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Personal Assistant - Hurstpierpoint and Brighton DP7940

CAPTION: Job details

• Posting date: 27 May 2025


• Salary: £15 per hour


• Hours: Part time


• Closing date: 26 June 2025


• Location: Hassocks, West Sussex


• Remote working: On-site only


• Company: Independent Lives


• Job type: Permanent


• Job reference: DP7940

Summary

Personal Assistant - Hurstpierpoint and Brighton

Ref: DP7940

Location: Hassocks

Details

This role is to support a man.

Drivers licence required: Yes

Own vehicle needed: Yes

Employment status: employed or self-employed

Hours per week: Up to 14 hours a week. Preferably Tuesdays and Fridays.

Hourly pay rate: £15.

K is a quiet 24 year old man with Down Syndrome. He loves playing table tennis at Brighton Table Tennis Club. This is his main escape from the house and it is where he socialises and keeps fit and healthy. He also goes to fitness classes in Hove. He loves bowling, crazy golf, going to the cinema and eating out. Kane loves Brighton!

K is slowly becoming more independent but cannot travel on his own. He needs someone to support him with simple things like communicating, counting money, tying shoelaces and doing up buttons and zips. He needs help with shopping and training to use public transport and cooking a meal.

K is fun to be around, very well mannered and polite. Ideally he would love someone he can play table tennis, socialise and build a friendship with. K can be very quiet and shy and does not communicate clearly so needs help to be understood but also encouraged to speak up for himself.

Duties include:

• Shopping


• Cooking


• Transportation


• Companionship


• Dressing / undressing

Candidate qualities:

• Respectful of the employer's privacy and confidentiality


• Reliable with good timekeeping


• Able to both follow instructions and work on own initiative


• Hygienic, tidy and well organised


• Fit and healthy to undertake the required duties


• Patient and possess excellent interpersonal skills


• Honest and cheerful


• Able to speak and read English to a reasonable standard


• Able to always work to high standards of health & safety

If you are a kind, fun, sociable, energetic and a young minded person who doesn't mind driving/travelling from Hurstpierpoint to Brighton twice a week then you could be the perfect assistant for K.

Additional requirements

• Non-smoker preferred or someone willing to refrain from smoking during working hours


• Vulnerable to the risk of infection and disease transmission

Notes:

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK and be willing to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check if required.

Please note, if you are successful in your application for this position, you will be either engaged directly or employed by the individual employer and not by Independent Lives. The role may be offered on an employed or self-employed basis, depending on the suitability and agreement with the employer. If the role is employed, you will be entitled to holiday pay and issued an employment contract.

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Respectful of the employer's privacy and confidentiality
Reliable with good timekeeping
Able to both follow instructions and work on own initiative
Hygienic, tidy and well organised
Fit and healthy to undertake the required duties
Patient and possess excellent interpersonal skills
Honest and cheerful
Able to speak and read English to a reasonable standard
Able to always work to high standards of health & safety
If you are a kind, fun, sociable, energetic and a young minded person who doesn't mind driving/travelling from Hurstpierpoint to Brighton twice a week then you could be the perfect assistant for K.
Additional requirements

Non-smoker preferred or someone willing to refrain from smoking during working hours, Vulnerable to the risk of infection and disease transmission

Notes:

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK and be willing to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check if required., Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .

Up to 14 hours a week. Preferably Tuesdays and Fridays.

Hourly pay rate:

£15.

K is a quiet 24 year old man with Down Syndrome. He loves playing table Tennis at Brighton Table Tennis Club. This is his main escape from the house and it is where he socialises and keeps fit and healthy. He also goes to fitness classes in Hove. He loves bowling, crazy golf, going to the cinema and eating out. Kane loves Brighton!

K is slowly becoming more independent but cannot travel on his own. He needs someone to support him with simple things like communicating, counting money, tying shoe laces and doing up buttons and zips. He needs help with shopping and training to use public transport and cooking a meal.

K is fun to be around, very well mannered and polite. Ideally he would love someone he can play table tennis, socialise and build a friendship with. K can be very quiet and shy and does not communicate clearly so needs help to be understood but also encouraged to speak up for himself.

Duties include:

Shopping
Cooking
Transportation
Companionship
Dressing / undressing

Candidate qualities