Aberlour Childcare Trust Reviews: Working at Aberlour Childcare Trust

Generally a good workplace, high paced and high volume of work. Good if you like to keep busy and enjoy being hands on. Found it very difficult to get staff disability accommodations met if at all though. Work life balance could be better as regularly contacted outside of work, and can be 7/8 days in a row for your rota hours. Rate of pay is good for care jobs and holiday entitlement is fair. training provided was excellent and there is counselling services as part of your service. The service I was in discourage staff talking about shifts/policies/conflicts which can lead to poor team moral but other services are more open to these discussions.

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Rewarding and excellent support

Service Manager (Current Employee) - Stirling, Stirlingshire - 3 March 2022

Fantastic place to work, staff make a real difference to children and families they support. Very supportive to staff especially throughout the covid pandemic.

Pros

Excellent benefits and supportive management

Cons

Shift working

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General feeling of work happiness

Caring organisation

Young People's Worker (Current Employee) - Fife - 18 October 2021

A real values driven organisation with great people. I felt supported and trusted to make choices about my work. During the pandemic the organisation showed how much it cared, no-one was furloughed and no-one was penalised for having to take time off for self isolating or child care issues. Managers are compassionate and empowering, I would recommend working for this organisation.

Pros

Strong values, good terms and conditions, compassionate management

Cons

Working hours have to be right for those being supported so can reduce flexibility

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Terrible management

Prison family liaison officer (Former Employee) - Dumfries - 24 October 2020

If you are working for this company any where apart from Dumfrise and Galloway congratulations you have a good job for a nice company. If it’s in DnG however unlucky. The manager is awful. The rest of the team are amazing and job would be great otherwise but the manger ruins it. Talks to you like a child and treats you with contempt. The centre while I was there was open evening and weekends the rota for this was badly managed so the work life balance was poor. Contracts are rarely over a year long so little job security. The pay isn’t great with no chance of paid overtime with TOIL being used instead. Overall avoid this company in DnG else where go ahead and enjoy.

Pros

Supporting great people/families

Cons

Awful manager

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Not bad

Child Carer (Former Employee) - Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh - 7 January 2020

Worked here for a while, had great relationships with all of my coworkers but towards the end I felt very robotic, Not a very good life\work balance, the jobs I had was a stressful one but managers always had time to speak and help with tough decisions.

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Good to begin with but begin to expect to much

YPW (Current Employee) - Aberdeen, Aberdeen City - 10 December 2019

Good place to work but you are expected to cover for others to often. You get a lot of responsibilities if you are able but over time they will begin to rely to much on you.

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Lovely Place to work

Administration Assistant (Former Employee) - Glasgow - 17 November 2019

Excellent company and fun place to work staff all friendly and welcoming would recommend anyone to work here and always enjoy a good night out fun times

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Great experience

Family Worker (Former Employee) - Glasgow - 25 October 2019

Worked with Aberlour as a family worker. An amazing experience the family is at the centre of care. Very fulfilling job and being part of building resilience with the children is so rewarding. Good training and support.

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Ok Company, cliche environment

Residential Support Worker (Former Employee) - Kirkcaldy - 2 September 2019

Good company to work for if I’m the right home. Management can be very one sided. Children are lovely but also challenging. Worked for this company for 2 years and loved it until moved to a certain home. Some staff think it’s their way or the high way.

Pros

Helping make a difference to the young people

Cons

Some staff. Long hours

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Engaging and fun workplace.

Peer Mentor Volunteer (Former Employee) - Elgin - 16 August 2019

I thoroughly enjoyed my time as a volunteer working for Aberlour Childcare Trust. As a peer mentor, I gained transferable skills that enabled me to become a successful and compassionate individual.

Pros

Helping children become active members of their community.

Cons

When I joined, the peer mentoring was a new programme so could have been improved.

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Fun workplace

Playscheme Worker (Current Employee) - Ayr, SCT - 25 July 2015

Great place to work, best bit about it going out with children and having fun and encouraging them to do things they may never of had the chance of doing, can sometimes be hard going. All of the staff are easy to get on with and will try their best to help with anything your not sure on!

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Great to work in and productive.

Project Worker (Former Employee) - Glasgow - 22 July 2015

A typical day at work would be working shifts. During this shift you would be dealing with residents who may have chaotic behaviour due to illicit drug use. During my experience working there I learned to be non judgemental and helping mothers to overcome addiction. The staff were a great support as were the management. The hardest part of the job was seeing babies withdraw from illicit substances. The most enjoyable part of the job is seeing families reunited and known you have made a difference for there future.

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Educational/Behavioural Support Worker (Current Employee) - Dunfermline - 29 December 2014

Very rewarding work with children and young people who have experienced trauma and neglect. A tough job where you can be regularly exposed to extremely challenging behaviour. Ok access to internal training and good access to regular mandatory training. Salary is not bad in comparison to other social care charities and local authorities. Quite poor in terms of job security, progression and support through supervision/performance development. Good camaraderie between staff at ground level. Can work long shifts and feel pressured to work outwith your contracted hours. Lack of clarity and communication between some levels of management.

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