Peripatetic Care Assistant

Peripatetic Care Assistant (Days)

Salary: Band 4, £23,152 - £24,362 pa, pro rata (£9,385 - £9,876 for 15 hours) plus a 17% shift allowance if applicable. 

We currently have 2 x posts available:

Rotas typically are a mixture of:  

Early shift - 07:30 - 14:30 

Late shift - 14:30 - 21:30 

Shifts include a 30-minute unpaid break.

Full time hours

Please indicate on your application the number of hours you would be able to work. 

Full time hours 37 per week, Part time hours are also available - (minimum 15 hours).

Portsmouth City Council

At Portsmouth City Council we're all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city but we need the best employees to do so. 

With a little over 207,000 residents and 7,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority's main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to multi-million pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.   

What is the role

Using a person-centred approach, you will look after the physical, emotional, cultural and social needs of service users. This will include personal care, assisting clients at mealtimes and all aspects of daily living. You will be providing person centred care in the form of social activities which promotes the resident's mental health and wellbeing and improves their quality of life.

As a key worker to specific service users you will take responsibility to ensure information about their health and wellbeing is recorded using electronic care planning (Nourish) and communicating this information to the team leaders.  This is a legal requirement under the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to meet our fundamental standards.

You will be responsible for monitoring service users health and well-being whilst ensuring you have recorded all information on Nourish, reporting any concerns to the team leader within the appropriate timeframe. 

You will look after the needs of a diverse group of service users with a wide range of care needs, including challenging behaviour. 

For this role you will need to be able to undertake person moving and handling duties. 

There will also be the need for light food preparation and light cleaning tasks to ensure the environment remains clean in line with infection control guidance. 

This role will include some person moving and handling duties and there will also be the need for light food preparation.  

What you’ll need to succeed

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it. 

 Please read the job profile for the full details of this role  

 What you'll get in return

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
• Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme 
• Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
• Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.

Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/

 Additional Information:

Please view the full job profile here - Peripatetic Care Assistant (Days)

Application Details:

Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.  Please do not just submit a CV. Applicants will be shortlisted based on their ability to use good examples that meet the criteria of this role.  Please read alongside the 'How to apply' information on the home page of the website.

You may wish to attach an additional letter or document to supplement your application. 

Please ensure you provide your full education history from secondary school, include name/address of establishment, details of relevant qualifications & awarding body. 

Please explain any gaps - this is essential for all safeguarding roles.

There is no closing date.  Applicants will be contacted for interview as and when shortlisting takes place and we reserve the right to close the advert early if we have successful applicant (s).

Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society. A commitment to our values

We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours. 

We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk