Charlie Goring

Contact details

List of services

I can help you with:

• Cleaning, tidying, washing, ironing and organising, as well as tackling larger tasks like spring cleaning

• Cooking and internet shopping

• Shopping and other errands on your behalf

• Accompanying you shopping, to appointments, activities, places of interest, family and friends etc

• General garden maintenance

• The basic needs of household pets and clearing up after them (I’m used to walking large dogs and washing their muddy feet, or fully bathing them when necessary)

I have public liability insurance

Coverage

5 mile radius of Eastbourne

Availability

No Availability at present

Charging and related information

£15 per hour

Expertise

The plants and animals of the countryside, local history (military and industrial, too), chess, many different kinds of music, what’s on in the news, caring for the planet, poetry, helping victims of crime.

I‘m a member of the National Trust, Sussex Wildlife Trust and Eastbourne Natural History & Archaeological Society

Experience

I’ve enjoyed friendship with older and disabled people since an early age, in both work and spare time:

• Voluntary work with the homeless and others in all kinds of need at St Patrick’s, Hove, and Matthew 25 Mission, Eastbourne

• Worked as a cleaner, gardener, kitchen porter, retail assistant (including at food outlets), driver and archaeology assistant

• More recent experience of voluntary care, helping with cooking, cleaning, tidying, checking hearing aids, encouraging physiotherapy exercises, shopping and other errands, phoning medical people, checking heating controls and minor household maintenance.
training with the curriculum of the Care Certificate, where I took courses in Food Safety in Catering (L2), Moving and Handling of People, and Safeguarding Adults (I have an Advanced DBS Disclosure).

Home computer: Level 2 ECDL Certificate in IT User Skills (QCF) (May 2017)

Background

Pastoral care in a parochial setting

Accreditation

• Support With Confidence accredited member
• Support With Confidence approved

Category listings

• Personal Assistant
• Preparing meals in the home
• Gardening
• Pet walking
• Shopping assistance
• Social activities
• Domestic duties
• Respite care

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