Contracts of Employment
Once you have followed up references and CRB checks and feel that they are satisfactory you will then need to agree a Start Date with your Personal Assistant and give them an Employment Contract.
An Employment Contract is a really important document as it sets out a lot of areas that without the contract might cause disputes between you and your Personal Assistant. It tells them when they will get paid and how much, what they must do if they are unwell so that they give you notice, how much holiday entitlement they get and so on. It will help you both to know where you stand. You should send two copies of the contract to your new Personal Assistant (both signed by you) and ask them to return a copy to you, which they have signed. You should keep this in a safe place with your other records.
There is a Sample Contract which you can use in the Employment Contracts and Procedures section of Additional Information and advice is available from one of SILCs’ Independent Living Advisers.