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The current admin manager has no respect for her staff and is not someone you can go to for support, the department has completely gone downhill and so many people are leaving due to poor management, I would not recommend working here

Cons

Poor manager
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Amazing workplace

Amazing to work for They treat you like family and the pay is good I am supported by management and they are always there to help me if I am stuck I really like the place
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  • Feeling of personal appreciation
  • Ability to learn new things
  • Clear sense of purpose
Areas for improvement
  • Fair pay for job
  • Energising work tasks
  • Sense of belonging

Stressful

Lack of staff, lack of work life balance, not family friendly, toxic culture, poorly paid, high responsibility, no time to do the job you want to. Avoid

Pros

Job

Cons

Stressful
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Not nice

What is the best part of working at the company?None it is full of bullies and incompetent band 8s What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Band 8 bullies and lack of safe staffing What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Bullying culture with toxic environments What is a typical day like for you at the company?Stressful, short staffed with people who don’t have knowledge around patient group
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Some good staff but bad management

Working in NHS is draining and stressful. You are overworked and underpaid. Always cutting corners and thereby putting patients at risk for lack of staff. Due to over work staff are always calling in sick and the work place is toxic. It’s such a shame.

Pros

Good training and certain outside benefits

Cons

Toxic environment, low morale
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Good benefits, poor support

CPFT are a really poor company in terms of management, support and culture. Raising concerns is dealt with very badly, and there is no consistency or fairness when dealing with any problems staff are having.

Pros

Benefits such as maternity leave

Cons

Poor management, no support, no recognition of the work of staff ‘on the ground’
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Avoid

Poor Management. Favouritism. Managers don’t take your health or wellbeing seriously. Very clicky place to work, you only get far if you’re friends with management and your face fits.

Pros

Free refreshments

Cons

Work life balance. Lack of support.
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Paediatric Speech and language admin

A very busy role and expect too much. Often left on your own to run the office when senior admin manager works from home (because they can!) No consideration or fairness and then wonder why staff get fed up and leave. Senior management been there too long and set in their ways. No consideration for lone working as only interested in themselves. Too much expected from you at this level. Strange set up really, senior admin staff setting themselves up and each other for a comfortable little job until they retire, regardless of any consideration for others. Sadly the NHS still employ friends and people they like rather than a fair process. Basically in the bag, if you are in with the right people. Quite toxic to be honest and not good for moral. Have tried other roles in the NHS and they all seem fairly similar so decided to get out all together. Much happier now I have left. Still in contact with friends who still work in NHS and they are all unhappy. I feel management needs sorting, start from the top! Clicky unhealthy place to work. Also most managers don’t work a Friday! This always baffled me, obviously nothing happens in the NHS on a Friday!

Pros

Feel you are helping people

Cons

Left to lone work far too often.
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Bad

The department rota allocation depends on how friendly you are with the supervisor.Certain staff get away with doing nothing and other staff are expected to work twice as hard to make up for this .Ceo has little care for welfare or treatment of staff on the lowest band of pay .She only cares about the consultants and higher level management. We are all just pawns to her .

Pros

Jump hospital referral appointments when patients cancel or don't turn up.

Cons

Low wages . Bad pension scheme that never pays out what you put in . Department bullying
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Awful, terrible trust, bullying culture going on and brushed under the carpet when speak up.

What is the best part of working at the company?Parking and location, other than that..nothing. What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Lack of support, terrible management, unrealistic expectations, bullying cultureWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?Awful, bullying culture happening, if you try and speak out, senior management will threaten you with ruining your career. They turn any issues you have around on you and blame your mental health! Pretty ironic reallyWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?Miserable, lonely, unproductive,
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Not so bad but management can be improved

Fun colleagues but a lot of managers are all talk doesn’t even know what actual bedside care entails. Loads of lazy and aggressive staff too. In the end you will be working your butt while others simply sitting in the break sipping tea while on the phone talking to who knows who.
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Terrible place of work

Managers who have no idea run by chromosome and netptisum if you think you get overtime think again. Terrible pay and have just took the only perk of an early finish off of us. CANT EMPLOY ..

Pros

None

Cons

Bad management NO IDEA
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NHS estates and facilities

Wouldn’t touch anything that comes under this job role title with a bargepole. More effort than it is worth as you will become a shooting goat between Sodexo and the NHS. Furthermore, I wasn’t treated fairly I was expected to take notes in quite high calibre meetings despite having no previous experience in the field. Furthermore, job didn’t turn out to how it was described. Management don’t really know how to manage and say some bizarre things to you occasionally.

Pros

Office hours, freedom to roam across hospital.

Cons

Stressful, some senior managers don't have common sense, become shooting out between Sodexo and NHS.
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Stressful

Very stressful and almost always understaffed!I have given 18 years to the service and watch the slow decline of our beloved NHS, it's a sad state of affairs and I don't think it will ever get better.It is broken beyond repair.

Pros

Nothing

Cons

Long hours, non stop, abuse of staff
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Busy

Very busy. Long days but always busy, Staff was great & management. Loads of different training in house and some at home. Learning about different areas

Pros

Learn new things

Cons

Long hours
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Excruciating !

What is the best part of working at the company?Going home end of shift best part What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Supervisors management poor no support What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Very poor not interested in your wellbeing, bulling culture passive aggressive What is a typical day like for you at the company?Over run with work covering other peoples mistakes
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Productive stressful with occasional perks

Working in theatres, city Hospital is largely ok. It depends on lots of variable factors namely which team members you are with, which list and with which surgeon or fellows. Sometimes lists are not planned well even though it’s down to scheduling and what they decide cases wise goes on in each list. It appears a competitive environment at times where some scrub people won’t be as helpful to another scrub practitioner when it’s there time to scrub. It also depends on who you have in your list as a floor person/circulator. Some band 2s appear somewhat challenged because of their size therefore completing tasks are cumbersome for them because they moan, find argument, like to dominate the narrative etc. management have favourites, no surprises there! You have to be careful choosing which speciality you want to go in, for ethnic minorities beware and choose wisely! Burns & plastics at city hospital does not treat ethnics well, so avoid like the plague. You get treated from medical reps on nights out with staff, which is lovely. I’ve been on a few and they are enjoyable.

Pros

Free meals out.

Cons

Long hours, high back biting & gossiping culture
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Ok

Ok place to work. Management could do with an overhaul. If you get a good team to work with you're sorted, if not, you're stuffed. Wage not reflective of duties and responsibilities - poor in comparison. Much room for improvement but no one listens.
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Great Place to work

I would really recommend it to any one.Amazing benefits, very flexible, Management try to get everyone involved in decision making.Probably the most flexible place I ever worked.
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Fulfilling but depressing.

What is the best part of working at the company?OK most of the time but occasionally not so good. As a man working in what is essentially a female dominated environment it can be both good and bad depending on with whom you work. I worked on a Covid19 ward for the whole of the pandemic and most of the staff I dealt with were fine some however were not. Although I don't suppose the constant patient deaths (13 on our 26 bed ward on one particularly bad day) improved their sense of wellbeing. But they did go in to work despite the personal risk so maybe its not surprising they were occasionally a bit snappy and miserable with other staff. The real problem with the NHS is the management. They never went or go near the wards and so have no idea what the staff are going through, yet they were so inflexible regarding some of the rules and completely failed to understand that people working on a ward that was infected with a potentially life threatening disease might just be feeling a little worried and concerned for their own safety while making things as comfortable as possible for patients that we knew were dying.What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Lower and middle management incompetence.What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Dangerous and depressing, a huge number of staff are on antidepressants or alcohol or both.What is a typical day like for you at the company?I am now retired I was considering continuing work but the Covid19 pandemic changed my mind after working on a Covid19 ward for the whole of the pandemic I had - 
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Rewarding and meaningful

This was a very positive experience. Management is always ready to support the staff and there was good team morale for the most part. Sometimes it can be challenging but it was always rewarding.
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