Personal Assistants

Troika finds, recruits and manages Personal Assistants and support workers for people with Individual Service Funds and Direct Payments.

Personal Assistants can help with things like:

  • Washing and dressing
  • Shopping for food or clothes
  • Making meals
  • Medication
  • Housework and gardening
  • Helping to find work or education
  • Arranging transport
  • Organising and supporting leisure activities
  • Meeting friends and family

We work with you to find and recruit your own Personal Assistants. This includes:

  • Writing and placing advertisements, or going through our existing list of PAs
  • Making sure that applicants are well-suited to the people they will be supporting
  • enhanced DBS checks to make sure PAs do not have a criminal record
  • Checking references – getting information from people who have worked with them in the past
  • Interviews, then choosing who you want to support you

We work closely with local care organisations to make sure that you still get support if a Personal Assistant is off sick or on holiday.

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Personal Assistant Teams

If you need a lot of care and support, we can help you to build a team of PAs. Between the team, sickness and holidays can be covered, and there is more flexibility about when you get support. The PAs can support each other, and get to know you well. 

Support for Personal Assistants

We can offer training and information to PAs about things like self-employment, insurance and safeguarding. We can also offer support with supervisions, rotas and planning for emergencies.

Find out more about becoming a Personal Assistant or support worker for Troika.

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