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employing P.A.s with health budget
not sure if you can help me with this, I hope so. I am planning to change from a care provider to health budget for my daughter. she has 24/7 care and receives her funding from CHC. I am wishing to keep the same P.A.s (or most of them) as she is familiar with them and they with her. they are employed by care provider, but care provider use her funding to pay P.A.s the care provider has threatened me with his legal team as says I cannot take P.A.s with us. I have seen one of their contracts with care provider and cannot see anything regarding this in there.
it was mentioned on another discussion board on scope of the possibility of paying the care provider for taking them. can we do that. they all want to come with us. or is there any other route I can take. I feel that they are taking away our freedom to choose what suits my daughter.
thank you.
it was mentioned on another discussion board on scope of the possibility of paying the care provider for taking them. can we do that. they all want to come with us. or is there any other route I can take. I feel that they are taking away our freedom to choose what suits my daughter.
thank you.
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"I'm trying to live like a random poem I read that ended 'to bloom where we are planted"
"If you’ve never hired a carer before, you can get advice on employing a carer or personal assistant."
But doesn't say where that advice could come from....
Does anyone know, is there a place that advisors folks on the enoloyement/law side of employing carers and PAs?
Also, hi there, hope you get some support and can do what your family needs.
"I'm trying to live like a random poem I read that ended 'to bloom where we are planted"
There are several ways to hire a carer or PA. First of all call your local council social services team to ask for a needs assessment to be done. A carer can help with the following:
Washing and dressing
Transportation
Cleaning and household chores etc
Cooking
Shopping
Toilet assistance
Bathing
Making friends
Accessing the community
Gardening
Learning new things
Finding work
Hope this is useful. For more information see this link
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/care-services-equipment-and-care-homes/homecare/
Tip- make sure you trust the carers. Always obtain a phone number in case and insist on a DBS check for any private carers as well.
This isn't a situation I've come across before, so hopefully someone will be able to offer some expertise about this. In the meantime, have you checked out Contact? They have a helpline who might be able to offer some advice about this. You can call them on 0808 808 3555. Also, you can always try our helpline on 0808 800 3333.
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Call thomson helpline number (this number is provided on the website) and see what they say
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Hopefully you can sort out this issue quickly.
A similar situation occurred with us, and the staff had signed a contract to the effect that they couldn’t work for former clients for a period of one year.
We overcame this, the PA's all left the care provider, and went self employed and we rehired them after the year.
Try & be kind to one another even if we may have different views.
It is a tangle, because if you are forced to recruit workers to do the job until a year from now, you will then need to sack the new workers in order to take back the current ones. But by then, you might be closely attached to the new ones!
Is there a way to negotiate with the agency? For example, offer to buy off the restrictions. But if they are currently taking a big profit on every hour involved, they won't like losing it.