Toolkit to help people employ their own personal assistants

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.