Sheffield Help Yourself

A4e - (ILS) is a high quality self-directed support service for all disability groups (physical impairment and/or sensory impairment, learning disabilities, users of mental health services parents of children and young people, older people and carers).

A4e offers a range of services shaped around what service users are asking for. It empowers individuals to make choices in the way their care and support is delivered. The service is free to people eligible to access the support service via the local authority support service contract.

A4e has developed an extensive list of services for people who wish to access services privately. This is particularly helpful for people who have an assessment resulting in an indicative budget and Support Plan who would not be eligible to access support via the contracted support service.

Services Provided:

Offers advice and support to people who receive Direct Payments, including:

• Personal Budget Support Service (Brokerage) - designed to help you put together your support package and purchase services from home care agencies, community facilities etc.

• Managed Accounts - helping individuals with money management, to manage their care budget. The service holds your Personal Budget securely and undertakes all financial transactions on your behalf as well as undertaking any necessary returns and monitoring required by your funding organisation.

• Personal Budget Support Service (Employment) - Help to recruit a Personal Assistant (PA) and employ a Personal Assistant (PA), this includes : help with writing and placing an advert, application sifting, invitation to interview, interviewing candidates, successful candidate letter, CRB support, contract of employment, ongoing employment support, disciplinary/grievance/dismissal advice and disciplinary/grievance/dismissal support

• Payroll Services - offers peace of mind by calculating all the tax and National Insurance which needs to be deducted from your employee's wages and ensures you meet all your legal obligations around paying workers. Service includes:
- Processing of wages at either 4 weekly or monthly frequencies
- Pay slips generated and issued to the employer
- Payroll timesheet deadlines and pay schedules
- Unlimited advice and support regarding payroll legislation
- Production and submission of P45 when notified of an employee leaving
- All statutory payment calculations
- Submission of all end-of-year documents to HMRC and supply of P60s

• PA training - delivering common induction standards as a 2 day interactive training workshop designed for Personal Assistants (PA) and carers

Prices:

• Personal Budget Support Service (brokerage) package costs £120
• Managed Accounts package costs £312
• Personal Budget Support Service (employment) the standard package costs £216 and the premier package costs £432
• Payroll service package costs £156
• PA Training package costs £75

Qualifications & Quality Standards:

All the ILS team have an NVQ in Advice and Guidance to level 2 or 3, Sheffield City Council Support Plan trained. All staff are CRB checked.

Company limited by guarantee no 2631340.

All 4 One provides a full Support Planning service for anyone living in the North East of Sheffield. The service can help you to create and implement a Support Plan that is right for you, meets your needs and enables you to live the life you choose.

All 4 One caters for adults of all ages including: older people, people with learning disabilities, mental health issues, physical impairments, sensory impairments and substance misuse. This is a service for people who have had a Social Care Assessment and have an indicative budget.

Services Provided:

In preparing the support plan the Support Planner will:
• use your Social Care Assessment to identify your eligible needs
• listen to how you wish to live your life
• offer creative solutions to meet your needs
• prepare your plan to get it agreed
• help you put your plan into action
• ensure you stay in control
• reviewing Support Plans
• Provides Support Planning for Work Choice
• home visiting service - will travel to your home to Support Plan

In addition All 4 One provides:
• advice and information on Direct Payments
• recruiting Personal Assistants (PAs) - writing and placing an advert, application sifting, invitation to interview letters, interviewing candidates, successful candidate letter
• money management - can provide support for individuals to manage their Direct Payments, this includes advice on the different ways this can be done and by providing Managed Accounts for individuals
• payroll service - can provide a full payroll function, processing timesheets, providing payslips, HMRC requirements and year end reports
• tenancy support
• support with befriending / volunteering
• accessing local services

Prices:

If you have already received a letter from Sheffield City Council regarding your social care Indicative Budget and have a copy of your assessment then All 4 One can arrange to visit you.

Help to Recruit and Employ a PA package, the service is tailored to individual needs, the maximum cost for the full package would be £250.

Please contact for details of the costs for Payroll and Money Management services.

The first visit is free where they can get to know you and discuss the best ways in which they can help. Costs for Support Planning are charged at an hourly rate - £25 per hour work can be charged by the half hour if appropriate. You will not be expected to pay this from you own money - it will be included in your budget costs (this price has been provided by All 4 One, please check it yourself for accuracy).

Qualifications and Quality Standards:

All 4 One has been awarded Sheffield City Council's 'Recognised Provider' accreditation for its support planning service. All 4 One staff have completed Sheffield City Council's Support Planning training and have had 5+ plans signed off .

All 4 One ensures that their Support Planners are:
• Enhanced CRB (Criminal Record Bureau) checked
• fully trained in Support Planning and the Self Directed Support process
• always polite and courteous
• good at listening to you and understanding what you want
• committed to providing you with a Support Plan that meets your needs
Holds public liability, employers liability and professional indemnity insurance.

All 4 One is a service being delivered by Nomad Opening Doors (see separate entry).

A registered charity and company limited by guarantee no 3846994.
Charity No: 1078089

Amy's House is a charitable company limited by guarantee, governed by a voluntary board of directors. Amy's House's mission is to deliver joy to children with special needs and their families, whilst providing a safe environment - onsite, in the home, within the community and online - in which to learn and grow.

Amy's House caters for children aged 5-18 and provides Saturday and holiday sessions at Ballifield Primary School, Handsworth. Staff at Amy's House are experienced and have an empathetic approach. They work to reduce ignorance and prejudice faced by individuals with special needs through increasing awareness and understanding. The centre provides children with social interacton, care, education and exercise in a fun and stimulating environment, amongst a team of passionate and experienced carers who bring joy into their young lives.

Brokerage:

Amy’s House now offers a brokerage service to enable parents to choose how they organise their child’s care without having all the extra paper work.

Services provided:
• Amys's House will find you a qualified, CRB checked Personal Assistant (PA) to accompany your child to activities
• Provide support around employment law and arrange your Employment Liability Insurance
• Ensure your Personal Assistant has up-to-date safeguarding training and any other training relevant to your child’s needs
• Provide time sheets to record sessions and hours worked by Personal Assistant/s
• Payroll - Pay Personal Assistant monthly via bacs, pay HMRC the tax deducted and provide wage slips for your records
• Help setting up an additional bank account
• A familiar face - many of their personal assistants are already working with your child at Amy’s House, however if this is not the case, the service will arrange home visits to introduce them and allow time for your child to get to know their new PA and build a relationship
• Arrange bookings for the activities your child chooses to do e.g. swimming.
• Be available as a point of contact should you have any questions or concerns
• Can provide access to advice and information via their website

This support and all services will be covered in your costing’s for Direct Payments through the council so will be at no extra cost to you. All you need to do is inform the social worker responsible for your payments about the type of care you require and that Amy’s House will provide a brokerage service or if needed can manage your budget. They will then liaise with the Direct Payment team. Please contact for further information.

Prices:
• Saturday and holiday sessions currently charge a nominal fee of £1per hour
• No charge to the families for managing budget or brokerage service (these prices are provided by Amy's House, please check them yourself for accuracy)

A company limited by guarantee no 8419386.
Charity No: 1135553

Care Preference Ltd is a domiciliary care company supporting people with physical impairments specialising in supporting clients living with neuromuscular conditions (including older people). Care Preference offers personal assistants that can provide support to help clients live independently.

SERVICES PROVIDED:
• personal care
• home care, including cooking, cleaning, gardening etc.
• medication support - staff are trained by certified health professionals to deliver medical support including the administering of medication, prompting, physiotherapy and hydrotherapy
• respite care - staff can provide both planned and emergency respite care to people in their own homes
• sitting service

All personal care assistants are recruited with a full UK driving license and are able to drive service users in their own vehicles as well as being trained to use ramps etc. and assisting clients with using public transport. Assistants can therefore provide support with getting out and about, hospital visits or appointments as well as offering social support allowing clients take part in social activities, cultural and learning opportunities and trips out.

Care Preference staff can also provide employment, professional or academic support including admin, filing, typing, scribing and telephone support, this service can be tailor made to fit the needs of the service user.

Having relevant experience in providing support to individuals with neuromuscular conditions Care Preference can offer an advocacy service to ensure users receive all the services they may require and inform and guide clients as their condition evolves.

In addition Care Preference have workers providing services around Direct Payments:
• advice and guidance to clients with regards to Direct Payments and inform users of the services they are entitled to and which funding avenues may be open to them
• help to recruit a Personal Assistant (PA) and employ a Personal Assistant (PA) if a client wants to employ an assistant directly rather than through a care agency, this includes: writing and placing an advert, application sifting, invitation to interview, interviewing candidates, successful candidate letter, CRB support, contract of employment, ongoing employment advice, ongoing employment support, disciplinary/grievance/dismissal advice and disciplinary/grievance/dismissal support
• brokerage
• money management including a full managed account service
• offers a comprehensive and efficient payroll service for clients including payslips

PRICES:
Service charges are £11.90 per hour, a sleep-in night costs £70 per night (based on one-to-one support). Charges for the advocacy service can range from free to £50 per hour, depending on requirements. These prices are provided by Care Preference, please check them yourself for accuracy.

AREAS SERVED: Care Preference services cover the whole of Sheffield S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S11, S12, S13, S14, S17, S20, S35 & S36.

QUALIFICATIONS & QUALITY STANDARDS:
Care Preference is managed by Neil James who has 8 years experience and has a BSc in Human Organisations. All staff are CRB checked and go through a rigorous recruitment process (which the service user can be involved in). Staff must then complete 50 hours of training before they can commence their duties, as well as receiving ongoing training and development.

Registered and inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to ensure a quality service is provided.

Service users are involved all aspects of the service they receive from planning to recruitment and staff reviews.

Company limited by guarantee no 7230659.

Citizenship First is a not-for-profit organisation that specialises in providing support to people with learning disabilities.

Services Provided:

The service has a dedicated team who offer support and advice and who will work with you to create a Support Plan showing how you intend to use your Individual Budget/Personal Budget. If required the team can also offer a Brokerage service which can assist you to find providers and the right people to support you and help you undertake activities.
• Specialism - learning disabilities

As support plan needs vary from person to person Citizenship First offers a menu type service where you can select the most appropriate planning service for you and achieve the best value for money.

Depending on your needs, your Support Planner can:
• help you to map out the services you require in order to meet your needs, to keep you safe and help you live a full, active and independent life
• work with you to create and write your Support Plan for submission to the local authority
• arrange meetings with service providers putting you in control of who you employ
• support you to recruit a Personal Assistant (PA), source any training required and set up a payroll service
• provide support for 12 weeks following the creation of your Support Plan
• attend a 12 week review with you to ensure the support plan you have created is working for you.

Prices:

Prices vary depending on the level and complexity of the Support Planning required, service prices start at £20 per hour. There are 4 levels of support, all Support Planning/Brokerage services are available on a menu basis and you can choose the elements you require from each level.

Level 1 (15 hour package) includes:
• mapping out your needs and identifying who can meet those needs
• developing a Support Plan for submission
• support to arrange and meet service providers
• support to attend service provider meetings
• support relating to services for 12 weeks after the initial Support Plan

Levels 2-4 include the above as well as support to advertise and recruit a PA up to the point of issuing a job offer letter. The higher price of these levels reflect the increased complexity of the Support Planning Brokerage service offered.

Level 1 (15 hour package) - £300
Level 2 (28.5 hour package) - £570
Level 3 (37 hour package) - £740
Level 4 (54.5 hour package) - £1090

Initial meeting and telephone assessment are free of charge. The package costs listed above are guideline prices.

Citizenship First can also help you to recruit a Personal Assistant (PA) and employ a Personal Assistant PA and offer the following menu of services:
• writing and placing an advert - £29.94
• application sifting - £3.74 per application
• invitation to interview letters - £2.75 per candidate
• interviewing candidates (2 interviewers) - £36.87 per candidate
• successful candidate letter - £2.75 per candidate
• CRB support - completion of CRB - £3.74 per person
• CRB check (standard inc. VAT) - £41.40 per person
• CRB check (enhanced inc. VAT) - £53.40 per person
• contract of employment - £44.94 per person

The cost to employ 2 PAs with the full services listed above is estimated to cost £449.84 with standard CRB or £473.84 with enhanced CRB.

A range of appointee services are also available. These financial services include:
• Payroll - £5.95 per month for each employee up to 5 employees. £3.50 per month for each additional employee there after
• end of year administration - £25.00
• management of an Individual Service Fund, payment of invoices, reconciling of funds, issuing statement of account - £5.96 per week

All prices are provided by Citizenship First, please check them yourself for accuracy.

Qualifications & Quality Standards:

Inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to ensure a quality service is delivered. All staff are either working towards or have NVQ level 2 in Care Work. Some are qualified to NVQ level 4 and beyond. All staff are CRB checked.
Support Planners have attended Sheffield City Council's Support Planning training and have had 5+ plans signed off by the council.

Enable Care and Home Support can help with setting up a support package that is right for you, providing you with assistance to live a good home life and to help to develop and maintain routines around work, education and leisure in the community. Enable Care and Home Support think developing good support is about building partnerships with people and their family, friends and their community.

Enable Care and Home Support will do whatever they can to keep you in control and make their services accountable to you and your representatives. They want to make the process of securing good support to live your life as trouble and stress free as possible.

Enable Care and Home Support work with people who need some extra support which can include older people, people with learning disabilities, people with physical and/or sensory impairments.

Provides an individual menu of options to suite you. Support that will help you develop and maintain your independence and secure your rights to effective care and support, including help to:
• develop a Support Plan led by you, describing your needs and what you want to achieve
• clarify issues around consent and capacity and help support people with making decisions and being in control
• recruit, employ and manage your own staff / personal assistant (PA) employed by you or your representatives. This can include: writing and placing an advert, application sifting, invitation to interview, interviewing candidates, successful candidate letter, CRB support including CRB checking, contract of employment, ongoing employment advice, ongoing employment support, disciplinary/grievance/dismissal advice, disciplinary/grievance/dismissal support
• access good information and research options around who provides your support
• connect you with independent advice, support and advocacy should you want it
• think about your housing options including help to identify and secure a suitable home
• provide you with a payroll service
• managed accounts
• complete CRB checks on your staff
• provide or access appropriate training for your staff
• manage your care funding: supporting you to manage your direct payment or hold a personal budget on your behalf
• review benefit entitlements and welfare rights issues
It is by working honestly and in partnership with people that engage with us that we can help develop good support options with people.
There is a great team to draw from for information and expertise, including people that use our services who want to help others, Enable's employees, housing specialists, occupational therapists, independent social workers, nurses and welfare and benefits advice worker. Contact Tom to discuss how Enable can help with your support and / or housing options.

Prices:

Support Planning service is charged at £25 per hour. The cost of this service should be included as part of your personal budget.

Qualifications and Quality Standards:

Enable is registered and inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to ensure a quality service is provided. All staff are CRB checked and qualified to NVQ level 2 or are working towards this qualification.

A registered charity and company limited by guarantee no 2488821.
Charity No: 1001704

HFT is a national charity with a local focus supporting over 80 individuals with learning disabilities across the Sheffield area. HFT offers a Support Planning service to individuals with complex needs and people with an acquired brain injury (including people with learning disabilities, people with physical impairments and/or sensory impairments and older people).

Profile:

• HFT has 1 Support Planner, Dawn Storey:
• Gender - Female
• Aged - 25-55 years
• Hobbies include - Reading, swimming and shopping
• Specialism - learning disabilities including those with complex needs and people with acquired brain injuries
• HFT offices are based in Heeley (S2) and Dawn lives in the Handsworth area (S9/S13) but works throughout the city
• Home visiting service - will travel to your home to Support Plan
• Can offer group Support Planning as well as for the individual

Services Provided:

If you have a Personal Budget, HFT can help you to plan the support you need. They will work with a client to find out what their needs are and then match the client with the provider or staff who can best meet their needs. HFT currently provide case management and Brokerage to people who are self-funding or who have a personal health budget. Provides a Support Planning service which, supports clients with employing staff, managing money, advice and information. HFT also offer a payroll and managed account services.

The service aims to support people to be as independent as they possibly can and to exert as much choice and control in their lives as possible. Whatever your circumstances, the service can help you plan and achieve the important things you want from life.

Prices:

Support Planning is charged at an hourly rate £14.75 per hour (this price has been supplied by HFT, please check it yourself for accuracy).

Qualifications & Quality Standards:

All staff have been Enhanced CRB checked and are qualified to NVQ2/diploma standard. HFT has been operating for over 50 years. It is registered and inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and has a 3 star rating. Provides support to people in a person-centred way, supporting people and involving them in the planning of the services they need. HFT holds full insurance.
The Support Planner has attended Sheffield City Council's Support Planning training and has had 2 plans signed off by the council.
Charity No: 313069

HomeCareDirect (HCD) provides a national service which enables people who have Personal Budgets to be in control of their own support at home. The support complies with Care Quality Commission and National Essential Standards of Quality and Safety.

HCD caters for older people, children and young people, people with learning disabilities, people with mental health issues, people with physical impairments and/or sensory impairments. The service from HCD can include all specialist services to meet the needs of individual clients.

HCD was established in 2003 and recognises that people who use Personal Budgets/Direct Payments to choose and employ their own personal carers have the downside of being their legal employer with all the legislation and paperwork that comes with this responsibility. HCD remove this by allowing individuals or families to choose personal carers themselves then HCD employ's them on the individual's behalf.

HCD are passionate about enabling individuals to have control and the choice to find their ideal carer(s) and clients who use HCD are free to arrange their day to day support to suit their own needs and routines. Personal carers can be neighbours, friends, family members or someone found through their joint recruitment process. If training is required HCD will work with you to arrange tailored training for your personal carers that matches your specific needs.

HCD offers help and advice in setting up your package and a dedicated Care Support Officer as well as a 24/7 telephone service to support you in managing your support package.

Services Provided:

• Providing guidance, help and support for individuals to be in control of their own support at home
• HCD becomes the Legal Employer of Personal Carers chosen by you
• Help to recruit a Personal Assistant (PA) helping clients to advertise, interview and select the appropriate person or people to provide their support, this includes: writing and placing an advert, application sifting, invitation to interview, interviewing candidates, successful candidate letter, CRB support including CRB checking
• HCD takes full responsibility for all employment and provides a Personal Carer Payroll Service which deals with all matters relating to payroll, including: PAYE, Tax, Payroll, National Insurance, employee liability insurance, holidays, sick pay and pension
• Legal assistance with employment law and any grievances and issues arising from care
• Person specific training. Your staff trained purely for your needs, leading to lower training costs
• 24-hour support for client and Personal Carer
• Clients can manage their own budgets, and have as much or as little control as they want
• Individual client managed accounts – set up on your behalf to hold your Personal Budget
• Support through the process of a Care Needs Assessment

Individuals who work with HCD have used their Personal Budget/Direct Payment to pay for a wide variety of services, including: help with personal care, cooking, cleaning, shopping, medication support, support in the community, sitting service, transport, support to attend cultural and social activities and meeting religious needs, befriending service and craft activities.
Services such as befriending, social activities and cookery would typically be undertaken by local charities and local voluntary groups working in partnership with HCD.

Prices:

HomeCareDirect charge an hourly rate of £2.50 per hour of support for their services. The full cost of the service is built up in partnership with the client and the funding authority after care needs have been assessed and Personal Carer pay rates decided. A purely indicative price range can be from £11.50 per hour up to £19 per hour, however, each support package is different and individually designed. These prices have been supplied by Homecaredirect Limited, please check them yourself for accurary.

Areas served:

HCD covers all of Sheffield, postal districts S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S11, S12, S13, S14, S17, S20, S35 and S36.

Qualifications & Quality Standards:

HCD is registered and inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to ensure a quality service is provided and has been in business for 8 years. All personal carers employed by HomeCareDirect on an individual’s behalf are CRB checked. Holds Public Liability, Employers Liabiity and Professional Indemnity insurance.

Founded by Roger Adams ex founding chairman of Sheffield Association of Home Care providers.

Company limited by guarantee no 4731807.

IDK Support 4 You is a service for people (including older people, people with learning disabilities, physical impairments and/or sensory impairments, people with mental health issues and people in transition) in Sheffield who have received an Indicative Personal Budget following a needs assessment for Self Directed Support and who are looking for help to complete their Support Plans, manage their budget or need support with payrolls. IDK Support for You is afamily run business which has over 32 years experience working in social services.

Profile:

IDK have 4 Support Planners.
• Gender - Female
• Aged - under 25 years, 25-55 years, over 55 years
• Hobbies include - reading, swimming and walking
• Has a portfolio of their work for you to view
• Covers the whole of Sheffield
• Provides a home visiting service - will travel to your home to Support Plan

Specialist Knowledge - IDK has Support Planners who are experienced in working with people with autism, complex needs, dementia, substance dependency and misuse problems, Huntingtons, Parkinsons, Multiple Sclerosis and people who have have suffered a stroke, a brain injury or a spinal injury as well as children and young people.

Services Provided:

• Support Planning
IDK Support 4 You provides advice, information and Support Planning to people receiving an Individual Budget/Direct Payments including help with finances and signposting. Provides support for 12 weeks following the creation of the plan and will attend a review with you to ensure the Support Plan is working.
Provides a home visiting service - will travel to your home to Support Plan.

• Managed Accounts
IDK Support 4 You provides support receiving your Individual Budget and manages this on your behalf so that all the bills for your care are paid for and all the correspondence is handled for you. You can have as little or as much control over the process as you wish.

• Payroll Service
IDK Support 4 You provides support with employing your own staff, hours worked ( this includes timesheets, providing payslips and/or paying staff on behalf of an employer), tax and sorting out all other legal aspects.

• IDK can also offer support to clients to help deal with with bills and correspondence etc.

• Offers appointeeships to manage personal money for clients.

Areas Served: IDK Support 4 You services cover the whole of Sheffield S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S11, S12, S13, S14, S17, S20, S35 & S36.

Prices:

• Supporting Planning cost can vary depending on the complexity of the Support Planning required and time taken. The Support Plan will be reviewed after 12 weeks and then transferred back to the local authority. Support Planning is charged at £20 per hour.

• Managed Accounts
There are 3 levels of managed accounts:
Level 1 from £250-350 per year - Simple care arrangements, home care packages and day care
Level 2 from £350-450 per year - More complicated budgets with different aspects of care. 2 providers, respite, activities and travel costs
Level 3 from £450-550 per year - Multiple components, this includes everything at the first 2 levels plus financial monitoring

• Payroll

Payroll Level 1
Set up fee of £30, timesheets/payslips x 12, holiday forms, end of tax year returns, cost of this service £270

Payroll Level 2
Set up fee of £30, timesheets/payslips x 12, holiday forms, end of year tax returns paid by BACS, cost of this service £330

Bills & Correspondence support service costs between £150-250 per year depending on the amount of support required.

Appointeeships cost £39 to set (2 visits), £26 per week to manage personal money/take cash out each week, £15 per week for any additional visits.

These prices are provided by IDK Support 4 You, please check them yourself for accuracy.

Qualifications and Quality Standards:

All staff are CRB checked. The combined experience of the staff amounts to over 50 years experience of working for social services or in an NHS hospital in various settings and with various client groups. Other qualifications include accountancy, book keeping NVQ, Sage 50 Payroll, ITQ level 1/2.
Has Public Liability and Employers Liability insurance.

Inspire (UK) can provide Support Planning and Brokerage services for clients in receipt of Direct Payments and can help clients to recruit and employ a Personal Assistant. Support provision is available to individuals with physical impairments and/or sensory impairments, people with learning disabilities, older people, people with Alzheimers or dementia, people with mental health issues and those with a long-term illness.

Profile:

• Inspire (UK) has 5 bilingual Support Planners
• Gender - Female & Male.
• Aged - 25-55 years
• Specialism - adult with disabilities and people from BME communities, one planner is a qualified Social Worker
• Based in the Burngreave area but will provide a city wide service
• Specialist knowledge - knowledge of Asian and Muslim communities
• Additional languages - Arabic, Punjabi, Somali, Urdu
• Home visiting service - will travel to your home to Support Plan
• Can provide a group planning service
• Has a portfolio of their work for you to view

Services Provided:

• Offers a Support Planning and Brokerage service for Direct Payment holders which can include formally submitting Support Plans to Social Services for approval
• Help to recruit a Personal Assistant (PA), this includes:
writing and placing an advert, application sifting, invitation to interview, interviewing candidates, successful candidate letter,
CRB support and ensures an enhanced CRB check is completed annually, checking full employment history, medical history and full 5 years references
• Help to employ a Personal Assistant (PA), this includes:
contract of employment, ongoing employment advice, ongoing employment support, disciplinary/grievance/dismissal advice, disciplinary/grievance/dismissal support
• Offers a full Managed Account service
• Offers a flexible Payroll service (providing payslips or providing payslips and paying staff on an employers behalf)

Prices:

• The Support Planning and Brokerage service for Direct Payment holders is charge at a hourly rate of £22.50 per hour, package prices available
• The recruitment and employment service is currently charged at £110
• The charge for an enhanced CRB check is currently £55
• Payroll service prices vary according to requirements, please contact for details
These prices are provided by Inspire (UK), please check them yourself for accuracy.

Qualifications & Quality Standards:

Registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to ensure a quality service is provided.
Inspire (UK) is a social enterprise managed by a qualified social worker registered with the General Social Care Council (GSCC) and who has 11 years social work experience. Inspire's care staff are progressed onto NVQ Levels 2 & 3 in Support and Care Assistance.
Support Planners have attended Sheffield City Council's Support Planning training and have had 2+ plans signed off by the council.

The Journey Productions is a start up enterprise supporting young people and adults who want to have a better quality of life and who want to help improve their situation and live a more independent healthy life, suited to support their every changing needs. Aims to tackle some of the personal and social challenges that prevent people from making positive steps to achieve their dreams, independence and aspirations.

The Journey Productions can support people with a support need including people with physical impairments and/or sensory impairments, health conditions, learning disabilities, people with Autistic Spectrum disorders, ADHD, people with mental health issues, carers, older people, children and young adults and people from BME communities.

Services Provided:

• Support Planning - Offers a Support Planning service which helps you to create your own Support Plan which will then be submitted to Sheffield City Council for approval. The service offers a range of different ways to develop a Support Plan including a Creative Support Plan option which can involve the client using different mediums in their plan such as dvd, graphics or musical elements.

Prices:

Fees for the Support Plan service are calculated at an hourly rate of £15 per hour which includes travel costs and "sign off". For home visits there is an additional charge of £3 per hour. These prices have been supplied by The Journey Productions, please check them yourself for accuracy.

• Home Support - Lifestyle Management services can deliver help with cooking, eating and staying healthy, meal plans, cleaning, laundry and shopping

• Help to recruit a Personal Assistant (PA) and employ a Personal Assistant (PA), this includes: help with writing and placing an advert, application sifting, invitation to interview, interviewing candidates, successful candidate letter, CRB support, contract of employment, ongoing employment support

• Transport - can offer a pick up and drop off service. Journey Productions have a number of workers who are willing to take you where you wish to travel

• Social, cultural and learning opportunities - offers various activities, projects, events, training and workshops. These include help to improve your wellbeing, career and employment progression and creative arts opportunities

• Employment Support - offers a variety of support for those who feel they can work or want to work including providing Support Planning for Work Choice

Also provides support to people in receipt of Direct Payments including:
• Advice and information for service users with regards to Direct Payments
• Coaching drop-in sessions where you can discuss employment and career opportunities and receive advice on starting your own business
• Brokerage and Advocacy service, offering health plans, personal development plans, retirement plans and work plans. Tell Journey Productions what you need and they will source it for you and set up links to other business, organisations, services, products or activities that are applicable to meeting your plan
• Payroll services - paying staff, Personal Assistants (PAs) and suppliers

Provides a Lifestyle Management Service offering lifestyle plans such as health, wellbeing and retirement plans, personal development, career or employment plans and creative development plans. Charges apply, please contact for details.

Prices start from £6-25 per job or hourly rate. These prices are provided by Journey Productions, please check them yourself for accuracy.

Qualifications & Quality Standards:

All staff will be CRB checked. Diane has over 15 years experience working in community development, social settings and community arts. She is currently studying for a BSA degree in Working with Communities at the University of Sheffield and has extensive experience and knowledge in business management, music production, health and wellbeing related areas.

Diane has attended Sheffield City Council's Support Planning training but currently has had no plans signed off by the council.

The Journey Productions is a Social Enterprise, Not-for-Profit business.

Lynx Care (UK) Ltd is a well established family run business providing services to people in receipt of an Individual Budget or Direct Payments who have a support need. This includes older people, people with learning disabilities, people with physical impairments and/or sensory impairments and people with dementia.

Support Planning and Brokerage Service:

• Lynx will identify with you what services you require
• source who can deliver them
• support plan within the Indicative Budget
• implement and arrange services as instructed
• monitor quality and prices of services
• support you to review your achievements and outcomes

Price: £21 per hour.

Money Management Service:

Lynx Care can manage your account on your behalf paying invoices for your care and dealing with all correspondence, you choose how much control you want over the process:
• Level 1 is for people who have simple care arrangement such as a single care provider or daycare - and also covers slightly more complicated budgets with up to 3 providers.
• Level 2 is for complex budgets, involving multiple components. This level contains everything in level 1, financial monitoring support and payroll services for up to 3 employees plus as many visits as are needed to ensure everything is running smoothly.

Prices:
• Level 1 costs £250 per year
• Level 2 costs £450 per year
(Discounts will apply when using Lynx Home Care services)

PA Services:

• Payroll
- Payroll Services Level 1 (£248) - includes timesheets, payslips and payroll management (including end of year return)
- Payroll Services Level 2 (£320) - as for level 1 and includes monthly direct debit to PA

• Direct Employment of a PA or PAs
Direct and ongoing employment of PA by Lynx - including contracts, payroll, training, revision of care plan, risk assessment, grievance and disciplinary procedures.
Price £14.25 per hour

• Recruitment Service of PA
Comprehensive recruitment package for PA including initial home visit to understand your specific needs, job description, advertisements, interviewing, reference checks, employment contracts, CRB checks, risk assessment and training if needed.
Price £18 per hour (including additional costs such as advertising etc)

All prices shown are provided by Lynx Care, please check them yourself for accuracy.

Areas Served:
Lynx covers all areas of Sheffield, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S11, S12, S13, S14, S17, S35 & S36, and surrounding areas (Managed Accounts service is available nationwide).

Qualifications and Quality Standards:

Lynx Care is registered and inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). 6 members of staff have completed Support Planning certification with Sheffield City Council (and 2 pending). Lynx Care has already had over 70 Support Plans completed and accepted.

Lynx care staff have over 60 years combined experience in social care as senior and middle managers for local authorities and the NHS. Their qualifications include Social Care Certificate in Social Sciences(CSS) 3 years Social work training, RSA in counselling, D32- D33 NVQ assessor and D36 internal verifier, Certificate in Management and Business Studies with Hallam University, Dementia Care Mapping & all mandatory training. (BTEC) Certificate in Business and Finance, NVQ 4 Registered Managers award, Advanced Management in Care, D32-D33 Assessor award in Service and in Social Care, NVQ Social Care Award. CMS (Professional Certificate in Management Studies), Foundation degree in
Social Sciences, BA (Hons) degree.
Support Planners have attended Sheffield City Council's Support Planning training and have had 5+ plans signed off by the council.

My Budget Brokerage is an independent, not for profit brokerage organisation which provides advice and support to enable people using Direct Payments to make the right choices for them. The agency helps clients to access relevant information in order to make informed choices about their care provision and how they live their lives.

Experienced staff are available to deliver person centred planning across a range of support needs ranging from the basic to the most complex. The service is offered throughout Sheffield and appointments can be arranged in your own home or held at the office.

Profile:

My Budget Brokerage has a number of Support Planners:
Gender - Female
Aged - 25-55 years
Specialisms - caters for older people, people with physical impairments and/ or sensory impairments, those on the autistic spectrum or with Aspergers Syndrome, people with complex needs, people with learning disabilities, people with substance dependency and carers.

My Budget Brokerage is based in the City Centre (S3), but works in all areas of Sheffield.
Has experience of working with people from ethnic minorities.
Has a portfolio of their work for you to view

Services Provided:

Services provided by My Budget Brokerage include:
• Support Planning (including group Support Planning if required)
• A full recruitment package to assist you to recruit a Personal Assistant (PA), this includes: writing and placing an advert, application sifting, invitation to interview, interviewing candidates and successful candidate letter (and unsuccessful)
• Help to employ a Personal Assistant (PA), this includes: employment support for the hiring and management of PA's, payroll and payslips, contract of employment, CRB support, ongoing employment advice, ongoing employment support, disciplinary/grievance/dismissal advice, disciplinary/grievance/dismissal support.
• Transition Support
• Advocacy
• Training
• Travel Agency/Respite care/Short breaks
• Money Management/Third Party Managed Account
• Assistive Technology
• Home visiting service

Prices:

A free initial 1 hour assessment is offered where the client can meet their broker who will then assess the complexity of the individuals requirements and give a total price for their service.
• Support planning services are charged at either an hourly rate of £18 per hour (not capped) or £25 per hour (capped at £300 ie 12 hours)
• Personal Assistant recruitment costs start at £160.00 (not including an enhanced CRB check)
• Managed account starts at £350.00 per annum, this could include certain payroll functions
• For all other services prices charged range from £17.50 to £20.00 per hour, however please contact for pricing costs as various price packages may be available and costs may be negotiated
(these prices are provided by My Budget Brokerage, please check them yourself for accuracy).

Qualifications and Quality Standards:

All staff are CRB checked and have attended Sheffield City Council's Support Plan training and have had 5+ plans signed off. My Budget Brokerage is a member of the Adsetts Partnership.
Has Public Liability, Employer's Liability and Professional Indemnity insurance.

My Choice Local is a not-for-profit organisation based in Sheffield, who offer a number of services to support people to make the most of their Personal Budget / Direct Payments. The service caters for people with physical impairments and/or sensory impairments, autism, learning disabilities, mental health issues, older people and people with dementia.

Payroll Service:

My Choice provides a payroll service to people with support needs who employ their own care staff or personal assistants (PA).

They will:
• Contact the Inland Revenue on your behalf
• Complete deduction sheets for tax, NI deductions, holiday pay and statutory sick pay if appropriate
• Provide payslips for employees
• Provide support with monitoring forms
• Provide support to set up a third-party bank account
• Produce a payslip having deducted the correct tax and national insurance, so that you can pay your carer(s) on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis, whichever you choose

They will also liaise with the Inland Revenue to:
• Register you as a new employer
• Help to employ a Personal Assistant (PA), this includes: a contract of employment, CRB support, ongoing employment advice, ongoing employment support, disciplinary/grievance/dismissal advice, disciplinary/grievance/dismissal support
• Process end of year paperwork such as the P60
• Process end of employment when a carer ceases to work for you by issuing a P45
• Store your payroll records for future reference – if needed (ensuring they comply with Data Protection legislation)
• Help with any other issues relating to payroll
Let My Choice assist you with all aspects of payroll.

Prices:

• An initial set up fee of £15 is charged for each carer (or employee) – this includes the 1st payslip
• Payslip costs - £4.50 per payslip for 1st employee, £3 for each additional employee
• End of year accounts cost £40

These prices are provided by My Choice Local, please check them yourself for accuracy.

Third-Party Bank Accounts:

Direct Payments (DP) offers you as much control as possible over your social care funding, DP regulations require you to have a separate bank account to receive your funds. There are two main reasons why you may want My Choice Local to manage this bank account for you:
• You may feel the extra work would be a burden on your lifestyle
• You may not feel capable of setting up and managing payments to PAs and other service providers

If My Choice Local open a third-party bank account for you, this is what they will do:-
• They will obtain signed consent from you
• They will open a Managed 3rd Party account in your name
• They will forward account details to the Local Authority. finance department so Direct Payments can be paid into it
• Once funds are in place, they will make payments for you
My Choice Local keep a full record of all payments on file in compliance with Local Authority monitoring requirements.

Prices:
Third-party Managed Accounts costs range from £230 up to £675 dependant on the level of support required. These prices are supplied by My Choice Local, please check them yourself for accuracy.

Qualifications & Quality Standards:

My Choice Local go to great efforts when recruiting staff, all workers are CRB checked and all new staff attend a comprehensive induction with skills for care which covers their new roles, the personalisation agenda and person-centred planning. Mandatory training is provided for new employees and refresher training for existing staff in all areas.

Company limited by guarantee no 8221704.

Spectrum Social Care understands that employing and managing Personal Assistants (PAs) can be a daunting prospect for some people, but recognize that Personal Assistants often bring a lot of support and flexibility to individual’s lives. Provides support for older people, people with learning disabilities, physical impairment and/or sensory impairment, people on the autistic spectrum and people with mental health needs.

If you would like help to recruit and employ PA's Spectrum can provide you with a service to help. The service has a pool of Personal Assistants with a range of skills and availability. They can introduce you to a PA from their pool or they can recruit someone you have already chosen on your behalf.

You can choose to employ a PA from the pool and manage them yourself and undertake all of the paperwork such as time sheets and audits, or you can ask Spectrum to oversee every aspect of your PA’s employment.

Services Provided:

• Pool of PA’s
• Employ your own PA that you have chosen
• Help to recruit PA’s
• Payroll Service
• Contracts
• CRB checks
• Managed Accounts

Prices:

Prices vary depending on what level of assistance you need to employ your Personal Assistants.

• Employ a PA from the pool – PA pay levels start at minimum wage per hour
• Employ your own PA that you have chosen – starting from minimum wage per hour
• To provide a payroll service for your PA’s costs £30 set up fee, then £4.32 per wage slip plus £30 end of year returns to HMRC
• Managed Account (to include all of the above plus audit on your behalf to the Local Authority) - costs £250, plus £30 set up fee
• If you take out both Payroll and Managed Account services, only one set up fee of £30 is charged
• To advertise, interview, recruit and set up contracts of employment and training package please speak to the office for a personal set up cost

These services are available all year round (office not available on Bank Holidays).

Area Served:
Spectrum Social Care covers all postal code areas of Sheffield, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S11, S12, S13, S14, S17, S20, S35 & S36.

Qualifications and Quality Standards:

All Personal Assistants recruited through the PA's R Us pool will have references and you can request that your Personal Assistants have an Enhanced Vetting & Barring check (CRB).

Penderels Trust is an established provider of Direct Payments and Personal Budget advice with over 20 years experience of working with people with disabilities to enable them to live independently and be active in their local community. The Trust is a not-for-profit organisation.

The Trust provides support services locally in Sheffield and supports all disability groups including: physical impairments and/or sensory impairments, learning disabilities, disabled parents in a parenting role, older people, mental health service users, people living with HIV/Aids related illness, children and young people, carers, young carers and families.

Services Provided:

• Penderels provides advice and information to Direct Payments holders covering choice of provision, costs, payroll, becoming an employer, legal working regulations, Employers Liability Insurance, employment law, risk assessment, job descriptions / person specification / terms and conditions
• Penderels is a registered vetting agency for the Criminal Records Bureau
• Direct Payment support services (e.g. recruiting and employing a Personal Assistant (PA), help with choosing and using a care agency)
• Help to recruit a Personal Assistant (PA) and help to employ a Personal assistant (PA), this includes: writing and placing an advert, application sifting, devising a job description and a person specification, invitation to interview, interviewing candidates, successful candidate letter, CRB support, contract of employment, ongoing employment support and ongoing employment advice, disciplinary/grievance/dismissal advice, disciplinary/grievance/dismissal support. Penderels has experience of providing this service to parents of disabled children and young people in transition. Penderels runs "Good Employer Workshops" for customers who have been employing staff for over a year.
• Money Management
• Third party supported accounts (managed accounts)
• Appointeeships (where Penderels Trust manages the care funding and personal money of an individual)
• Money Mentoring, a preventative service that avoids the ongoing cost and responsibility of an appointeeship or a managed account and helps individuals to manage their own daily budgets in an ongoing capacity
• Support Planning and Brokerage - full support from an experienced team to help produce clear, outcome-focused plans. Also provides brokerage support to achieve goals and changes in the plan in the most appropriate and cost effective way

The Trust has a Payroll Bureau, which currently supports over 7000 people to pay their employed staff accurately and on time. They also offer a direct debit (BACS) service to enable individual employers to pay their staff directly. The Trust works to strict deadlines and is committed to setting up customers within 7 days.

Penderels Trust's approach is to place choice and control in the hands of those who use their services, whilst providing support where necessary to ensure goals are achieved safely and effectively. Services are continually reviewed to ensure they reflect the changing needs of users, carers and families.

Prices:

• Set Up Packages
- Basic Level: 2-hour initial visit only - £50
- Medium level: 10 hours of support - £200
- High Level: 22 hours of support - £440
- £66 per CRB check

• Ongoing Support
- Ongoing support (including telephone and home visits) is charged at £20/hour
£25 per quarter for completion of financial returns
£40 per quarter for completion of financial returns plus a home visit

• Third Party supported account: £340 for basic package, additional charges for extra funding streams and home visit

• Appointeeships - 5 options
- Community Basic - £800 per annum (pa)
- Community Standard - £1000 pa
- Community Enhanced - £1300 pa
- Residential Basic - £400 pa
- Residential Enhanced - £700 pa

• Payroll charges are based on the number of payslips issued:
- £6 per payslip for those on a standard payroll service
- £7.25 for those paying by direct debit
- one off set up fee of £40 per employer, plus an end of year return to HMRC of £20 for employers with 1employee and £40 for employers with 2 or more employees

• Support Planning costs £20 per hour. Typically a low level need plan will require up to 6 hours of Support Planning (£150). A medium level of need plan may require 7-12 hours of Support Planning (£288). A high level of need plan will require 13-20 hours of Support Planning (£460)

The prices above are provided by Penderels Trust, please check them yourself for accuracy.

Qualifications & Quality Standards:

Staff are CRB checked. Penderels Independent Living Advisers (ILAs) are expected to achieve NVQ level 2 in Advice and Guidance. Staff undergo regular and refresher training in Employment Law, Child/Adult safeguarding procedures, disciplinaries and grievances, Risk Assessment level 2, Health and Safety Law & Practice, interviewing skills, appraisals, presentation skills, assertiveness skills, combatting bullying and harrassment, equality and diversity training, working towards and monitoring outcomes, person-centred planning skills and understanding carers.
Support Planners have attended Sheffield City Council's Support Planning training and have had 2+ plans signed off by the council.

Staff are available who are fluent in British Sign Language and Makaton and can help with some communication systems such as AAC, signing, PECS, Cueing, Communication Aids etc. Can offer communication in easy-read formats with picture-supported English, visual plan aids, colour combination choices etc. It can be supplied in CD Rom or tape form. All information is approved by Penderels' Readers Group. Holds Public Liability, Employers' Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance.
Charity No: 1073513

Personalisation Plus offers help and support to people who need assistance in managing a Personal Budget/Direct Payments (including older people, children and young people, people with learning disabilities, mental health issues and people with physical impairments and/or sensory impairments). Staff have experience in both adult and children's services, with expertise relating to learning disabilities, mental health, autistic spectrum and Aspergers Syndrome.

Personalisation Plus works across the whole of Sheffield and offers home visits, with brokers working evenings and weekends for customer convenience.

Services Provided:

The agency offers an independent Support Planning and Brokerage service for people who want to be in control of their care. Personalisation Plus specialises in complex support planning for people on the autistic spectrum, aspergers and mental health using qualified social workers for comprehensive support planning and peer support planners for people who just need a little guidance.
Specialism - mental health

The service can:
• use a person-centred process to explore what is important to the client and how best to support them
• design support to suit the person's needs and lifestyle choices
• explore other potential funding and benefits
• where capacity to consent is questioned they explore and clarify decision making processes
• help people think about how they will take control of their life and foster their independence and living skills
• help people to think about what risks there might be and how they can manage these risks
• write a person-centred, outcome-focused Support Plan
• provide information and support to enable people to know how to access services
• provide support to recruit a Personal Assistant (PA), this includes: writing and placing an advert, application sifting, invitation to interview, interviewing candidates, successful candidate letter, CRB support
• complete Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau Disclosures
• provide a payroll service
• money management - holds an individuals Personal Budget and acts as their agent (managed accounts)
• provide advice and support to set up User Controlled Trusts

Prices:

Support Planning fees costs £27 per hour (this price is provided by Personalisation Plus, please check yourself for accuracy).

Company limited by guarantee no 07206340.

The Rowan Organisation is a charity that has over 30 years experience of working with people who are in receipt of Direct Payments and Self Directed Support including people with physical impairments and/or sensory impairments, learning disabilities, mental health issues, older
people and children. The charity is a User Led Organisation (ULO) with
over 75% of its Board of Management being service users. The Rowan
Organisation is on the Registered Provider List for Sheffield City Council.

The Rowan Organisation’s philosophy is to provide support to enable customers to manage their Personal Budgets and/or Direct Payments packages independently. However Rowan recognises that for various reasons this may be difficult for some people and therefore provides a Managed Account Service. The Rowan Organisation administers income
and expenditure whilst the customer remains in charge of the services
they receive and the way in which their services are delivered. Rowan holds separate bank accounts in the name of the Rowan Organisation for processing Personal Budgets/Direct Payments/Independent Living Funds.

Service Offered - Description of Services and costs:

Initial Consultation:
A free ½ hour consultation to establish what support is required. This can be by phone, at home or in conjunction with a practitioner if that is preferred. Free of charge

Support Planning and Brokerage Service:
The support planner will discuss the outcomes you wish to achieve. If barriers are identified the support planner will support you to look at how you can overcome them. They will provide a written support plan which will include:
• Full costing within indicative budget
• Identification of the range of services available to meet outcomes
• Access to a Resource Directory
• Implementation and arrangement of services as instructed
• Support to review that outcomes have been achieved
• Also provides Support Planning for Work Choice
Price: All necessary liaisons with the budget holder £33 inc VAT per hour
Support Planners have attended Sheffield City Council's Support Planning training and have had 5+ plans signed off by the council.

Fast-Track Start Up Package:
If a PA has already been identified, our local team can provide rapid support to ensure the responsibilities of being an employer are met, up to a maximum of 2 visits.
This will include:
• Support with drawing up job-descriptions and person specifications
• Advice on purchasing Employer’s Liability Insurance
• Support with Contracts of Employment
• Advice on setting up with a Payroll Service
• Advice on rates of pay and other associated costs
• Advice on a contingency plan to cover disruption of normal arrangements
• Access to sample documentation and guidelines.
Price: £170.64 inc VAT

Comprehensive Start Up Package:
When considering how to use your budget, which may include the recruitment of PA’s, our local team can provide support with the following:
• Opening a bank account
• Advice on rates of pay and other associated costs
• Identifying PA hours and rotas
• Access to the local PA register
• Job Descriptions and Person Specifications
• Support to advertise including the use of the Rowan’s Recruitment Line Rowan Website
• Advice on purchasing Employer’s Liability Insurance
• Advice on setting up with a Payroll Service
• Advice on a contingency plan to cover disruption of normal arrangements
• Employers toolkit to include information on roles and responsibilities of
an employer including health and safety, risk assessments, training
• Signposting to ‘good employer’ training
• Access to sample documentation and guidelines
Price: £666 inc VAT

Information and Advice Line
The Rowan Organisation advice line provides comprehensive, up to date, reliable information on all aspects of Personal Budgets, Direct Payments, Personal Health Budgets and any other funds available to you in a range of formats to meet your requirements.
This includes:
• Employment related issues
• Updates on changes to employment legislation including information on minimum wage
• Current and anticipated developments
• Access to sample documentation and guidelines
• Quarterly newsletters available in accessible formats
• Regularly updated website providing information in your area
• Facebook updates £39.60 inc VAT per year

Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) Vetting Service
The Rowan Organisation can carry out an enhanced CRB disclosure on PAs on behalf of the employer.
This Includes:
• Sending out CRB documentation for the potential PA to complete
• Sending out paperwork for the employer to verify the documentation sent in to support the CRB application
• Secure return through registered post of documentation sent in for verification process
• Countersigning the CRB application and forwarding to the CRB
• Suitable applicants will be admitted to our pool of vetted staff. Both the employer and potential PA will be notified
• The right of appeal is offered to any applicant who is not deemed to
be suitable
• Notifying you when a disclosure is due for renewal
Price: £63.20 per check inc VAT

Managed DP Account (third party account)
A Managed Account can be provided to administer the use of all funds available through Personal Budgets, Direct Payments, Personal Health Budget and any other funding sources available to you
Managed accounts will:
• Receive all invoices, receipts and payment requests
• Make all authorised payments from accounts
• Keep a full record of expenditure
• Provide statements of account
Price: One off set up cost of £19.74 inc VAT. £11.28 inc VAT per month or £22.56 if the package also includes ILF funding.

Payroll Services
The Rowan Organisation payroll service can provide weekly, fortnightly, four weekly or monthly support. To reduce the cost of the service we would recommend four weekly or calendar monthly pay periods.
Payroll Service will provide the following:
• HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) registration as an employer
• Deal with all correspondence from HMRC including end of year on-line submissions
• Calculate all payments to employees as required
• Provide payslips
• Calculate HMRC payments
• Retain annual leave records for employees
Fully comprehensive charge covers all aspects of the payroll with no additional fees.
Price: £6 inc VAT per Pay Slip
If produce 5 or more Pay Slips per run are supplied there is a discounted price of £5.64 inc VAT per Pay Slip.

Payroll Audit Reports
If your budget holder requires you to produce Audit Reports and you are using Rowan's Payroll Service, these reports can be produced for you.
Price: £2.40 per report inc VAT

Recruitment Line:
If you wish to recruit PA’s independently without support from The Rowan Organisations local team, you can use our Recruitment Line; this is an online-based service.
The Recruitment Line will:
• Send an advert information form for you to complete and return
• Send information sheets on how to write job adverts, job descriptions and person specifications
• Place the advert on the Rowan Organisations website
• Provide instructions on how to place an advert on Employer Direct (JobCentre Plus) website or place the advert for you
• Receive completed application forms collate and forward for short listing
Price: £35.22 inc VAT per recruitment drive, up to the closing date.
If unsuccessful a re-recruitment drive can be purchased at a reduced rate of £24 inc VAT. For additional support please see our support packages or hourly rate.

Low Level Support
Up to 5 hours working time per year either in home or the office per year inclusive of 1 visit if required.
This includes:
• Support to use the budget to it’s full potential
• Maximise the use of the budget to meet identified outcomes
• Discuss circumstances or changes which may impact on current arrangements
• Support to ensure systems for financial audits are in place
• Discuss and review contingency arrangements
• Advice on purchasing Employer’s Liability Insurance & renewals
• 1 years subscription to our Information & Advice Line with quarterly newsletters providing information and regular updates on employment or legislative changes
• Access to sample documentation and guidelines
Price: £201.68 inc VAT

Medium Level Support. Up to 16 hours working time per year either in home or the office per year inclusive of 4 visits if required.
This includes:
• Support to use the budget to it’s full potential
• Maximise the use of the budget to meet identified outcomes
• Discuss circumstances or changes which may impact on current arrangements
• Support to ensure systems for financial audits are in place
• Discuss and review contingency arrangements
• Advice on purchasing Employer’s Liability Insurance & renewals
• I years subscription to our Information & Advice Line with quarterly newsletters providing information and regular updates on employment or legislative changes
• Advice on purchasing
• Access to sample documentation and guidelines
• Re-recruitment if required
• Support with changes in working conditions, times or Job Descriptions including amendments to contracts
• Liaising with Insurers Legal departments to deal with any staff concerns or issues that may arise
Price: £612 inc VAT

High Level Support. Up to 36 hours working time per year either in home or the office per year inclusive of 12 visits if required.
This includes:
• Support to use the budget to it’s full potential
• Maximise the use of the budget to meet identified outcomes
• Discuss circumstances or changes which may impact on current arrangements
• Support to ensure systems for financial audits are in place
• Discuss and review contingency arrangements
• Advice on purchasing Employer’s Liability Insurance & renewals
• I years subscription to our Information & Advice Line with quarterly newsletters providing information and regular updates on employment or legislative changes
• Advice on purchasing
• Access to sample documentation and guidelines
• Re-recruitment if required
• Support with changes in working conditions, times or Job Descriptions including amendments to contracts
• Liaising with Insurers Legal departments to deal with any staff concerns or issues that may arise
• Fully comprehensive recruitment process if needed i.e. unexpected notice of PA’s
• Support with changes in working conditions, times or job descriptions
including amendments to contracts
• Liaising with Insurers Legal departments to deal with any staff concerns or issues that may arise
• Liaising with Local Authorities including supporting with reviews
• Any other support that may be required regarding managing your funding
Price: £1320 inc VAT

Hourly Rate. This may include any work undertaken either on a visit or in our offices. Examples of what this may include:
• Contracts of Employment
• Budgeting
• PA Issues
• Managing your budget
Price: £37.92 inc VAT per hour

Additional Monitoring and Payment Support
Level 1 - four 1 hour visits per year
• Support with completing returns in relation to your expenditure £151.68 inc VAT
Level 2 – Thirteen 1 hour visits per year
• Support with completion of 4 weekly wage payments
£492.96 inc VAT

All Prices are provided by the Rowan Organisation and may be subject to change without notice.
Charity No: 1017932

SACMHA is a health and social care company that provides a range of support services for older people, people with learning disabilities, people with physical impairments and/or sensory impairments and people with mental health issues including those who are in receipt of Direct Payments or an Individual Budget. All services can be tailored to meet the needs of the individual.

Support Planning - SACMHA can help individuals to write their Support Plan, detailing how you would like your life to look and what support you would like to purchase with your Personal Budget.

Profile:

SACMHA has a number of Support Planners:
• Gender - Female & Male.
• Aged - 25-55 years
• Hobbies include - music, cinema, theatre, socialising, spending time with friends & family, cooking, watching sport, singing, horse riding, fishing, walking, travelling, reading, gym, baking, going to church, jogging, martial arts.
• Specialism - mental health
• Specialism - BME communities, particularly the African-Caribbean community, older people and carers
• Based in the S3 area of Sheffield but works across the whole of the city
• Specialist knowledge - extensive knowledge and links with Black majority churches and the African-Caribbean community
• Additional languages - Caribbean English, Patois and Ndebele
Has a portfolio of their work for you to view
• Can provide written references
• Home visiting service - will travel to your home to Support Plan
• Can provide a group Support Planning service

Other services includes:

• Help to Recruit a Personal Assistant (PA), this includes: writing and placing an advert, application sifting, invitation to interview, interviewing candidates, successful candidate letter, CRB support.

• Help to Employ a Personal Assistant (PA), this includes: contract of employment, ongoing employment advice, ongoing employment support, disciplinary/grievance/dismissal advice and disciplinary/grievance/dismissal support.

• Help with Money Management - a service for people requiring help to manage their Personal Budget, this includes:
- a free initial meeting with a care co-ordinator and a staff member from SACMHA
- an agreement between all parties as to how the budget will be managed
- a system of holding the money, paying bills and providing a monthly statement
- 1 hour per month telephone support
- further support around helping to plan ahead with the budget
- SACMHA can be an Appointee for you, if you require this service

• Payroll Service (providing payslips and/or paying staff on an employers behalf) - SACMHA provides a payroll service to take the hassle out of the administration for individuals recruiting their own support staff. There is a fixed rate for administering the service which can be provided on a weekly, biweekly or monthly basis. Services such as BACS transfer, paper reports and payslips incur additional charges.

Prices:

• Support Planning costs £275-£360 depending on the complexity of the plan and the time needed to complete it
• Recruiting and Employing a PA costs £50 plus advertising
• Payroll Service: £30 to set up your account on the payroll system to pay your personal assistants. Each payslip costs £5 per staff member which is usually 4 weekly. Making payments directly into staff bank account costs £6 per payslip or an inclusive package for 2 staff costs £19.99 (4 weekly) or £30 for up to 4 staff (4 weekly)
• Individual Budget Management - money management costs £360 per year.
• Appointeeship - charges from £500 depending on individual assessment
These prices have been supplied by SACMHA, please check them yourself for accuracy.

Areas served: SACMHA covers postal districts S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S11, S12, S13, S14, S17, S20, S35 and S36.

Qualifications & Quality Standards:

All staff are Enhanced CRB checked and have attained or are working towards NVQ level 3. SACMHA is working towards PQASSO certification.
Support Planners have attended Sheffield City Council's Support Planning training and have had 5+ plans signed off by the council.
SACMHA has Public Liability, Employers' Liability and Professional Indemnity insurance and has been in business since 1988.

A registered charity and a company limited by guarantee no 3215318.
Charity No: 1058006

Smart Support Services has a vast wealth of experienced in providing support for older people, people with mental health issues, people with learning disabilities, people with physical impairments and/or sensory impairments, complex needs, people with substance misuse and dual diagnosis problems and people with an offending history.

Smart Support Services Ltd has received Recognised Provider List (RPL) status for their Support Planning (and Support Plan Management) service. RPL status has not yet been awarded for their Managed Accounts service.

Profile:

Smart Support has 2 Support Planners available.

Ashley:
Gender - Male
Aged - 25 - 55 years
Hobbies and interests include - Health & Social Care, Equality of Opportunity, the countryside, music, teaching, Information Technology, exercise and watching sport.
Based in the south of Sheffield S8 but works across the whole of the city.

Kimberley:
Gender - Female
Aged - 25 - 55 years
Hobbies and interests include: music, dancing, watching different sports and a passion for travelling which has included working for 12 months in Asia. This opportunity has allowed Kimberley to both meet and work with people from a variety of cultures and backgrounds.

Smart Support Services has a portfolio of work for you to view and can provide written references.

Services Provided:

Smart Support Services (Sheffield) Ltd offers the following services:
• A responsive, Support Planning and brokerage service that is courteous and respectful
• Managed accounts to pay one or multiple providers
• Payroll service.
• Supported Housing Pilot managed accounts service
• Home-based planning service with the use of their own mobile internet
• Office-based planning service to get a discount
• Free unsupported use of our office computer, internet and phone to have a go at writing your own plan (call to book this)
• Group support planning if required
A Recognised Provider of Support Planning, brokerage, managed accounts and payroll

Prices:

• Support Planning: £20.50 per full hour and 35p per minute.
Full details are available at www.smartsupportservicessheffield.co.uk and www.smartsupportservices.co.uk

Weekly Managed Accounts:
• Supported Housing Pilot: £5.25 per BACs transaction; £9 per card, cheque or PayPal transaction; annual management fee of £50. Assumes postal or office set-up
• Single provider accounts (up to 24 payments): £141 per 12 months.
•Standard accounts (up to 60 payments): £239.86 for 12 months.
Both accounts allow up to 6 card or cheque payments within their limited transactions and have a refund option if not used for the full term (subject to a minimum fee to cover set-up)
• BACS transactions over the limit - £4
• Card or cheque transactions over the limit - £7
Account prices are set up via postal or office application. An advisor can come to see you at your request for £40.

Monthly Payroll and Managed Account Service:
• Manages your direct payments and offer a full payroll service operated on your behalf (employer/employee set-up, all HMRC correspondence dealt with, time sheets supplied, payslips provided, HMRC paid, your staff paid, all paperwork kept on file for you)
• 1 staff £349.82 for full 12 months
• 2 staff £409.79 for full 12 months
• 3 staff £470.27 for full 12 months
• 4 staff £570.24 for full 12 months

In addition to the payroll payments, each account regardless of staff on payroll, has up to 60 remaining transactions which include up to 6 cheques or card payments.
• BACS transactions over the limit - £4
• Card or cheque transactions over the limit - £7
• Unused weeks are not charged but a minimum fee equivalent to 13 weeks must run up to the first audit submission

Accounts are set up via postal application. An advisor can come to see you at your request for £40. They will fully explain the process in person and will help you to write your PA contracts if required.

For full and clear translatable and auditable details of the services, a comparison table to show the benefits of a face to face meeting and for the SPSOR data, please go to the website and follow the link to managed accounts and managed accounts and payroll.

These prices are provided by Smart Support Services (Sheffield) Ltd. Please check them yourself for accuracy.

Qualifications and Quality Standards:

Ashley Staniforth (Director) is a qualified teacher with an HNC in Social care and 19 years’ experience in the Health and Social Care Sector. He has been Support Planning since 1998.

Kimberley Spencer has worked with the company as a Support Planner since October 2012, before which she worked for Sheffield Adult Care and Assessment as a Care Manager.

All staff are enhanced CRB checked and Smart Support Services holds full Public Liability, Employers Liability and Professional Indemnity insurance.

Company limited by guarantee 07759811.