Pros
great coworkers and residents, beautiful & new facility, good food, provided with all the necessary tools (gait belt, sit to stands, hoyers, etc)
Cons
Management is terrible. During the interview process and orientation the Sanctuary is made out to sound amazing. Pay is decent but all the "perks" they claim to have make the job seem well worth it. They say you will receive a good amount of PTO, be able to easily transfer to any St. Joes hospital or facility, tuition reimbursement after a year(true), and have 2 anam caras and 1 nurse per "neighborhood." NOT TRUE. You can only take a day, weekend, time off by using your PTO. You can't just request a long weekend or week off months in advance as unpaid. You can only take time off if you have and use PTO. If there is one open bed in a neighborhood they call staff and tell them not to come in to save money and not have to pay employees. The DON will literally take the schedule and call anam caras off in every neighborhood on each floor if the building is not fully occupied. They will also add you to the schedule on days not on your set schedule and not ask or notify you. Then you receive an extremely rude phone call from them where they bash you and yell at you for not showing up and say they are making you work on your weekend off. The DON is also sneaky, conniving, and completely fake. She'll ask employees "what the gossip is" and if you try to do a good deed and tell her when others maybe need some help with how to do something the right way or when others are doing something that isn't right she'll call them into her office and say' "so Jane told me you were doing this or that." She schedules aides by themselves on floors that have 80% 2 person transfers, lifts, stands, etc and when the poor employees do it by themselves so the residents don't suffer she'll then threaten to revoke their license. She's also been known to threaten to revoke it if you quit, and deny transfer requests to move to one of the hospitals. It's sad that it could be a wonderful place to work if management knew how to conduct themselves, treat employees properly, and schedule the staff they DO have correctly for the sake of the residents.
