#HC-03-42 The Role of Personal Assistants in Disability Support
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
UEA (University of East Anglia)Description
Improve working relationships between disabled people and personal assistants
Disabled people can now receive funding from their local authority to employ a personal assistant. While this gives them more personalised care in their own home, it also turns them into an employer.
This online course explores the role of personal assistance, and the risks and opportunities associated with it.
The course will encourage you to discuss ways to avoid and/or manage personal conflicts, whether you’re a disabled person or a personal assistant. It’s based on new evidence about the close working relationship between disabled people and their support workers – and how to improve it.
What topics will you cover?
- Introduction to Independent Living and Personal Assistance
- Recruitment: finding the right fit
- What sort of personal assistance relationship works for you?
- Understanding potential difficulties in personal assistance relationships
- Understanding and managing practical difficulties
- Understanding and managing personal difficulties
- Understanding and managing process difficulties
- Understanding and resolving conflict
- Moving forward with personal assistance relationships
Who will you learn with?
Tom Shakespeare
I am Professor of Disability Research at the University of East Anglia, with 30 years experience of researching with disabled people. I currently teach sociology to medical students.
Who developed the course?
UEA (University of East Anglia)
The University of East Anglia is an internationally renowned university providing top quality academic, social and cultural facilities to over 15,000 students from over 100 countries around the globe.
What Will I Learn?
- Assess the working relationships between personal assistants and employers
- Debate your own personal views about the personal assistance model
- Develop your skills as a personal assistant or employer
- Reflect on what a good working relationship looks like
- Identify how you would resolve conflict in a working relationship
Topics for this course
Orientation/re-orientation
Orientation Introduction00:05:27
Getting Started00:02:01
Organisation assistance
What do you think about the personal assistance model?
What working relationship do you want?
I think the most useful part of the course for me is the part about how to recruit: finding the right PA and how to manage the relationship with the ASSISTANT.
Whether you are disabled or a PERSONAL assistant, this course helps you to avoid and/or deal with personal conflicts. Very suitable for people with disabilities at home.
This course explores the role of personal assistance and the risks and opportunities associated with it. It's a great course.
The course revolves around how to improve the working relationship between the disabled and personal assistants. Disabled people can now get money from their local authorities to hire a personal assistant, but how to get along is a big problem.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is designed for disabled people, current or prospective personal assistants, and anyone else who’s interested in disability support and how this new role has evolved in the UK and other parts of the world.