“The role of a PA is very rewarding. It’s about helping someone to achieve their own goals and do what they want to do.” Could you be like Helen and support someone to live their best life? Find PA roles near you: https://t.co/bo1oF9AuWn

“Being a Personal Assistant is about using your time, energy, skills and experience to help someone to have a good life. It’s incredibly rewarding.” Could you be like Michael and support someone to live their best life? Find PA roles near you: https://t.co/bo1oF9AuWn

Looking for a more rewarding career? Become a Personal Assistant and support someone to live their best life. https://t.co/bo1oF9zX6P

Louise is a student who also works part time as a Personal Assistant supporting Ben. She shared what prompted her to get into the job and what she enjoys most about it: https://t.co/1Iyj4UQ5hx #ScotCareersWeek24

Are you looking for work that’s... 📍Local ⏰Flexible ❤️Rewarding? Why not work as a Personal Assistant, and support someone in your community to live their best life? Take a look at the roles available near you: https://t.co/bo1oF9AuWn

And that's a wrap! Thank you to all our members and everyone who attended our AGM today. Want another chance to chat all things SDS-related? Early bird tickets are now available for the SDS National Voice conference, 19 March 2025, Edinburgh:

We’re about to head into this afternoon’s workshops on SDS and unpaid carers, pre-assessment support, self-evaluation for ISOs, European PAE co-ops, and PA training framework @VOCAL @ENIL

Thank you to our AGM speakers this morning, and our members and attendees for your thoughtful questions. Time for a quick lunch break before regrouping for our workshops this afternoon! 🥪

🔎 By-My-Side research findings are being shared by SDSS’ Mark Han-Johnston:

@scotgov @socworkscot‘s Donna Murray is now sharing info about the soon-to-be-published SDS Standard 13📄

Christina Mclaren from @scotgov is now sharing with us the latest developments in policy affecting PAs and their employers👩‍🦼

We’re now hearing about SDSS’ achievements from the past year, from our chair Donald Macleod

We have now held our board vote, the following board members are now re-elected for 2024-25: @tressaburke, @LauraHendry_SDS, Michael Greaves Mackintosh, @AmmMonaghan, Lyn Pornaro, and Pandora Summerfield

We're now hearing from SDSS' Jeremy about this year's finances, which you can read more about here:

And we’re off! Great to see so many members join us for our AGM this morning! 🙌

We’re excited to welcome everyone to our AGM later today. We look forward to having so many of our members together in the same (virtual) room!

"Being a Personal Assistant means I can be with the person I’m supporting for the long-term and build that relationship with both him and his family." Find out more what Romali values about working as a Personal Assistant: https://t.co/1k0aIV0L4x #ScotCareersWeek24

Could you support someone in your community who needs a bit of extra help? Working as a Personal Assistant is flexible, rewarding, and you don’t need formal qualifications. Find PA roles with a range of hours in your local on My Job Scotland: https://t.co/bo1oF9AuWn

There are only 3 spots left on next week's Supporting Autistic People to Access SDS training, book now to avoid disappointment:

DPOs are running a campaign fortnight- find out more about it below: