The Fair, Innovative & Transformative Work (FITwork) Tool

The Innovating Works… Fair, Innovative & Transformative Work (FITwork) Tool is designed to encourage you to think about the way in which arrangements in your work as a Personal Assistant (PA) can support or limit innovation, and help you provide the best possible care for your employer (the person you support).

The FITwork Tool considers practices (both formal and informal), behaviours and attitudes, and focuses on issues that national and international research has identified as crucial to getting the most out the resources currently available to you.

The FITwork Tool is used anonymously and doesn’t make any judgments about your work – it simply highlights areas that could impact on your innovative potential, and encourages you to think about new ways of approaching these.

What does the FITWork Tool do?

The FITwork Tool provides an overview of your work's current position along ten key dimensions relating to fair work, performance and innovation. These dimensions focus on:

How decisions are made and new ideas are approached;
The design and structure of your work as a PA;
The way PAs are managed;
The design of support for PAs;
How external relations are managed (for example, with Allied Health Professionals, the NHS, or Local Authorities);
The way you do innovative things at work;
The way PAs participate in and drive innovation; and
The way the PA's employers support fair work and how this is experienced by PAs.

For more information about the FITwork Tool and the dimensions, please visit the Innovating Works... website.

It will take approximately 20 minutes to complete this survey.

You can use your phone, tablet or computer to fill in the survey, and your progress is saved automatically. If you want a break whilst completing it, you can revisit the survey and pick up where you left off, provided you use the same device and browser, and return within two weeks of starting.

We recommend you complete the survey by answering questions based on your first reaction. Your responses are completely anonymous.

By proceeding, your responses will be stored securely and confidentially by the Scottish Centre for Employment Research at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Any use of the data will be governed by the ethical guidelines of the University of Strathclyde.