Spurgeons

Spurgeons Employee Review

Great team and supportive management.

Family Services Worker (Current Employee) - HMP SWALESIDE - 12 March 2019

I have been here a year and I love it but would like more responsibility and money. Travelling to and from the island is expensive for me and traffic can be a nightmare.

Pros

Too many to list

Cons

travelling

Ratings by category

5.0 out of 5 stars for Work/Life Balance

4.0 out of 5 stars for Salary/Benefits

4.0 out of 5 stars for Job security/advancement

5.0 out of 5 stars for Management

5.0 out of 5 stars for Culture

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Enjoyable and rewarding work with families and young people. Lack of much needed support and supervision from manager.

Support Worker (Former Employee) - Birmingham, West Midlands - 24 October 2020

Support work was rewarding with families. I learned a lot whilst working at Spurgeons and enjoyed supporting young people.Regular training and opportunities to do additional if money was available.However, there were not enough resources and heavy case loads made it difficult to achieve good outcomes for young people and their families.Unrealistic deadlines, high case loads without proper support or supervision. Management not available for workers to debrief and talk through complex cases. Awful lack of support to deal with team issues and manager was not respected by most of the team due to her ignoring there was a problem and not being present in the team office.Long service seemed to count for nothing and hard workers ( all of the team) were not valued or appreciated.

Pros

Flexible working

Cons

Poor supervision

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Good Team Working

Casual worker (Former Employee) - Rushden - 28 July 2019

I worked for Spurgeons on a casual basis helping with administration when required. Unfortunately there was no opportunity for myself to progress to a permanent position which would have been better for me personally for my career development. I loved my time working with the team, a very happy environment and well supported by management when I was employed by the charity..

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Great place to work

mentor (Former Employee) - Wolverhampton - 10 August 2018

Worked as a volunteer before I did my degree in youth work. Pleasant staff, good managers (been a while so may have changed) good training, advice and guidance