistants (PAs). Employing PAs enables our customers to choose who they want to provide their support and how and when the support is provided, to suit their and their families' lifestyles.
Our customers include individual disabled and older people, parents with disabled children and carers of disabled adults.
Leeds CIL provides a full payroll service to individual employers of Personal Assistants. Their dedicated team of Finance Support Workers currently support over 1,000 individual employers to pay their PAs every month.