Caregiver, Companion

Poliana LOPES

I am a self-employed Carer with live-in work experience. Since my training in December 2020 I have continuously looked after elderly adults with severe mobility and health disorders. I can provide excellent client, employer, and personal references, subject to a satisfactory job offer.

I am seeking a Carer role as perfectly suited to the Client as it is to me. Please interpret my meaning of the term ‘Client’ to appropriately encompass the Client’s family, friends, and associates.

This aim is based on rewarding experiences caring for Clients I have enjoyed getting to know well and working for throughout 2021 to date. Ideally, supported in the role by a professional Agency able to support Clients and Carers reliably, in conventional and urgent circumstances.

I would like to be financially rewarded along the lines of my recent, live-in, Private Carer role: 1 week on 1 week off rota, £3, 200 monthly, travel allowance from/to London, £8. 50 daily food allowance, own bedroom and bathroom during work weeks. In this case, my lady Client’s special needs required additional part-time Carers, provided daily by a local care agency. For multiple reasons, this physically and somewhat emotionally hard job has led to me feeling, in general, that carefully choosing two experienced Carers, who alternate weekly, offer the most beneficial care pattern to a disabled Client.

My personal situation is flexible practically, socially, and geographically. So, although I prefer to work in or near London, my largely unrestricted circumstances enable me to consider atypical requests.

Do I offer a special attribute? Immodestly, friends have always said and continue to say that I “…fill a room with humour and happiness without trying. ” Whist this can’t be true on every occasion, I can say that I have always been able to make and maintain excellent, long-lasting relationships with friends, colleagues, and employers.

What I can assure you about is that I am extremely hard working, always on time, well organized, never moody, resourceful, in good health, physically fit, and very strong for a relatively small person (163 cm, 57 kg). Partly, perhaps, due to many years helping my parents farm a smallholding in a rural part of Brazil (including driving farm vehicles) and partly because I have always been sporty, train regularly in a gym, have never smoked or used recreational drugs, and maintain a healthy diet.

I am in the fortunate position of being able to wait until I find the uniquely good job I seek. I am happy to work through an Agency, Care Business, or directly for a Private Client, as a Sole Trader and possibly as a conventional employee. But not as a Zero-Hour Contract Worker. Nor in a job which requires me to accept assignments with multiple clients. My nature is suited to developing personal relationships.

Caregiver, Companion
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