Adur & Worthing Councils Reviews: Working at Adur & Worthing Councils

the actual work itself is great and the majority of the people there are amazing however, some of the management were over bearing and didn't really do much other than get stressed at the staff for no good reason. there was also a lot of talking behind peoples backs and general rudeness.

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Government funding means too many temp roles

HR Officer (Former Employee) - Worthing - 7 October 2022

The people are lively and the work is rewarding but the funds are just not there for this council to work effectively. All you hear is budget cuts and redundancy and that just makes for a very scared and unhappy workforce - especially in the current climate !

Pros

Pension, salary, people all hood

Cons

Politics, low funding and lack of care for staff

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Insights into Adur & Worthing Councils

Based on 3 survey responses

What people like

Time and location flexibility
Fair pay for job
Ability to meet personal goals

Areas for improvement

Inclusive work environment
General feeling of work happiness
Sense of belonging

Not a great company for new starters

Housing Systems & Data Officer (Former Employee) - Worthing (worked remotely) - 27 September 2022

I was recruited for a role at this company with little to no guidance on completing a lot of my tasks. I was recruited at a time where I was mid way through one of my main work schedules, where the previous person doing my job moved to a different role with no access to guide me in producing my work. There were no user guides and set up processes to help new starters or anyone new to a particular work task.There was always a confusion within the balance of asking for help and working on things by yourself. If I asked for help in one of my tasks , I was always told to ask someone else or figure things out myself, and when I worked on things myself and was slightly behind schedule due to lack of resources and teaching, I was questioned as to why I never asked for help (even though I did).Management were constantly aware of the lack of structure in multiple departments but never attempted to make any changes or provide any guidance to help to help improve this. For example, I was told to start managing requests to set up users on the HMS Live system, without this being in my official job description, but I took this on. When asking my manager for guidance, he only told me to find a guide on the Google Drive. When I found the guide and noticed something didn’t match up with the user request I sent, I brought this up with the manager, and he told me the guide on the Google Drive was wrong and he should have just asked me for guidance instead, which I did already, which wasted a lot of time. This was one of one many examples I have with miscommunications and contradictions -

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Great management and team

Customer Service Representative (Former Employee) - Worthing - 31 January 2022

Very supportive managers and team members. Lots of training and you learn something new everyday which is great. And your hard work is definitely recognised by the higher ups.

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Great place to work

Organisational Design & Development (Current Employee) - Worthing - 3 June 2021

If there was one word I'd use for the Councils, it would be friendly. Mostly everyone goes out of their way to help other people and those who work here are really invested in serving the people in the area of Adur and Worthing. I've had chances to progress and develop in the council and, if you're someone who gets out, meets people and looks for opportunities, chances are you could too.There is a lot of work and sometimes it feels like we're a little overstretched, but this is because of our ambition as an organisation and the impact we want to have on our area. There's not really a typical day at work for me - although there will be for many of the roles. I have projects I work on and self-direct myself to get them done, working with colleagues. The management give permission to get things done and provide support where needed.

Pros

The council is currently looking to reduce staffing levels The IT dept is under a lot of pressure and is looking to put its infrastructure and services in the cloud

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Under valued work force

Customer Service Officer (Current Employee) - Worthing, West Sussex - 4 August 2017

the worker are under valued and over cast by the many levels of un needed management, the council struct needs to be over hauled and progressed into the matching the rest of the world as far as the workers appreciation culture.

Pros

flexi working

Cons

over managed

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Great insight into Planning

Planning Assistant (Former Employee) - Worthing - 12 July 2017

The work introduced me to the challenges of planning policy, such as the need for consultations, and of the potential for SPDs. My GIS work was MapInfo based and formed an evidence based for an upcoming GI strategy

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People are great, major restructuring

HR Business Partner (Former Employee) - Worthing, West Sussex - 6 March 2017

Re structuring through out the organisation and loosing very skilled members of staff and those left behind are expected to cover not only their job but their ex-colleagues creating a stressful working environment for all concerned.

Pros

Flexitime, car park, salary

Cons

Red tape, politically driven, hot desking

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Very good employer

Administrative Assistant (Former Employee) - Worthing - 16 February 2017

Very good employer and I enjoyed working there. Flexible working hours and Management who recognised hard working employee's. One thing I would only mentioned that I did not liked...racist comment by an employee who worked there for so long that no one would challenge his behaviour which resulted in an unfair outcome.