Pros
Appreciative and pleasant residents: good facilities; good food (free meal each shift).
Cons
Brightview may be a great place to work, depending on your location. However, working here was a challenging and disappointing experience for me. The workplace culture promoted favoritism and a lack of accountability, and management repeatedly failed to address serious concerns. If you are less experienced or don’t fit into the prevailing workplace culture, you may face consistent disrespect from coworkers. Despite raising these issues with management on multiple occasions, my concerns were dismissed. Rather than fostering a supportive environment, leadership allowed these behaviors to persist, eventually escalating to an incident where coworkers ganged up and harassed me. Management and HR sided with them because they covered each other. It was simply more convenient for leadership to blame one employee rather than a group. Work priorities were also misaligned. Tasks were expected to be completed quickly—often at the expense of quality care. I witnessed numerous instances where basic duties were neglected, such as trash left over from previous shifts or insufficient cleaning of residents. When I worked extra hard to cover for others, my efforts went unrecognized, and I was instead accused of wasting time with residents. Even when I requested assistance and ended up waiting around, I was again criticized for mismanaging my time. Despite receiving positive feedback from residents regarding the quality of care I provided, my boss never acknowledged this specifically. It was always about getting my work done quickly and independently in a team setting. Meanwhile, several of my coworkers sat around on their phones. For those considering employment here, I recommend carefully evaluating whether this culture aligns with your expectations for fairness, teamwork, and professional support.
Pros
I am retired from a career in programs at a non profit human services organization and working part-time at Brightview Senior Living has given me the opportunity to continue to use my skills and experience plus find purpose and engagement in my retirement years. The work is so rewarding! I am able to develop meaningful relationships with the residents and the work environment fosters positive team collaboration with fellow co-workers.
Cons
There are no cons for me.
Pros
Sounded very good during orientation
Cons
I was hired as a Med Tech for the new Northfax location, but what was promised in the interview completely changed once hired. Because the community lacked the necessary operational licensing to have Med Techs working, management forced new hires to travel to various locations across Virginia and Maryland to work shifts as CNAs. While they claimed this was "training," it was explicitly admitted that it was just to give us hours because the Northfax site wasn't ready and wouldn't be for months. How can you "train" for a role you do not currently have the operational ability to perform at that site? Furthermore, this training could have easily been done at the locations they sent us to, rather than forcing excessive travel. The locations they demanded we travel to completely defeated the purpose of applying to a convenient, local community, and no mileage or gas reimbursement was ever offered to cover the extra commuting costs TO WORK these CNA shifts. When I politely voiced these concerns to local administration, the response was highly unprofessional. I was told I was "not a team player," that this wasn't the company way, and I was openly threatened that speaking up would hurt my chances of future advancement. Leadership used guilt tactics to cover up the fact that their own operational processes and licensing were not in order. Furthermore, when I requested to pause traveling to distant locations until I could speak with HR, local administration—including top site leadership acting as the regional HR contact—attempted to write the situation up as a "refusal to train" just to cover themselves. As of now, I still have yet to receive a response from regional HR to confirm if cross-state assignment in a different state where an employee holds no local license to work is even compliant. They tried to create a justifiable record against me when I chose to remove myself from that environment. You cannot force people to take a job they did not ask to do and then try to make them feel like they are doing something wrong. While CNA duties are a natural part of a Med Tech's scope, full disclosure from the start would have been the honest approach. The extreme lack of transparency from administration and the manipulative environment made it clear this culture was not what was sold to me. It was a massive management issue involving misrepresentations that go unaddressed.
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