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Skills for Care - Toolkit to help people employ their own personal assistants

Skills for Care - Toolkit to help people employ their own personal assistants

http://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/entry_to_social_care/recruitment/PAtoolkit.aspx

Skills for Care, together with Association for Real Change (ARC), has developed a toolkit to support people to employ their own personal assistants.

The toolkit helps small employers deal with the basic issues and legalities of employing their own staff, such as:

Employing a personal assistant.
Being a good employer.
Getting started.
Keeping your personal assistant.
Sorting out problems.
Additional resources.

Each section has a list of key questions and tasks, some 'essentials' and links to sources of help.

There are also templates available for some of the bits of paperwork you will need, available within the main document and as word documents on this webpage.

Toolkit to help people employ their own personal assistants

sample job description and person specification
sample application form
interview checklist and sample interview questions
sample letter inviting people for an interview
Sample letter telling people they’ve not got an interview
sample letter asking for a reference
sample letter offering the job
sample letter turning down an applicant
sample contract of employment
safety in the home checklist
sample risk assessment
sample disciplinary form

The toolkit is supported by Association for Real Change (ARC) and NAAPS.

Workforce Links

- HRBird
  HRBird is a free signposting website for the voluntary sector which takes the pick of people and volunteer management resources from across the web to help you navigate HR information, templates and tools easily.
- Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
- ACAS
  Acas stands for Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. We aim to improve organisations and working life through better employment relations.
- Business Link South West
  Business Link provides the information, advice and support you need to start, run and grow a business.
- Skills for Care
  Skills for Care is the employer led authority on the training standards and development needs of nearly one million social care staff in England.
- Local Government Improvement and Development
  LG Improvement and Development supports improvement and innovation in local government
- National Minimum Data Set for Social Care
  NMDS-SC can provide you with a tailored report on your workforce profile - as well as regional and other reports to provide comparisons.
- Healthcare Workforce Portal
  The healthcare workforce portal covers a range of workforce planning themes and information, giving you access to many e-learning resources and information.
- SCIE People Management
  The website is based on the premise that good people management will improve recruitment and retention, which will in turn lead to improved services for service users.