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The Priory Group is a mental health care provider. They offer private and NHS mental health care services.

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The Priory Group job reviews

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  • Best thing

    Working with colleagues

    Worst thing

    Getting injured

    2.7

    The Priory Group Recovery worker, March 2024

  • Best thing

    Flexible, I work bank shifts and can take time off when I need to

    Worst thing

    The staff
    The competition when there doesn't need to be
    The favouritism
    Frequent sexual harassment that managers do nothing about

    1.9

    The Priory Group Employee, February 2024

  • Best thing

    Colleagues
    Caring patients

    Worst thing

    Everything
    Long hours

    4.6

    The Priory Group Healthcare assistant, January 2024

  • Best thing

    Good staff members

    Worst thing

    not consistent

    6.0

    The Priory Group Employee, January 2024

  • Best thing

    Working with incredible people

    Worst thing

    The pay

    3.4

    The Priory Group Employee, October 2023

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  • Best thing

    Helping vulnerable people

    Worst thing

    The stress

    8.4

    The Priory Group Support worker, September 2023

  • Best thing

    The residents are nice.

    Worst thing

    The terrible pay, terrible management and nasty staff.

    1.2

    The Priory Group Carer, August 2023

  • Best thing

    The 'Work as One' feeling - we're all aiming to reach the same goal - which is to make every service user have a better quality of life and help them through the care pathway.

    9.5

    The Priory Group Healthcare assistant, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Supportive co-workers

    Worst thing

    The pay is low

    3.7

    The Priory Group Administrator, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Colleagues

    Worst thing

    Some patients are violent

    9.6

    The Priory Group HCA, May 2023

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  • Best thing

    Building supportive relationships with patients.

    Worst thing

    Lack of respect for employees. Poor pay considering what is expected of us (exposure to physical and verbal abuse). Unethical treatment of patients and not enough agency as an employee (non-management) to improve the unethical circumstances for patients.

    3.5

    The Priory Group Healthcare assistant, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Learning about people’s lives before illness and old age.

    Worst thing

    Lack of direction from nursing staff, lack of staff available on the floor to assist with residents.

    6.4

    The Priory Group Care assistant, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Great Team, good work environment

    Worst thing

    Terrible pay, very little employee benefits

    3.7

    The Priory Group Employee, March 2023

  • Best thing

    The people I look after

    Worst thing

    The management

    2.8

    The Priory Group Support worker, February 2023

  • Best thing

    Sometimes we get job satisfaction

    Worst thing

    Been attacked, or taking verbal abuse from people that should not be doing it

    6.1

    The Priory Group Support worker, February 2023

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  • Best thing

    Speaking to the users

    Worst thing

    Reception work

    2.7

    The Priory Group Administrator, November 2022

  • Best thing

    Residents enjoying themselves

    Worst thing

    Not allowed to take a break but don’t get paid

    5.0

    The Priory Group Support worker, November 2022

  • Best thing

    Some members are a great asset to the team

    Worst thing

    Lazy staff members

    7.8

    The Priory Group Support worker, October 2022

  • Best thing

    Easy work environment mostly

    Worst thing

    Bad pay
    Incorrect payslips everytime
    Cannot leave work in emergency

    4.2

    The Priory Group Support worker, September 2022

  • Best thing

    My tean

    Worst thing

    Higher management not caring about staff

    6.0

    The Priory Group Support worker, August 2022

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  • Best thing

    Sometimes good stuff on

    Worst thing

    Work with the same person
    Money

    1.9

    The Priory Group Support worker, August 2022

  • Best thing

    I love my job, helping and supporting people who can’t do things for themselves

    Worst thing

    Managers have their favourites so I’m left doing the really difficult tasks and other staff members have an easy day

    3.7

    The Priory Group Support worker, August 2022

  • Best thing

    Caring and helping individuals to get the best they have with respect and dignity

    Worst thing

    Short staff to many agencies who don't know the residents constantly working with them and keeping an eye on them. Regular staff constantly having cigarette breaks whilst none smokers didn't even get there's as times run out forbreaks. Mangers on your back giving more work to be done.

    1.0

    The Priory Group Senior carer, July 2022

  • Best thing

    Breaks, friends,

    Worst thing

    Menager, salary, stress

    3.9

    The Priory Group Employee, July 2022

  • Best thing

    Meals provided.
    Spending time with patients.

    Worst thing

    MASSIVE blame culture. This takes up most of the bad things. Some staff encourage insubordination of management.

    3.0

    The Priory Group Health care assistant, July 2022

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  • Best thing

    The adults we support are incredible. A wonderful mix, a joy to be around and as stressful as the job is, their smiles and laughter are the best.

    Worst thing

    The expectations are too high and there is not enough staff to do things. Use of agency too frequent. Manager expects all tasks to be completed even if you are alone with agency. Often having to work overtime, longer hours and even 24 hours because staff drop shifts last minute.

    4.6

    The Priory Group Senior support worker, July 2022

  • Best thing

    The patients

    Worst thing

    Lack of health and safety, stress not taken seriously, no permanent staff, lack of care for HCAs

    2.0

    The Priory Group Health care assistant, June 2022

  • Best thing

    Feeling rewarded some days on impact you have on others

    Worst thing

    Always being asked to pick up overtime

    1.8

    The Priory Group Support worker, June 2022

  • Best thing

    The team I work with

    Worst thing

    Corporate putting profit over safety and care quality

    5.5

    The Priory Group Healthcare assistant, June 2022

  • Best thing

    Great ward based teams, always overtime potentials, good enhancements for nights and weekend work

    Worst thing

    Monthly pay varies all the time (can get between 12-16 rota'd shifts in one pay period), it's a Mental Health hospital that has no care for colleague mental health despite offering support you don't actually get support.

    3.9

    The Priory Group Health care assistant, April 2022

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  • Best thing

    Making a difference in the life of the people i care for

    Worst thing

    My management

    2.3

    The Priory Group Support worker, March 2022

  • Best thing

    I have the opportunity to study and get up to date training.

    Worst thing

    Have to work in the heat.

    8.6

    The Priory Group Care assistant, March 2022

  • Best thing

    Work with a good team

    8.0

    The Priory Group Care assistant, March 2022

  • Best thing

    I enjoy watching people recover from their illness

    Worst thing

    Money
    Hours
    Lack of support

    2.4

    The Priory Group Employee, March 2022

  • Best thing

    I enjoy my role, enjoy being with my colleagues, feel supported and feel optimistic about my career progression

    Worst thing

    Sometimes understaffed, some politics in the nursing groups, sometimes a stressful environment

    9.5

    The Priory Group Nurse, February 2022

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  • Best thing

    Work team, supporting vulnerable people

    3.0

    The Priory Group Employee, January 2022

  • Best thing

    Giving the residents the best quality life we can give.

    Worst thing

    The job is mentally very difficult to cope with

    7.3

    The Priory Group Support worker, December 2021

  • Best thing

    Working with Young people

    Worst thing

    Senior managers

    1.5

    The Priory Group Team leader, November 2021

  • Best thing

    People I work with

    Worst thing

    Higher management

    8.4

    The Priory Group Nurse, November 2021

  • Best thing

    I love my role

    Worst thing

    Being under paid for the responsibility I have in my job

    7.3

    The Priory Group Health care assistant, October 2021

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  • Best thing

    Swing improvements in patients. The staff teams

    Worst thing

    Short staffing that's not currently covered. Click culture in the work place

    8.4

    The Priory Group Staff nurse, September 2021

  • Best thing

    I make a difference to the residents

    Worst thing

    Sometimes short staffed

    8.0

    The Priory Group Support worker, August 2021

  • Best thing

    The residents we look after

    Worst thing

    Long hours, no sick pay, well below average pay

    2.0

    The Priory Group Senior support worker, July 2021

  • Best thing

    Some of the people and the individuals we support

    Worst thing

    The shift pattern, there isn't one

    3.0

    The Priory Group Shift leader, July 2021

  • Best thing

    enjoy working in admin and finance

    Worst thing

    lack of continuity around how staff are treated and certain "at mangers discretion " things are not always the same for all staff

    6.6

    The Priory Group PA, June 2021

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  • Best thing

    I can support girls who are struggling.

    Worst thing

    Poor pay. I have to deal with self-harm everyday, rarely get breaks. The management team don’t listen to staff.

    2.6

    The Priory Group Support worker, May 2021

  • Best thing

    Making a difference to sick patients /meeting interesting people. working together with nurses / consultants.

    Worst thing

    Short staffed sometimes which can have impact on duties and other members of staff. More training for some staff

    7.8

    The Priory Group Employee, April 2021

  • Best thing

    The staff team and the residents

    Worst thing

    The pay and conditions

    5.0

    The Priory Group Senior carer, April 2021

  • Best thing

    The people we support

    Worst thing

    Hours

    9.3

    The Priory Group Shift leader, March 2021

  • Best thing

    Some of the team are lovely.

    Worst thing

    Management, Constant changing of paperwork and how we are told to do things, poor staffing, lack of support, Coronavirus

    3.2

    The Priory Group Staff nurse, March 2021