Supporting: 
Female
Job Ref:
REF:SGO
Area:
BR2
Contract: 
Permanent
Hours per week: 
16
Type of support: 
Personal care
Languages: 
English
Age: 
26 - 65 years
Job overview...: 

 

Job Vacancy: Personal Assistant (Bromley)

We are looking for a PA who is flexible, patient, and willing to work collaboratively with the family to provide tailored support across personal, medical, social, and domestic care needs. She is supported by a caring family and enjoys outings, familiar environments, and gentle activities.

About the Client:

  • Visual Impairment (Registered Blind)
  • Learning Difficulty – Complex needs with communication difficulties
  • Reduced Mobility

Role Overview:

Personal Care:

  • Support with toileting, maintaining personal hygiene, showering, dressing, brushing teeth and hair
  • Painting fingernails (she enjoys having them varnished)
  • Supporting her at home and accompanying her on outings when required

Medical Care:

  • Accompanying her to regular hospital appointments (usually at King’s College Hospital) alongside her father and/or stepmother
  • Providing reassurance and understanding during appointments; ability to communicate with medical staff is important
  • Flexibility to work beyond usual hours on appointment days (paid at the usual hourly rate; appointments are scheduled in advance)

Social Care:

  • Shopping trips (to familiar and accessible locations)
  • Visits to garden centres
  • Outings for meals (assisting with ordering food and managing money)

Domestic Care:

  • Supporting food preparation
  • Changing bed linen, cleaning her room, and managing laundry
  • Washing up and general tidying

 

Additional Requirements:

  • A full driving licence and access to a car is highly desirable

Working Hours:

  • 4 days per week
  • 4 hours per day
  • Flexibility required on hospital appointment days