Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Employee Reviews

Employed as a senior experienced nurse, all of my suggestions for improvement or change were ignored. Do not allow you to progress to higher bands unless your prepared to work full time

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Highly respectable

Work Experience Placement (Former Employee) - Truro - 21 July 2018

Very admirable and I am very lucky to have had a work experience placement there. It's a busy but with a great atmosphere of everyone working hard and giving it their absolute best. I couldn't credit the staff enough for what they do for the people.

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Insights into Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

Based on 22 survey responses

What people like

Ability to learn new things
Feeling of personal appreciation
Clear sense of purpose

Areas for improvement

Time and location flexibility
Fair pay for job
Trust in colleagues

Welcoming

Administrator (Former Employee) - Truro, Cornwall - 2 May 2018

Filing, data entry, photocopying etc. Enjoyed my placement here, I was welcomed into the team and they taught me what I needed to know and were happy to explain again if I felt I needed a further explanation.

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Diverse, fast paced and rewarding.

Health Care Assistant (Bank) (Current Employee) - Treliske Hospital, Truro - 27 March 2018

This job role changes from day to day, and ward to ward. A typical day will include monitoring patients vital signs, taking care of the personal hygeine of patients and making sure all documentation is up to date and acurate. I have learnt how to identify when a patient is declining in health and aid in preventing any further decline. I have also learnt how to deal with and de-escalate extremely confused or aggressive people and have great skills in time mangement and using my own initiative. On many ocassions I have had to deal with emergnecy situations calmly, effectivley and patiently. The hardest part of the job can be keeping a smile even when you are dealing with death, however I have managed to do this on countless occassions for the sake of the other patients, my collegues and the relatives that all need our support. The most enjoyable parts of the job can be when your patient smiles happily because you have made them more comfortable, or helped take away their stress in some way and when you see a patient leave hospital well again, there is nothing quite so satisfying.

Pros

Rewarding and plenty of overtime available.

Cons

Lack of breaks during a twelve hour shift.

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Poor management

Staff Nurse (Former Employee) - Truro, Cornwall - 22 January 2018

There are to many managers who are welling to walk over others to get to where they want. There are good nurses there but there is a culture of blame in the institute. The worst part of working there is the continous looking over your shoulder to see you are safe at work. The best part was caring for my patients.

Pros

Pension2

Cons

No Support

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fun workplace

Porter/ Cleaner (Current Employee) - Cornwall - 17 November 2017

a good place to work , really enjoyed working there, talking to lots of different people and seeing how different parts of the hospital work, good hours.

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dissapointing

Head Gardener (Former Employee) - Truro - 7 November 2017

very excited to get a opportunity to work here, however once I got my foot in the door I was completely astonished how backward everything was. I worked on the external side on the grounds, poor machinery, staff moral dreadful. and even though I had all the qualifications and was in a senior role my staff were on more money than me and without the correct qualifications. a soul destroying place to work. lasted four months. just a totally disheartening experience. so much responsibility and issues to take on that are already seriously wrong.

Pros

some flexibility with working hours

Cons

poor staff moral and too many people in shirt and ties being paid to cause problems

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Good

Healthcare Assistant (Former Employee) - Truro - 23 October 2017

Good employer, however it is hard hours and difficult to maintain a work life balance. The benefits of working for the NHS are good with good pension and good holidays.

Pros

holidays

Cons

long hours

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stress full

patient transport coordanator (Current Employee) - Truro, Cornwall - 25 August 2017

extremely busy with not enough staff to carry out the work not valued as a member of staff management not in the real world bullying by management management Enjoyed helping people helping people

Pros

pay

Cons

management

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great place to work

Mechanical Craftsperson (aprentice) (Former Employee) - Truro, Cornwall - 24 July 2017

The RCHT was a brilliant place to work, my colleges were fun to be around and very friendly and the work that I had to do there was easy to pick up on.

Pros

great staff

Cons

got very dirty a lot of the time

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Healthcare Support worker (Former Employee) - truro - 5 April 2017

Its a very rewarding place to work. However some management are not good at supporting any problems. They are struggling to keep staff as its badly organised and overstretched. Many staff been there too long and lost the care ethic. I think its just that place and not the whole nhs. It needs a good shake up!

Pros

good rate of pay

Cons

doesnt support whistle blowing

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Diverse and rewarding environment and work place

Health Care Support Worker (Former Employee) - Truro, Cornwall - 11 March 2017

Assist patients of the hospital (usually Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro) with personal and medical needs, assist nurses, doctors, specialists and other hospital staff on the ward towards accomplishing a shift, ensuring stocks are available, assisting with meal times, cleaning duties, writting incident reports and narratives relating patients behaviour when required, etc.

Pros

Diversity

Cons

High pressure at times

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fun workplace

Health Care Assistant (Former Employee) - Cornwall - 3 March 2017

i would have night shifts from 8pm-8am and i would start by hand over. ive learn to communicate more to people and making sure that i understand. also, the management have been so patient and helpful as i go with night shifts. hardest part of the job is having patients that physically hurt you due to mental issue and also staying up all night. enjoyable part of my job is meeting elderly and wearing their stories and having conversations with them.

Pros

good salary

Cons

long hours

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Very good place to work just needed to move closer.

Security Guard (Current Employee) - London - 15 June 2016

I had an amazing time at RCHT and I met friends for life. I worked there for over ten years and leaving was very difficult because I met very good friends, good atmosphere and I feel accepted during my time there.

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very friendly work evironment

clinical support worker (Former Employee) - Truro, cornwall - 16 March 2015

very job friendly well organised, lot of opportunity to learn and develop, very polite and friendly people. eco friendly materials, very co operative staffs. the management listen to everyone's problems and try to resolve it as soon as possible.

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Enjoyable place to work

Medical Laboratory Support Worker (Former Employee) - Truro, ENG - 8 December 2014

the work was very fast paced but the other members of staff made the job enjoyable

Pros

company benefits

Cons

distance to travel to work

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OK, but not long enough hours.

Children's Community Therapy Assistant (Former Employee) - Truro, ENG - 3 November 2013

s development, which was a very good feeling. However, they could not offer me longer working hours, which made me seek work in Boots as I am working 40 + hours there every week.