Live-In Personal Assistant / Complex Care Support Worker

A Star Care is recruiting a reliable and respectful Live-In Personal Assistant / Complex Care Support Worker to support a university student with a complex physical disability to live independently in central Leeds.

This is a rota-based live-in assignment. The successful worker will provide planned daytime support and agreed sleep-in cover while receiving appropriate breaks and rest periods.

Key responsibilities
• Provide dignified personal care, including support with bathing, dressing and continence needs.
• Support safe transfers and mobility using fixed and mobile hoisting equipment in line with the care plan and training.
• Prepare meals, complete light domestic tasks and assist with everyday routines.
• Enable access to university, social, sporting and community activities while promoting choice and independence.
• Drive a large automatic wheelchair-accessible vehicle safely.
• Accompany occasional travel and overnight stays in North Yorkshire and elsewhere in the UK; overseas travel may be offered by prior agreement.

Essential requirements
• Previous professional experience providing personal care and moving-and-handling support.
• Full, clean UK driving licence and confidence driving a large automatic vehicle.
• Able to work a live-in rota and travel or stay away when agreed.
• Respectful of privacy, dignity, personal boundaries and independent decision-making.
• Right to work in the UK, satisfactory employment references and an Enhanced DBS check, or willingness to complete one.

Desirable experience
• Supporting adults with complex physical disabilities or reduced mobility.
• Live-in care, hoisting, wheelchair support or supporting a young adult in education.

Pay and benefits
• £850 gross per seven-day live-in placement week.
• £50 weekly food allowance and live-in accommodation.
• Approved work-related travel expenses.
• Statutory employment entitlements apply.

Start date: 20 September 2026.

A Star Care is committed to safeguarding, equal opportunities and fair recruitment. Applications are assessed only against the requirements of the role. Candidate information will be processed solely for recruitment, compliance and placement purposes in accordance with applicable UK data-protection law and our privacy procedures
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed