Welcome to Riversdale Care Home

About Riversdale

Riversdale offers residential care for to up to 40 people living with a range of health and care needs.

Situated on a residential street in West Kirby, Merseyside, the home is adjacent to South Parade and West Kirby Beach, and close to local amenities and transport links.

The home is spread over three floors, with a lift for ease of access. There are communal areas for socialising and the home has its own garden. Activities are available and food is nutritionally balanced.

Riversdale Care Home is part of a group that runs successful Nursing and Residential Care Homes. The Home is registered and inspected by Care Quality Commission (CQC) to provide outstanding care as follows:

• Caring for adults over 65 years
• Caring for adults under 65 years
• People living with Dementia
• People who require Personal care

The maximum number of Residents allowed at any one time is 40.

Riversdale Care Home aims to continually provide its residents with a secure, relaxed, and homely environment in which their care, well-being and comfort are of prime importance.

Carers will always strive to preserve and maintain the dignity, individuality and privacy of all residents and in so doing will be sensitive to the residents’ ever-changing needs. Such needs may be medical/therapeutic (for physical and mental welfare), cultural, psychological, spiritual, emotional and social, and residents are encouraged to participate in the development of their individualised Care Plans in which the involvement of family and friends may be appropriate and is greatly valued.

All Care staff within the home will be appropriately qualified to deliver the highest standards of care. A continuous staff training programme is implemented to ensure that these high standards are maintained in line with the latest initiatives and developments in Care Practices as may be laid down in appropriate legislation, regulations and Care Standards.

Riversdale is situated a short stroll away from the beautiful marine lake area of West Kirby. Hilbre Island can be seen from the front of the home and the home is close to a quaint shopping area and local amenities.

Set over three floors, Riversdale provides accommodation of 28 single rooms and 4 double rooms of which 17 have en-suites.

Our main lounge is equipped with a flat-screen colour television and our garden provides a relaxing and quiet environment for residents to rest or meet relatives. The dining rooms are well laid out with wooden dining tables and part upholstered chairs. Our ground floor area has been adapted to suit the needs of all residents living with Dementia.  All areas are fitted with domestic furniture and lighting. Specialist equipment, which includes a hoist, grab rails and aids, have all been provided to maximise the independence of our Residents. Doorways that require wheelchair access all have the required opening width. Every room has central heating, a nurse call system, modern fire detection and television points

Our chef teams use great ingredients to provide freshly prepared, nutritionally balanced meals based on regularly changing, seasonal menus. We make mealtimes an occasion for our residents, enabling them to enjoy their food in welcoming surroundings and catered for by our care teams. Residents always have multiple options to choose from at all meal times and can opt for something different if they change their minds when the food arrives.

We make sure our residents start the day right with a filling breakfast including cereals, fruit, toast and porridge, plus a daily changing choice of hot options. Our Residents are welcome to have breakfast any time they desire, and we are happy to accommodate their morning schedule. Between Breakfast and Lunch, we offer mid-morning cake and coffee.

Here lunch is the main meal of the day – enabling residents to dine together in a restaurant-style environment and providing a choice of hot meals and the option of soup or a sandwich for those that don’t want something quite as filling. Lunch is finished with delicious desserts, all prepared on-site by our chef teams.

And then, between lunch and supper, it’s mid-afternoon tea time with mouth-watering freshly baked cakes that our residents and team members enjoy together, making afternoon tea an activity in itself. After supper, during the night, lighter meal options are provided in the evening, and fresh fruit and snacks are available throughout the day to keep resident’s nourished, energised and satisfied.

Management Team

Clare Holland is the Home Manager of Riversdale Care Home. Clare has been working in the care sector for over 20 years and has a passion for care. Progressing through differing positions Clare is an experienced manager who oversees the day to day running of the Home.  Senior Carers and Carers tend to the care of residents.

Care Team

Riversdale Care Home has 27 members of staff: 20 of whom are directly involved with  providing care for the Residents and between them have many years of care experience within Riversdale. Of the 20 Care staff, 85% hold an NVQ level 2 or above in Health and Social Care.

Support Team

The Admin and Head Office team are responsible for dealing with fees and clients personal allowance, suppliers’ invoices and payroll.

Domestic and Maintenance staff ensure the home is a safe and clean environment at all times, following the regulations set by COSHH, HSE and IPC.

Our cooks work on alternate days preparing and providing meals to our residents 3 times a day to meet each individual’s dietary needs.

Riversdale invests in a wide range of training for all our staff members, not only do we complete the mandatory training, but we also complete additional training courses such as Catheter Care, Challenging Behaviour, Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool, Dysphagia, Common Health Problems, End of Life Care and much more. All our staff re-train every year in dementia support/care to keep our knowledge up to date to ensure we provide the best care.

Therapeutic activities are available for all our residents including those living with dementia; these include the normal recreational events. Activities are planned and actioned through our Activities Co-ordinator; a 4 weekly plan is available.

Here at Riversdale, we have a dedicated activities coordinator responsible for creating a monthly activities calendar. We Care Group provides the activities coordinators with all the tools necessary to enhance the well-being of our Residents. Each Home is a NAPA (National Activities Provider Association) member, which means each month, we receive a variety of activities and ideas; our activities coordinators can also get trained and develop their skills as well-being coordinators.

As we have residents with dementia, it is crucial to have daily activities that help keep their minds sharp. We focus on the sensory stimulation for our residents, which means we have activities that stimulate their senses (taste, smell, vision, hearing and touch)

Besides the wide range of sensory stimulation and activities, each Home has a 40 inch interactive table. In the past year, WCG invested in getting a Sharp Interactive table to each Home to aid the activities coordinators to provide a more person-centred and one-on-one session to low mobility Residents or Residents who prefer not to socialise.

In Riversdale, we believe in helping enrich the lives of people with dementia to ensure they are happy and fulfilled.