How Personal Assistants fit into Health & Social Care
Different types of support in Health and Social Care Unpaid carers An unpaid carer is anyone, including children and adults who looks after a family member, partner or friend who needs help because of their illness, frailty, disability, a mental health problem or an addiction and cannot cope wit...
What is a Personal Assistant?
What is a Personal Assistant? Although Personal Assistants (PAs) are the second largest workforce in social care, many people are unaware the role exists or what it means. Most people might think being a PA involves working in an office, fulfilling business and admin tasks. However, there is a dif...
Is the role for me?
Why be a PA? There are lots of benefits of working as a Personal Assistant in Care: The role can be very varied: Can support employer in different aspects of their life Can work with multiple employers, supporting different individuals who want or need different things Can work with peop...