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Care Personal Assistant Employment Contract UK

Define personalised support around the employer's choices, safe boundaries and reliable contingency arrangements.

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This page is maintained for UK employers creating personal assistant (pa care) contracts for social care. HRHeaven uses a legally validated and solicitor-approved self-service contract framework, with wording for role duties, confidentiality, notice, holiday, probation and practical workplace expectations. It does not replace individual legal advice for complex or disputed circumstances.

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Job description

Clear role overview and key responsibilities.

Probation period

Clear probation terms for the selected arrangement.

Role-specific duties

Maintained responsibilities, records and authority boundaries for the selected role.

Working hours

Standard and flexible working arrangements.

Holiday entitlement

Holiday terms explained for the selected arrangement.

Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

Clear process and employee rights.

Notice periods

Notice terms explained for both parties.

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When to use this contract

Deliver reliable, person-directed support at agreed times, respectful assistance with daily and community routines, and clear communication about changes, missed tasks and emerging risk.

Workplace context: Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering individual support scope and working relationship. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering hours, travel, outings and appointments. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering keys, property, money and expenses. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering privacy, medication, lone working and emergency cover. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering CQC requirements where applicable.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: List the support tasks and decisions the PA may make, who changes the arrangement and who provides emergency or clinical advice. Access to the person's home or money must not be treated as general authority. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

What to prepare before you issue it

  • the individual employer and funding arrangement
  • the duties locations and personal-care scope
  • the hours cover holiday and contingency plan
  • the vehicle expenses and community activities
  • the medicine training and emergency arrangements

Day-to-day operating brief

What Personal Assistant (PA Care) work looks like in practice

A care personal assistant supports one person to live according to their chosen routines, often in the person's home or community. The contract should be highly specific about agreed tasks, boundaries, money, travel and emergency support because there may be no wider team on site. The individual employer may legitimately choose how ordinary daily support is delivered, while employment, safety and safeguarding boundaries remain. The agreement should describe who gives instructions if the employer uses an authorised representative and how disagreement is resolved. Personal assistance should enhance control and participation, not give the worker authority over the person's finances, relationships or decisions beyond the expressly agreed task.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

  • Provide the individually agreed personal support.
  • Assist with home community and daily routines.
  • Respect autonomy privacy and household boundaries.
  • Maintain agreed hours expenses and care records.
  • Report emergencies safeguarding and material changes.

A realistic working scenario

The PA may assist with personal routines, meals, appointments, communication or community access, record an agreed task and contact the employer or nominated support after a change, accident or safeguarding concern.

Outputs to agree

  • reliable, person-directed support at agreed times
  • respectful assistance with daily and community routines
  • clear communication about changes, missed tasks and emerging risk

Records and evidence

  • Shift, task and handover notes.
  • Medication records where expressly assigned.
  • Expense, shopping or supported-money records.
  • Incident, wellbeing and safeguarding reports.
  • Care plans.
  • Care notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Registered Manager, Service Manager, Team Leader or Care Coordinator. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

  • List the support tasks and decisions the PA may make, who changes the arrangement and who provides emergency or clinical advice. Access to the person's home or money must not be treated as general authority.
  • Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

  • Care record systems.
  • Rostering systems.
  • Medication records where authorised.
  • Moving and handling equipment where trained.
  • Secure communication tools.

Workplace context

  • Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.

Training and certification

  • Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
  • Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

  • individual support scope and working relationship
  • hours, travel, outings and appointments
  • keys, property, money and expenses
  • privacy, medication, lone working and emergency cover

Information the employer should prepare

  • the individual employer and funding arrangement
  • the duties locations and personal-care scope
  • the hours cover holiday and contingency plan
  • the vehicle expenses and community activities
  • the medicine training and emergency arrangements

Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.

Maintained role evidence

The facts this Personal Assistant (PA Care) contract is built around

These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for social care work.

Work setting

Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.

Primary duties

  • Provide the individually agreed personal support.
  • Assist with home community and daily routines.
  • Respect autonomy privacy and household boundaries.
  • Maintain agreed hours expenses and care records.

Tools and training to confirm

  • Care record systems.
  • Rostering systems.
  • Medication records where authorised.
  • Moving and handling equipment where trained.

Governance focus

CQC context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering individual support scope and working relationship. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering hours, travel, outings and appointments. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering keys, property, money and expenses.

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Role wording

Personal Assistant (PA Care) duties

Deliver reliable, person-directed support at agreed times, respectful assistance with daily and community routines, and clear communication about changes, missed tasks and emerging risk.

Provide the individually agreed personal support. Assist with home community and daily routines. Respect autonomy privacy and household boundaries. Maintain agreed hours expenses and care records. Report emergencies safeguarding and material changes.

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What is added to the finished contract

List the support tasks and decisions the PA may make, who changes the arrangement and who provides emergency or clinical advice. Access to the person's home or money must not be treated as general authority.

Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering individual support scope and working relationship.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering hours, travel, outings and appointments.

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Frequently asked questions

How detailed should a care PA's duties be?

The contract or attached role profile should identify the actual personal, domestic, community and administrative support agreed, together with competence limits and a process for safe changes.

Can a personal assistant handle the employer's money?

Only under clear written controls for purchases, cash, cards, receipts, limits and reconciliation. The arrangement should protect both people and provide an immediate route for discrepancies or concerns.

Who directs the PA's daily work?

Identify the individual employer and any authorised representative.

Can duties change informally?

Routine choice is expected, but material scope changes should be agreed.

How is cover arranged?

Set absence notification and contingency responsibility.

Can the PA use their own car?

Only with agreed insurance, mileage and safety checks.

Are household tasks included?

List the support scope clearly.

How is privacy protected in a private home?

Apply strict boundaries to personal, family and household information.

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