NSPCC reviews about "opportunity"

A big silo of other silos. No diversity. Earned less than the living wage for 2 years, friends working in bars and restaurant kitchens earned more. Living and paying rent and bills was a struggle and monthly debt When speaking with management mock empathy and a hard no but then increase work load and continually criticised, very toxic. very hard place to work if not in the in crowd. It's obvious that opportunities for growth and development and progression and fair salary are only very specific set of people that work here - if different to this specific set, there is no chance. Good people leave in droves. Old boy and girls network stays.

*emotionally demanding with exposure to regular high risk traumatic content *kPI pressures high. For some part time workers unachievable - acknowledged by senior management but no changes made. *poor support from management, including poor, inconsistent or completely lacking supervision opportunities *staff wellbeing does not feel valued *Night / Twilight practitioners are left isolated *retention appears very challenging *terrible annual leave process, particularly challenging for parents / those with additional responsibilities *Not family friendly

Pay progression is limited, though there is lots of opportunities to be seconded to other roles. Lots of pressure to perform and you are expected to do a thousand things under one job role

I regularly have dreams where I’m either crying and distressed because I’m leaving as there was no occupational or any support when I had a work related break down due to burn out or where I’m returning and confused about being asked to return. There’s been a loss of earnings as a result of what happened and I’ve lost out on around £10’000each year since leaving in earnings since as well due to the damage to my career path which I’m still trying to get back on track with. A job I dreamed about after being a volunteer turned into a nightmare because of bad management and it’s still unresolved as a result of a lack of accountability from management that provides ‘counselling’ and mental heath support. This almost destroyed me and set me back but they got away with it, without an apology.

- Inconsistent levels of responsibility vs. pay - Unclear and demotivating staff appraisal and development processes and opportunities - Lack of organisational direction

Lack of opportunities and progression. Lots of people sitting pretty in management and not moving on. Pay is terrible. People move on because they can’t afford to stay any longer. Fine with a young family when you need flexibility but no good if you want a career. Lots of female employees in community fundraising for a reason! The charity takes advantage of this.

Lack of pro activeness and awareness

- Bogged down in processes. This is a waste of valuable paid time. - Too much working in silos. - Pay isn't great compared to other charities and therefore high turnover of staff.

As others have said management is problematic in a number of ways, particularly micromanagement. I've seen bias within the organisation/team. I've felt overworked at times and the true value of work isn't reflected in pay. Pay varies among people doing the same job. You can clock up a lot of TOIL but taking this off leads to a cycle of playing catch-up. If they had to pay overtime they might have more realistic and better thought-out expectations. Little opportunities for progression especially for BAME staff. Seems to always be cutting jobs/restructuring.