If you can tie shoe laces, pour orange juice or clean a floor in a creative way, Philip Patston may just have the job for you.

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Imagine this – you run two organisations, a small business and a charitable trust in the social and creative sectors. Your livelihood depends on it. You have the usual financial responsibilities, accountabilities, commitment to customer service and expectations to deliver on contracts as anyone.

The one difference is this: you rely on somebody else assisting you to get up each morning, helping you ablute, get dressed, prepare food and maintain the home office. You must recruit and manage a team of part-time people who are willing to arrive at 7am and do for you what many loathe having to do for themselves – cook, clean the toilet, put the rubbish out.

This is my reality. It's the aspect of my existence that most people don't know about me, until they become close to me. It's an extra layer to what I do that is unrealised and, therefore, unacknowledged.

And as I write about it now, I wouldn't want a string of accolades about it. That would be weird and I could easily drown in a sea of goodwill, nice as that could be. But, right now I need to make people aware of it, because three of four of my current team are leaving in the next three weeks to pursue travelling, training and other commitments. Not because I'm a bastard to work for – at least they haven't said that to my face.

It should be the easiest role to recruit for – who can't tie shoe laces, pour orange juice or clean a floor? In some ways it is. But it's also the most difficult because, let's face it, helping someone put their socks on sometime between 8:07 and 8:23 every morning isn't quite better work stories, whichever way you look at it.

Not to mention meeting your boss in his boxers every morning at 7am, unable to utter an intelligent word until his first coffee is consumed.

But for the lack of better work stories, the job does offer it's perks. I can be amusing and downright profound at times, so you may laugh or go away with an insight once and a while. I'm a good listener and trained counsellorr, so I'm happy to listen to any problems or issues you may have, as long as it's not too often.

Best of all, if I annoy you, you can always cut me shaving by mistake.

Check out the video below to get a glimpse of what the role entails and check out my ad here.