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About the Role

Join Paragon Home Healthcare as a compassionate, confident, and proactive Live-in Carer / Personal Assistant to support a young woman with a spinal cord injury in her Battersea apartment. This role requires a discreet, positive, and PA-style approach, focusing on dignity, empowerment, and natural support. The client is keen to travel, so flexibility and openness to supporting outings and trips are essential. Full training and ongoing support from a nurse-led clinical team are provided.

Responsibilities

Support with morning routine and getting ready for the day
Provide personal care with dignity and sensitivity
Assist with bowel care
Perform hoisting, transfers, and moving and handling
Support with dressing, grooming, hair, and make-up
Act as the client’s “limbs” while promoting choice and independence
Support daily routine, wellbeing, and confidence
Provide general PA-style support around the home
Support outings, appointments, and future travel
Help maintain a calm, organised, and respectful environment
Communicate effectively and maintain care records
Follow the client’s care plan and agreed routines

Requirements

Female applicants only, due to the nature of intimate personal care requirements (occupational requirement assessed in line with the Equality Act 2010)
Warm, discreet, respectful, and reliable
Confident supporting with personal care
Comfortable with moving and handling and hoisting, or willing to complete training
Able to support a young adult in a dignified and empowering way
Positive, polished, and naturally encouraging
Interested in lifestyle, hair, make-up, fitness, healthy living, or similar
Comfortable working in a live-in care role
Open to supporting outings, travel, and time away from home
Good communicators who can build trust and rapport
Able to follow care plans, routines, and clinical guidance
Right to work in the UK
Enhanced DBS check, or willingness to obtain one
Provide references
Commitment to safe, person-centred care

Skills

Personal care
Moving and handling
Hoisting
Communication
Care planning
Routine management
Clinical guidance adherence
Discreet support
Empowering support
Lifestyle support

Location

Battersea, London SW11

Work Type

Live-in care
Full-time

Experience Level

Experience in care is preferred
Experience with spinal cord injury is beneficial

Salary/Compensations

£152.18 per day

Benefits

Up to £400 joining and training bonus (£150 with first salary, £250 after probation)
Competitive Pay Rates
Double Pay on Christmas Day
24/7 Nurse-Led Clinical Support
Career Development Opportunities
£250 Refer-a-Friend Bonus
Cycle to Work Scheme
Award-Winning Employer
Paid Training from a Trusted Specialist Provider

About the Company

Paragon is a specialist provider of spinal cord injury and complex care.
At Paragon, we put people first — both our clients and our carers.
We’re a professional, innovative and supportive care provider delivering high-quality, person-centred care across the UK.
We specialise in complex care, particularly spinal cord injury, and are proud to build packages that focus on independence, quality of life and long-term outcomes.

Equal Opportunity

Paragon Home Healthcare is an equal opportunities employer.
Occupational requirements are assessed on a case-by-case basis in line with the Equality Act 2010.