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● Work-life balance
Gavin Quincy has some of the best employees. Their hearts are pure and everybody works as a team. I've never walked into a job and felt comfortable, but at Gavin I feel like I belong, and along with everyone doing their job, we have good laughs and everyone I work with loves to eat like me LOLOL, plus my director and supervisor are amazing. I really love working at Gavin Quincy

● Pay & benefits
Benefits are great pay is great for substance abuse, higher than any company basically

● Job security and advancement
You can learn an incredible amount of information on a daily basis. Growth is wanted their, and working the 12 steps is key to keeping any job!

● Management
Their amazing. My supervisor is always there when I'm stuck, and she's extremely smart and helpful. She's understanding, and is respected by every staff because she's a great supervisor same goes for my director, she's incredible!

● Culture
We have every single culture part of our team !

● Overall
I absolutely love my position, love that I can grow, take trainings learn so much everyday, love the people I work with to! We work hard,and help all!

It was good and fun at first. I was new started three weeks ago, was a case manager at another job, never had a problem. I love what I did no at the end I did not feel good about what I did for example walking off the job but at the end of the day I started to see what other former employees of is talking about. Some of the clients I must say run the show there is no structure no discipline at the end of the day. Never have I had a problem with a client never not at any on of my jobs. But there is always going to be that one person. It seems lile the challenging case falls on the new people, when it has already been a tough case from the jump.

Salary is on par if not on the higher end for substance abuse facilities-none are paying salaries to brag about. 

Benefits package is wonderful-lots of vacation time, sick time and personal days, excellent health insurance. dental is alright. GREAT 401k match, tuition reimbursement

Sometimes stressful work environment but that is based on the population served-not specific to the company. 

Upper management is approachable but slow moving in rectifications.

Advancement is possible but limited as most advancement requires further degrees.

Genevieve McGuiness will lend much needed stabilty and professionalism to the Center for Recovery Services.
Cushing House for Boys and Girls is the Gold Standard for Residential Programs for youth and Gavin House is the model every Men's Residential Program seeks to emulate.
Lillia remains the backbone of both the Total Immersion Program (TIP) and the Center for Recovery Services.
Had it not been for a motorcycle accident I would be proud to still be working there.

Working with different people at different levels of sobriety is fascinating, because they all have good advice that I can implement into my work ciriculum which can help me better serve our clients and the community. 
I truly enjoy what I do when I am able to help someone move forward from where they were in the past stuck at. I do understand that all experiences are not so great or successful, but I use it as a learning tool on what I've learned from the ordeal and what I can do better to be someone that my clients and co-workers can depend on...Integrity means everything to me.

While the place has had in the past a great reputation, it is currently being run into the ground by a managment group that understands nothing about how to treat their clients let alone their employees. 

The management is, in a word, a joke. Employees are treated like cattle, and the clients are not well served. A once landmark institution for those trying recover from addiction has sadly turned into an establishment that cares more about profit than people.

My fellow coworkers are awesome, the work they do is unappreciated. Management is awful, nothing gets done if you report things. They cover stuff up that happens there. Once they have it out for you, just start looking for a new job. They will either make it uncomfortable to work there or find a way to fire you. Maybe other facilities are different but the former program director for Quincy was a terrible boss. They deny people help for personal reasons and beliefs. It’s human services but management sees you as another body put to work that sits in their offices watching the cameras.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I worked with some great people but there were more unprofessional staff that far outweighed the good ones.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Unsupportive management and a director who doesn't come out of the basement.  Its a very unhealthy work environment .

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very unhealthy work environment that starts from the top. A very toxic environment at times due to poor management.

I went into the job I wanted to help but I was overworked and they didn't care.  They were just trying to fill beds and the place became unsafe.  They raised our wages and thought that was enough but it was a place I thought I could help end I was in fear going to work.  No one took the safety concerns seriously.  I learned a lot on the job not lot of train gin in beginning lots of on the job training. U learn on your own 

There is a lot of unnecessary turnover as far as clients go. Filling beds is all they are concerned about. So when we get a client who is clearly active in addiction..it jeopardizes everyone's sobriety. They need a better intake process to ensure incoming clients align with the mission of the house. Directly working with the clients has helped me to see that much like a family you have to be careful who and what you allow in your home. I think the higher ups forget that when admitting. This is there home and we should be selective when admitting. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Recovery specialist 15 salaries reported	$24.00 per hour
Residential staff 7 salaries reported	$22.86 per hour
Counselor 10 salaries reported	$28.00 per hour
Recovery navigator 4 salaries reported	$24.50 per hour
Substance abuse counselor 2 salaries reported	$25.00 per hour

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