Care Assistant
Reference Number:Closing Date: 2021-03-03
Organisation: Riverside
Location: Huddersfield - HD4 6AW
Salary: £9,262.50
Riverside have a new opportunity for a Care Assistant, working part time, on a permanent basis. Who you’ll be helping Laurel Court provides a safe environment for people with learning disabilities to live independently in Huddersfield. Our goal is to enable our customers to reach their potential, build on life skills and increase quality of life through person-centred planning. If you wish to read more about the scheme, please click here. What will you do? As the Care Assistant, you will assist in the delivery of quality care services to a high standard in line with Riverside’s policies, procedures and values. Day to day Your usual responsibilities as a Laurel Court Care Assistant will include: • Provide assistance to residents in need of physical personal care ensuring dignity and privacy is upheld. • Recognise distress and identify and assess positive ways to reduce it. • Identify and assess positive ways to reduce stress. • Actively participate in specified care management programmes. • Provide assistance with laundry as well as assist customers with catering skills. For a deeper understanding of your responsibilities, take a look at the job description linked below. Does this describe you? You demonstrate an optimistic, flexible and non-judgemental approach and have excellent verbal and written communication skills with individuals from a variety of different backgrounds. You have experience working in a customer focused environment within a residential setting offering personal care to a diverse group of people. You have basic administrative skills with the ability to use Microsoft Office including Word, Outlook and Excel. Awareness of housing, health and safety legislation and regulations will also be important. Click on the job description linked below to see a full list of our essential requirements. What’s in it for you? In return for your hard work and dedication, we offer you: • Access to ongoing personal career development opportunities through Learning Zone • Pension Scheme • Eye tests, glasses and lenses • Riverside Rewards scheme and app, providing valuable access to discounted benefits including high street and online savings • 25 days holiday per year Who are Riverside? We are one of the UK’s leading social housing and regeneration organisations. We are a group of not-for-profit and commercial companies with a charitable housing association at our core. Operating across 150+ local authorities in England and Scotland and housing 90,000+ people, we are fully committed to improving the lives of thousands of individuals and families. We seek to transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods. Is Riverside for you? We want you to feel empowered and that your voice is truly heard. Being a company focused on people, we treat our customers with this same respect. We trust you to protect our customers, our people and our business and we see outstanding worth in those with the courage to take responsibility, innovate and find solutions. Your focus on performance and ambition is rewarded with development opportunities. With Riverside, you can achieve. If you’re thinking of joining us as a Care Assistant, we’d love to hear from you. We encourage applicants from all sections of the community so that we can truly reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. Please Note: Riverside are putting in measures to protect candidates and our colleagues from Covid-19. Whilst we are still continuing to recruit for this position and other roles in the organisation we will be implementing virtual interviews. https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/riverside/displayjob.aspx?jobid=13723
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