Senior Care Assistant

The Riverside Group; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 28,000

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Riverside Huddersfield, England, United Kingdom

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Job Description

Job Title: Care Officer

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £25,965.41 per annum (£27,112.48 per annum is achieved after 18 months successful performance in the role)

Working Hours: 37.5 Per Week

Working Pattern: working shifts Monday to Sunday between 7am - 10pm including weekends and bank holidays

Location: Laurel Court - Huddersfield, Kirklees

If you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact at Riverside, please ensure you attach a current CV and covering letter. At Riverside we recruit to potential not just on skills and experience, so we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the essential criteria on the job description.

The difference you will make as a Care Officer

Working collaboratively to engage and empower the care team to deliver an outstanding service with compassion, respect and dignity, always putting the customer first. You will work with customers to maintain independence, supporting customers with a person-centred approach.

About You

We are looking for someone with:

• Experience working with adults with learning disabilities and autism.
• Strong communication skills, able to listen and communicate clearly, encourage feedback and reflection, able to empower and motivate a team to deliver improvements.
• Competent computer skills.
• Experience of organising and planning tasks.
• Able to use initiative with the confidence to make and act on decisions.
• Good awareness of CQC standards.
• Health and social care qualification or accredited equivalent and/or evidence of continuing professional development.

Why Riverside?

At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference – enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.

Working With Us, You’ll Enjoy

• Competitive pay & generous pension.
• 28 days holidays plus bank holidays.
• Flexible working options available.
• Investment in your learning, personal development and technology.
• A wide range of benefits.

Diversity And Inclusion At Riverside

We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues.

Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

Role Profile

Engage a Team

• Work with the team to create a safe environment where colleagues can talk openly and honestly.
• Carry out regular ‘spot checks’ by observing activity of Care Assistants in customer homes, support individuals to achieve the best approach to person-centred care for our customers.
• Support and provide guidance to team members which could include, mentoring or upskilling colleagues.
• Support in facilitating handover meetings to update the team before every shift.
• Recognise and acknowledge the achievements of your colleagues and share this information with your managers who can reflect with colleagues in their 121’s.
• Build effective partnerships with other colleagues across Riverside and participate in wider initiatives.

Service Support

• Support your managers to ensure the service is delivered in line with CQC and contractual requirements.
• To be a point of contact for customers and staff, where relevant.
• Promote and implement Care policies and procedures to ensure your team are effective and always delivering a safe service.
• Support your manager to meet Riverside performance targets around KPIs.
• Assist the Service Manager with rostering, to ensure all shifts are covered effectively.
• Support the management of a robust medication procedure in line with national Safe Handling of Medication guidelines. This will include overseeing the safe and effective administration, storage and prompting of prescribed medication to customers.
• Support the service to ensure compliance with Health & Safety legislation and other regulatory obligations, assessing and reporting all risks to your line manager to ensure the correct control measures are put in place.
• Work alongside the team to make referrals to Social Services and Occupational Therapists ensuring safe standards of care to our customers.

Support Customers

• Assess customers’ and potential customers’ care and support needs in consultation with relevant agencies.
• Work to meet the monthly KPIs and review care plans every 6 months in line with company policy.
• Monitor and evaluate customers’ welfare needs, maintain regular contact with customers as and when required and respond to emergency situations.
• Involve and engage customers and take their views into account in the design and delivery of all aspects of the service.

Other Information

• You will be required to work flexibly to meet customer and business needs, which may include out-of-hours working and alternate weekends.
• Undertake regular training and take responsibility for your own continuous development to enable you to deliver your role safely.
• Ensure customers are safe at all times - carrying out all of your duties within Riverside’s Policy & Procedure framework e.g. health & safety, safeguarding, dignity at work, GDPR, cash handling, etc.
• Deliver your role in line with the Riverside company values – “Our Riverside Way”.
• Participate in team meetings and attend regular supervisions and reflective practice sessions.
• From time to time you may be required to undertake additional duties and responsibilities in consultation with your line manager.

Person specification

Essential

• A resilient team player with a caring, empathic, supportive, and flexible, can-do attitude.
• Able to listen and communicate clearly, encourage feedback and reflection, empower, motivate, and deliver improvements.
• Competent IT skills.
• Experience of working in a team and communicating positively with other people.
• Experience of being able to organize tasks and plan accordingly whilst dealing with people.
• Able to use initiative and have confidence to make and act on decisions.
• Awareness of CQC standards.

Desirable

• Health & Social Care qualification or accredited equivalent and/or evidence of continuing professional development.

About Us

Riverside is one of the UK’s leading not-for-profit social housing and regeneration organisations, owning or managing around 75,000 homes from Irvine to Kent. We are a leading provider of supported housing services, particularly for those affected by homelessness, and our track record of transforming lives and revitalising neighbourhoods dates back over 90 years. We have plans to build over 15,000 affordable homes over the next decade.

Our ways of working

Commitment to Diversity