Could YOU work for us? (Or do you know someone who could?)
Are you in your Fifties or Sixties?
Are you Single, Widowed or Divorced?
Want to be able to work for a week, then take a week off?
Have you run a household all your adult life?
Could you move into someone else's house for a week, and take charge?
If you want to work, and the answer to these questions is YES, then you might consider working for Irish Aunts.
IRISH AUNTS
Established in 1967 by Iris I. Brownrigg, based on her own career as a Princess Christian Children's Nurse, and upon the need she found amongst families with whom she worked, for short-term staff with the confidence and experience to run a household, and deal with any eventuality. Our work today is almost exclusively with the elderly in their own homes. Each "Irish Aunt" is assigned from a roll of carefully screened staff for short-term (1, 2 or 3 week) assignments: always living in as a member of the family. When the Agency takes on long-term assignments, we do so with a small "team" of Aunts. What we need our staff to be able to do:
We specialise in staff that are Single, Widowed or Divorced, because the nature of the job requires them to disappear out of circulation for a week or so at a time; they take their time off between assignments. In each 24 hour period they would be expected to work for 5 or 6 hours; remain present and on call within the household for a further 15 or 16 hours, living in as a member of the family and getting their night's sleep; with only 3 hours to get away from it all. This is the level of cover that one might only expect from a family member, but unlike the family member, our staff have blocks of time off between assignments. Assignments and breaks:
Our long-term assignments generally work week on, week off. The Agency's approach to how an individual Irish Aunt wants to work, their time off, outside commitments, and their personal preferences in both the sort of assignment they want and the people they like to work with, is always flexible. We go to some trouble to suit people to assignments. We have staff working almost full time, and on the other hand staff who work just the occasional week or few days every month or so. We have no real demand for staff for weekends only. Qualifications:
A background in the caring services is useful but NOT essential. Having cared for an elderly or sick relative is also an additional qualification, (we do not provide nurses, and only a limited amount of direct personal care). Being a driver is also useful, especially if you have your own car. We can NOT place smokers. A kind and caring disposition, combined with the confidence and experience to run a household in its entirety, is much more important than formal qualifications. Irish Aunts are placed in a position of great trust and must be reliable, capable and caring. Contact us:
Full details on our main page. Call (028) 9045 7900 - for an application form, or print a copy from one of the following links and mail it to the address on the form:
