Recruitment Support
As an Individual Employer you will have full control over the Personal Assistant you choose to hire. The Recruitment process is an important part of making sure you hire the right person for you.
Checklist
To support you on your recruitment journey, we have designed a checklist for you to download and help you on each step.
Download - Employing a Personal Assistant Checklist (323 Kb)
Skills for Care have a Recruiting a PA toolkit to support you through the entire recruitment process.
This toolkit includes support in the follow areas:
- Writing a job description and person specification
- Writing your job advert
- Advertise your job
- Choose who to interview
- Do the interview
- Offer the job
- Do the right checks
- Keep a record
Before your PA starts:
Make sure you've completed all the necessary pre-employment checks after selecting your candidate. Skills for Care have a page dedicated on how to support you Before your PA starts.
This webpage will cover:
- Contract of employment
- Paying for your personal assistant
- Redundancy
- Maternity, paternity, and adoption rights
- Health and Safety
- Insurance
- Keeping records
Please visit Skills for Care - on how to be prepared before your Personal Assistant starts