Salary: £12.71 per hour (Employed) £16.00 per hour (Self-Employed)
Seeking personal assistant for 10-year-old child with complex medical needs in Barrow in Furness.
Posted on behalf of Parents/Customer:
Child's needs include cerebral palsy, vision impairment, global developmental delay, and nonverbal.
Child is a happy, chilled child with no behavioural difficulties but a lot of complex positional and feeding needs.
- Full paid training given.
- Must hold driving licence and be confident to drive a WAV.
- Must be willing and able to manual handling/position changes.
- Must be able and willing to push wheelchair on walks etc.
- Duties will include preparing pureed meals and spoon feeding.
- Child is awaiting a peg so will also include feeding via peg.
- Personal care, nappy changes, and dressing.
- Aiding with baths.
- Postural management and positional changes using different equipment including H frame hoist and Standing frame.
- Following a physio plan.
- Following a chest physio plan.
- Doing activities with child.
- Taking for days out in WAV.
- Potentially dropping off/collecting child to/from school.
- Seeking someone with an enthusiastic patient and gentle attitude who is intuitive.
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