Job Title: Care Assistant

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £25,673.65 per annum (pro rata)

Working Hours: 22.5 hours per week

Working Pattern: Working shifts between Monday and Sunday 0700 and 2200 including weekends and bank holidays

Location: Harbour Place, Workington

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 Care assistant:

In this role you will be working as part of a committed and compassionate team, delivering an outstanding experience to customers whilst being supported by your colleagues and Line Manager. Ideally in this role will recognise and identify each individual customer’s needs to ensure a person-centered approach and that the customer is at the heart of everything we do by:

• Delivering and enabling customers to meet the aspirations within their individual support plans, whilst keeping up-to-date information on customers’ changing needs
• Providing direct personal care to customers in line with Care Quality Commission (CQC) definitions including showering, shaving, toileting, continence management and personal hygiene (training provided)
• Helping customers to go to bed, wake up, dress and maintain their personal appearance.
• Safely helping with customer’s mobility difficulties and using assessed equipment, aids or other manual handling equipment
• Administering and supporting medication for customers
• Assisting with preparation of meals, snacks and drinks where necessary

About you:

We are looking for someone with:

• Experience of working in a team and communicating positively with other people

• Experience of being able to organise tasks and plan accordingly whilst dealing with people

• Be caring, empathetic, flexible and have a resilient, can-do attitude

• Able to use initiative and have confidence to make and act on decisions

• Basic administrative skills & IT Skills (including proficiency in Microsoft Office)

• Desirable

• Awareness of CQC standards

• Experience of providing direct care to a diverse group of customers

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.

We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.

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 be considered.