Personal Assistants

Warm, friendly, and share our values of ensuring the best lives possible for everyone? Raise your hand if that’s you.

We are looking for a Personal Assistant(s) to support a local gentleman who lives in Castle Douglas. The support is to cover personal care visits in the morning and additional social visits a couple of afternoons a week. Your duties would include supporting to shower and dress in the morning support with medication and meal prep. The afternoon respite visits would be to encourage getting out and about and socialising.

Working with this Gentleman:

• Morning and afternoon visits with occasional holiday and sickness support
• It is desirable that applicants have had previous experience in Adult Support Services or Care Services.
• Compassionate and caring
• An understanding or experience of working with dementia would be beneficial.
• Flexible hours (to be discussed at interview)
• This post is subject to a PVG check

Applying for this position:

Applying for this job is easy. At the bottom of this advert, you can submit your CV and a covering letter directly to our hiring service. You will then hear from us within three weeks of the noted closing date. We will invite successful candidates to an interview so we can learn more about what makes each other tick, in a safe and secure way.

You can keep a track of your application in your profile management settings. For more information on this role, you can call Karen on 07592 128264 using reference KAMG1103

General Information:

• Please note that Capability Scotland is not the employer but is acting on our client’s behalf, who is the employer.
• Capability Scotland is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. We are happy to consider job-share applications if this is suitable for our client’s needs.
• Capability Scotland is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable people and conducts thorough pre-employment checks on all preferred candidates on behalf of our client.
• A copy of Capability Scotland’s Equality and Diversity Policy is available upon request from the HR Team.