Employing personal assistants is a way people can have choice and control over care and support arrangements; focusing on what’s important to them.
An individual employer is a person directly employing a personal assistant for their care and support. This is usually done using a direct payment from a local authority, a personal health budget from the NHS or their own money (or a combination).
微微草视频 has a range of support to help individual employers with recruiting, managing, developing and supporting personal assistants.
In this section you’ll find our Employing personal assistants toolkit. It can help individual employers to think about their responsibilities as an employer, from before recruitment through to when a personal assistant is in post.
Within the toolkit you’ll find links to further information and templates that can be downloaded and tailored to fit your circumstances.
We also have an Individual employer and personal assistants training guide to guide you through upskilling yourself and your PA.
Employing PAs Toolkit
Our Employing personal assistants toolkit will help you to think about your responsibilities as an employer, and includes guidance, templates and resources about recruiting, training and managing your team.
User led organisation funding
The individual employer fund has closed. Alternative training will be available through user led organisation programmes from September 2026.
Factsheets for Individual Employers
These factsheets are designed to guide Individual Employers through the key responsibilities of employing or contracting a Personal Assistant (PA).
Learn from other PAs and employers
Hear directly from experienced Personal Assistants and Individual Employers as they share what鈥檚 helped them succeed, what they鈥檝e learned the hard way, and how they stay effective in demanding roles.
Webinar and event recordings
We鈥檝e developed a series of webinars covering a range of topics to support individual employers, personal assistants and supporting organisations with best practice.
This is the only path for true independence, choice and control.
Nadia Clarke
Individual employer
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