Lancashire County Council job reviews

The children I work with

The management

School holidays

Busy at certain times of year with no assistance.

Service users

Management very unhelpful and seem to take great pleasure in running staff into the ground

unpaid school holidays

Need a crystal ball

I enjoy supporting people to live a happy life

Flexible rotas so we can't plan our home life

Team I work with and the residents

Pressuring workload

Working conditions

New unfriendly software

It’s very flexible and rewarding

Being on-call

The team I work with

Never see management not kept in the loop of what's going on

Making life's better

Not enough staff

Seeing children’s faces when they understand something after working hard to figure it out.

Some staff being supportive.

The clients.

Management dont listen to staff.

The team I work with.
Helping students

Workload
Lack of consistency

Trying to help guide teach and educate a child who hasn’t had that in their life

Flexible hours
Leave
Sick pay
Working from home

Salary
Mnagement
Restructures

Security if you work hard and conscientiously.

Feel like you are tethered to the desk and constantly being monitored, watched and scrutinised

Kids making a difference going beyond

Kids, being undervalued working as a teacher but getting paid as a cleaner actually expected to be a cleaner

Making a difference to children and parents

Inconsistency in procedures

That every day is different

Fix rota

Not enough staff to cover the work load

Variety. Interesting. Rewarding.

High workload, pressure of workload.

The children

The messy classrooms

Working with children, colleagues

Stress, workload

The staff team and SLT. sLT are professional and skilled with students and parents beyond any previous experience.

Unnecessary duplication of work to meet inappropriate and unrealistic statuary guidance that the county council can't match so why burden schools with additional work load and tight timescales when the county council re years behind.

Variety and fulfilling

Wasting time

I get to have time off when my children do.
Job satisfaction seeing children succeed.

The workload is horrendous. Be prepared to work outside your contracted hours in the evenings and at weekends, and during unpaid time in holidays too.

Also be prepared to have many members of the public slate you and your profession regularly and tell you how to do your job.

Be prepared to be totally unappreciated by the government.

Because you can only take time off in the holidays you'll find it difficult to get away due to school holiday costs.

The children

Never feeling like you’ve completed a task due to constantly shifting goals!

People, holidays are huge, bosses are understanding and helpful

Occasionally understaffed, pressure comes all at once and can't be spread out

My work colleagues are what keep me there

Not being supported by management when students are difficult

my peers are great to work with

There isn't any

I have no choice in what happens

Positive benefits for clients.
Team members.

Workload that stops me providing clients with what they need and deserve.

The holidays, working with some great students

Having to go above and beyond with no thanks, also teaching weeks on ens when im not a qualified teacher

Working with children

The long hours

I enjoy caring.

Unapproachable management

Clients

Work load no time no thanks

The money is regular

Condition of workplace is lousy

Working with amazing children. Seeing the grow in confidence and ability. Playing and caring for them.

Cliquey staff teams, low pay, difficult to progress

Some of my colleagues

The management team

Time of shifts length of day

Other people not doing the job properly

Choose when I want to work

Happy to be there get job satisfaction

Rotas

Seeing children progress

People who don't do their job properly

Days off

25 hour shifts, lack of sleep and too much red tape

Good pension and holidays.

Poor management.

Paid holidays

Isolation and pay

Making a difference

Not getting much sleep