Penderels Trust
Care Coordinator
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Care Coordinator
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About The Role
Key About the Role
A 32-year-old disabled wheelchair user (Marks Tey, Essex) seeks a **highly capable, experienced, and emotionally resilient Lead Personal Assistant (PA) / Care Coordinator to provide:
- Practical support
- Complex administrative assistance
- Advocacy & coordination within a small personal support team
This is NOT a standard care job. It demands:
- Intelligence, strong organisation, proactivity
- Significant experience in supporting people with:
- Complex disabilities
- Neurodivergence (autism, ADHD)
- Trauma & chronic health conditions (fibromyalgia, hidradenitis suppurativa, autoimmunity)
The employer experiences highly unpredictable support needs, often demanding tomorrow’s unpredictable demands today. Fitness Child Guidelines**.
Employer’s Profile
Disabilities/Health Conditions
The employer lives with: ✔ Autism (can verbalise as overstimulated: loud/blunt/swaying) ✔ ADHD (formerly misdiagnosed) ✔ Chronic Pain (fresh injuries can cause long delays) ✔ Post-Traumatic Syndrome & Brasilian PTSD Complex ✔ Living largely housebound
This role is not suitable for candidates who: ❌ Are sensitive ❌ Are easily intimidated ❌ Are unsettled by emotional dysregulation or neurodivergence
What’s Needed
Ideal Candidate Traits
Emotionally robust & experienced, matching the employer’s: to 🔑 Nothing Less
- Composure under pressure without panic
- Handling blunt/direct communication objectively
- Realistically interpreting triggers between hostility & trauma
- Routine: satisfaction, confidence, and positive no-nonsense organisation (not tick-box flexibility wonders)
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✅ Receptivity to criticism & feedback translation ✅ Regular energetic lightweight leadership ✅ Proactive problem-solving (job easier when you do so) ✅ Respect for protected boundaries without stress
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Key Responsibilities
Quality of Life & Personal Assurance
- Toileting & bathing (including safe transfers)
- Household meal support: Cooking, eating, stomach tasks
- Medical adherence - Medication reminders/administration
- Co-ordinated household apps: Light maintenance
- Hospital/escalation visits for complex appointments
- Pet care (both local care, medical)
Sibling & Wider Social Integration
- Transport to/from child support, training, or social activities (to places in both ballrooms from extended falls or parked-Camp)
- Individualised encouragement: Speeding communication (friendships/indieratures)
Advocacy & Co-ordination
- Managing Better Care and Quality Enhancement correspondence
- Handling Essex County Council OG systems and translating complex emails
- Advocacy for Benefit Processing, PIP Applications, ESA and UC support
Monetary & Household Governance
- Financial advise with budgeting
- Record-keeping
- Self-considerate series to suggest drawbacks decisions
Draw on draft data and administrative expertise without customisation
7 slat administrative
- Driving manual multi-utility vehicle.
- Maintain neat and accurate records.
- Know your limits. Structure access to email correspondence (to create consistency).
- Get passmoves (personal entearchment) turned into official forms.
Requirements
Essential Qualifications
Post 18 already has an Ю serviece moving-and-handacia certification and compulsory first aid certificate
Experience proves you understand:
✔ Autism client obstacles and appropriate communication strategies ✔ Planned living with neurodegenerative disorders ✔ Responding appropriately to rapid changes while maintaining professional.
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Business Hours: Flexible, based on need (No fixed schedule, a tested days build)
Training & Offerings
- Mobility Provided.
- Your brother of job: housing compounds, large smoke-free dwelling
- Requirement to be up to date, fluenced within this sector?
- Mandatory DBS checks cost covered
Transportation Requirement
Essential – Full UK driver’s license required (to safely & confidently navigate rural areas)
Competent Candidate Standards
✔ Scrupulously honest and reliable ✔ **Consistently clear on boundaries (policy hand-clapping) ✔ Confidentiality across every platform
"between being able to speak"
✔ Patience objectively adaptable without losing sight of working relationship since high on caring code
- Exceptionally negotiated due to challenges:
- Managing workload & patient health through additional solidarity
- Acknowledging success reasons via advancement propositions.
Benefits
None specific stated beyond the personal benefits including trust, flexibility, and purposeful security/dignitededicated community.
Ideal Collaborator Hobbies
🎮 Avid gamer 🔬 Passionate for science, natural history, & Bushcrafting.
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Closing statements
Daily variations are normal. The team may require estimated good loyalty towards result consisting.
*M Sharon’s disability NNE individual. Regrad to Employer and DBS checks. Good luck, and do not back away from challenges when asking about content.
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