Personal Assistant / Support Worker
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To facilitate us in living the life we want to live and achieving a quality of life comparable to a family without our disabilities.
Summary
Job Title: Personal Assistant
Location: Northwich, Cheshire, UK
Hours: 10 to 40 depending on roles undertaken
Pay: £6.00 - £6.50
Job Type: Permanent
Short Description: Personal Assistant required by independent living High Functioning Autistic couple with children (and cat). Providing home and community support for complex social, communication, and organisation impairments.
Apply: Please e-mail: job@paradox.freeserve.co.uk
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We are a couple in our 20s, both of whom have an Autistic Spectrum Disorder. We live in our own home in the community. We have two children and are expecting another around Christmas time. We don't have a lot of employment history, but are both interested in computers and taking courses from Open University. The difficulties we have day to day are mainly with keeping up with the housework and personal care routines as well as filling in forms and making necessary phone calls. Although we appear quite capable on the surface, our disabilities are complex and profound. Our behaviour can often be difficult, but neither of us are aggressive. We are both articulate and love a good debate, but have communication problems which are subtle yet significant. For more pages about me and my family, see the links on the right. |
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Age: 29 IanAge: 24Disabilities: Asperger Syndrome E-mail: spyro@f2s.com KendraRelationship: daughterAge: 7 Birthdate: September 12, 1995 Disabilities: None AntoniaRelationship: daughterAge: 22 mos. Birthdate: October 8, 2001 Disabilities: None ?Relationship: unborn babyAge: 22 weeks gestation Birthdate: Due December 26, 2003 |
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A wide variety of functions towards facilitating us to have an ordinary life.
This job is for someone who is up for a challenge to their ways of thinking about competence and capability as well as their creativity in working around complex behviour issues. In detail, but not an exhaustive list, the Personal Assistant's roles include:
Task |
Examples |
| Housework All aspects of maintaining the family home |
laundry, dishes, vacuuming, ironing, some cooking and pet care |
| Family Support Child Care and Intra-familial Communication |
taking children out, school run, teaching chores, changing nappies, playing games, getting snacks and small meals, minor counselling and mediation, encourage and facilitate couple and family interaction |
| Community Access Access Work, Volunteer, Education, Leisure, and Social Activities |
providing some friendship as well as facilitation of other friendships and general social skills, encourage us to try new activities, accompanying to new (or familiar) activities, taking all or part of the family on day outings, help finding and setting up appropriate work and volunteer opportunities, liaison with employers, prompting for home-based tasks, registering for courses, going out for coffee, reminders to phone friends, suggesting activities, coaching on appropriate dress and behaviour |
| Advocacy, Administration, and Communication Advocate for our Rights and Needs with Agencies and People in the Community |
phone, write letters, stand up to people, explain our disability, make appeals, make our wants and needs known, help with understanding and making important life decisions, make sure bills are up to date, send post, filling in forms, making phone calls, making appointments with doctor, helping communicate needs to medical professionals |
| Personal Care Monitoring and prompting in health and hygiene. No hands-on care of adults required. |
reminders to wash and change clothes, eat, take medication, exercise, etc. including as much follow-through as necessary to make sure tasks are completed |
| Planning, Organisation, Independent Living Set up and Maintain Functional Organisation, Routines, and Life Skills |
sorting through possessions, finding places for things, menu planning, activity planning, goal setting and plans, creation and implementation of checklists and routines, use of any helpful visual supports, explicit and incidental help with life skills such as cooking, safety, housekeeping, and social skills |
While support is needed in all these areas and progress may be slow, it is also important to encourage independence where appropriate.
Support should be available through regular consultation with Social Workers and other support people.
