South London And Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Employee Reviews

I have worked within many roles within this organisation. I feel there is a lot of career progression opportunities in terms of learning and development. They offer apprenticeships and further training to enhance your knowledge. They remain up to date in terms of pay scale and advancements.

Pros

Development opportunities

Cons

Poor work life balance

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No support from management

Trainee PWP (Current Employee) - Lewisham, Greater London - 5 June 2023

Working in mental health, there is literally no support from seniors, massive gap between step care. Teams put all in and the senior management expects a lot in return no training and support for staff available.

Cons

Exhausting case load, you will only learn by making mistake and someone telling you off.

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Insights into South London And Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Based on 11 survey responses

What people like

Clear sense of purpose
Supportive environment
Feeling of personal appreciation

Extremely stressful and no support from management

Clinical Support Worker (Former Employee) - London - 31 May 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Staff works very hard for the patients and give their all on every shift. They work as a team What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Lack of support when staff get injured during work, lack of duty of care towards staff What is the work environment and culture like at the company?There is no support from management What is a typical day like for you at the company?Extremely hectic and stressful shifts

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OT service

Occupational Therapist (Current Employee) - London, Greater London - 16 March 2023

Well supported OT service with great CPD and progression opportunities. There is also opportunities to build connections with OTs across the boroughs.

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Supportive employer, excellent CPD opportunities

Occupational Therapist (Former Employee) - Lewisham, Greater London - 11 March 2023

SLaM has excellent research ethos and this keeps practice standards very up to date and high. Lots of learning opportunities to develop skills. Friendly colleagues

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Toxic workplace

Support Worker (Former Employee) - London, Greater London - 7 December 2022

Ironically SLAM is a mental health trust and the community mental health team ruined my mental health to the point of no return. On initial introduction, I realised that there is no regard for newbies and you shadow your way through the job. CPN’s are overworked and have unrealistic caseload numbers. Management is lax and lack professionalism. There are cliques and a lack of respect for staff. Support workers are under appreciated and micromanaged to the point where you feel bullied and singled out

Pros

None

Cons

9/5, lucky if your attendance is acknowledged

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Not productive

Cleaner (part-time) (Former Employee) - Denmark hill - 31 October 2022

Do not work here, you will regret it.... Wages are bad amd they overwork you... The managements are bad with bad supervisors... The place have so many toxic people that thinks they are better than anybody else... I wont even want my enemy to work here.

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Challenging workplace

Administrator (Former Employee) - South London, Greater London - 2 December 2021

Good place to work with challenging day to day requirements. It is a very demanding place to work, but hard and fair, a lot is expected from employees.

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Bullying

Community Psychiatric Nurse (Former Employee) - Croydon - 13 October 2021

I think management need to be reigned in more to reflect on their behaviour towards staff. There seem to be a lot of issues that are rolled under the carpet and this can be nerve wracking for employees facing such treatment at work.

Pros

Gained experience

Cons

Bullying

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Not enough Admin staff for amounts of work produced by clinical staff.

Admin (Former Employee) - Not stated - 28 August 2021

IT training i.e. Microsoft and digital training, not mandatory for clinical staff, leading to time consuming errors. Outdated administrative procedures necessary due to lack of IT knowledge by clinical staff.Systemic and hierarchical culture. Administration staff not listened to nor valued.

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staff nurse (Former Employee) - Beckenham - 29 April 2021

Restrictive bad practice, poor leadership, bullying culture. Very unsafe staffing levels and an overall, distinct lack of empathy and compassion towards patients.

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Excellent Team

Ward Manager (Former Employee) - Ladywell - 13 April 2020

I worked for South London and Maudsley NHS Trust for over 25 years and in many different roles. I enjoyed my work immensely and was proud to be part of an amazing team of staff on a difficult ward. However I cannot say the same of the Senior Management and HR staff, who had no idea what it was like on the frontline of Acute Adult Psychiatric Care.

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Great

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service User Mentor (Former Employee) - London - 23 March 2020

It was a great experience, and I received amazing training too which allowed me to succeed in my role as a volunteer. The role was also great, and I received support throughout.

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You must be able to use common sense

Porter/Driver (Former Employee) - London - 21 March 2020

I throughly enjoyed my time with Slam The work culture Also being a Mental hospital there are very in tune with the mental health of their employees, Which I found was a great help in dealing with The Stress full nature of inpatient, and Outpatients clients.

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Busy work place

Medical Secretary / Medical PA (Former Employee) - Camberwell, Greater London - 21 March 2020

This was an extremely busy role, where I had to take minutes at all MDT meetings for this role I had to cover several different sites and I had to type up allot of clinical letters using audio dictation. I also had scan all documents that came in and I had book all appointments. I enjoyed the variety of the role and the dealing with patients , I found that be very rewarding. I found the hardest part of this role was dealing with conflicting tasks and meeting the deadlines .

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Professional and values-oriented workplace

Charge Nurse (Former Employee) - London - 18 October 2019

Professional working environment where the pursuit of evidence-based practice and quality care delivery was always demanded. Great opportunities for professional development and growth.

Pros

Excellent professional development opportunities

Cons

Less support for staff wellbeing

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ok

Financial Analyst (Former Employee) - Bexleyheath, Greater London - 2 October 2019

my team was great. SMT was not so much not very supportive and too much micro management. loved my team great people and very understanding and supportive

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Unsupportive management

Ward manager (Former Employee) - Lewisham, Greater London - 26 September 2019

The support given to junior staff from the upper management is very poor and staff are generally underappreciated. There are numerous managers with roles that no one really knows what it is they actually do on a daily basis.

Pros

Colleagues

Cons

Unsupportive and dismissive management system.

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Can be very static

Vocational Specialist/ Self Directed Support (Current Employee) - Deptford, Greater London - 18 June 2019

Overall a pleasant place to work, but advised to take up all training and to keep abreast of changes that happen rapidly. It is a fast paced environment.

Pros

many different sectors of employment

Cons

poor career progression

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reasonable place to work

Housekeeper/support worker (Former Employee) - River house Monks orchard Road Beckenham BR3 3BX - 14 June 2019

What am reviewing !! A typical day could be that will be taking a patient to hospital appointment. whereby you make sure that section 17 paper sign by the ward consultant in advance. And you need to do all the necessary documentation. The hospital name and the time of going and time coming back Also you need to arrange for transport to get you there and back. plus you need the escorting staff at least 2 staff.

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As temporary worker who worked there for a short period, I liked how the staff and management were friendly, helpful, understanding and I was trained

Temp Administrator (Former Employee) - London - 19 April 2019

The staff and management were very friendly, helpful. I was trained, given support when required. I enjoyed learning about what illnesses the clients can have, how the teams seek to support them and the various services available.