resident assistant

cook

housekeeper

medication technician

community director

Sodalis Senior Living

My experience at Sodalis is highly negative due to a hostile work environment. Residents and frontline staff deserve better from the corporate team. HR personnel and VPOs rarely stay longer than two/three months due to internal dysfunction. Promotions are often followed by demotions, as evident in their frequent announcements on facebook of " NEW VPO" NEW VP of HR" NEW REGIONAL MANAGER"... The current VP of HR openly admits to having no formal HR education, that gives you an understanding of how complaints are received and handled.

There is constant turnover in senior and corporate roles, with frequent procedural changes. At the community level, job security is nonexistent, and employees are micromanaged x100. You're threaten constantly, you're told to ask questions but if you do; you'll be berated. If you ask too many question, you'll be let go. You'll be insulted on calls as they think it's a form of endearment; highly unprofessional.

Pros: They provide back-to-school backpacks and Christmas toys for line staff's children, but these gestures are often leveraged for marketing purposes. Employees & residents are also asked to contribute to donations.

Management doesn’t care about staff nor resident safety, they have too many residents that are not supposed to be there due to their high level of care they require and this facility does not provide proper safety for staff like hoyer lifts, gait belts, etc to ensure safety of staff and residents, you basically gotta deal with total care residents without any proper safety measures taken by management or corporate. Corporate is just as horrible as management they don’t care about staff safety, they only care about making sure they fill every room so management can get those nice bonuses they get. The pay sucks for all the heavy lifting, turning, and high physical demands they require from you as an employee. Benefits suck, management is the worse they allow so much drama amongst employees, they hire just anybody too with no proper training or any cna license. This was the worst place I ever worked at. So very toxic environment, when you try to report issues management retaliates towards you for trying to do the right thing. Do NOT recommend. 

I am an RA. You’re basically a HHA but in a facility. The pay sucks but I was desperate to leave my other job so I took it. 
Be very cautious coming here! The training is next to none. If something happens to the resident, it ultimately is YOUR fault even though they don’t train you properly. Haca will be on your behind. You can go to jail if something happens even though you’re not trained. Honestly, it hasn’t even been a month yet and I already got another job lined up. This job isn’t worth it. At all. Use this as a stepping stone to get you by until another job comes along. I do NOT recommend it. Stay tf away from here. They’re extremely understaffed. My first night, the staff was complaining to me about how they hate it because the workload is too much and how they were not paid properly. Their paychecks were cut short. All they did the whole time was complain about how the company is changing for the worse. Do NOT apply here. Do NOT apply here. Do NOT apply here. Only if you absolutely must as it’s easy to get into it but leave once something better comes. 

Staff started out nice and caring as well as management when I was interviewed. When I started they game me 2 days of training and left me to myself after expecting to know what to do, knowing I have never worked in a facility. They have staff that don’t care about residents and only care about money. They allow staff to smoke cannabis on site. Management picks favorites and lets them call out multiple times. While the policy is only 3 per 90 days. They are not understanding of staff with children under a certain age and will write you up for calling out if you have issues. They will expect you to work as if nothing has happened after having serious medical conditions that require a break. Will terminate you for leaving after being sick. They constantly leave the place understaffed. We have a new employee every other day because they quit due to how people are treated. Residents are often left covered in BM and urine. 

The company president has demonstrated remarkable success in her career, which deserves recognition. However, there appears to be a disconnect between corporate leadership and the community level. Leadership roles are sometimes filled by individuals who lack the necessary skills or experience, leading to ineffective management. Regional leadership is often unresponsive, even when efforts are made to address concerns. The current director, despite limited experience, frequently deflects responsibility and seems to manipulate residents and staff—whom she barely knows—into making misleading statements. While the company initially held great promise, professionals seeking a supportive and growth-oriented environment may want to explore other opportunities.

I got hired without any experience, and there was a harsh learning curve. But the treatment to the staff and residents was unbelievably poor. There where 3 people max at a time working for my shift. A few people quit within the 3 month period. Which lead to me working by myself watching 18 people with deminta that like to wonder out their rooms at night. The job was set up practically impossible at times. The nights that I did get to work with someone, I had to deal with a micromanager who loved to gossip about the staff. The one meeting I went too the boss of the whole facility said “if you call in sick this month for whatever reason you’re fired, we can just hire someone else”. This leads into staff who have been there a long time being sick to work, a job in which you’re the one helping the ones highest at risk. Their job is just to keep the families of the residents money coming in. 

My job is very busy most of the time, but I almost always feel a sense of accomplishment at the end of the day. I am still learning every day. I have a great manager who answers all of my questions as well as coworkers who are willing to help me whenever I need their expertise. Family is highly valued within the company. There is especially a focus on the children of our front line workers. The company has special events for them year-round. The hard work that has been put in by employees of all levels during the past two hurricanes in Florida has been exceptional. I often describe my job as controlled chaos. If I don't stay organized & focused, it makes my work that much more difficult. But being able to help both front line workers, as well as the directors, I can find a sense of satisfaction whenever I complete my various tasks. 

This company overall has potential for growth and offers opportunities for professional development. However, one area of concern lies in the lack of effective leadership demonstrated by the executive director and health and wellness director within the organization. Their approach to teamwork is lacking, often resorting to blame-shifting and prioritizing self-interest over collaboration.

It is important to note that taking time off or calling in sick may result in reprimands, and there is limited support available for covering shifts. These issues directly stem from the directors' failure to fulfill their job responsibilities adequately. If you value a work environment characterized by teamwork, compassion, and trust, it may be advisable to wait until changes are made within the leadership team before considering employment in this particular building.

Management plays favorites so people that don't do their jobs don't get written up and people that bust their butts get wrote up. You can't advance with job placement due to management playing favorites so people that have been here for years get passed up for promotion and raises to other employees that have been here 2 months. Because of management playing favorites only certain people get overtime and only certain people get picked for employee of the month. Nothing with this company is done right or fair. And the only people that suffer are the residents because management is giving the praise to the wrong people. Also there is always drama which always leads back to management playing favorites. Love working here because I love my residents but honestly can say not much else is keeping me here these days!

There are no pros to this job. You are immediately cut off from staff since most of them have been there long term. It doesn’t matter how hard you work. Staff will tattle on you just because they don’t like you. The workload is insane. To work an entire hall by yourself is just CRAZY but it doesn’t seem like they care. Oh and training? I have a lot of experience in senior living care but it doesn’t matter. They you maybe two days of training and then throw you on the floor by yourself. Maybe other people will have a better experience but unfortunately, i was treated poorly and because i didn’t fit in, i was working maybe two to three days week at most and when i approached management, i was told that they needed to see how i would do before I was given more days. PLEASE do not waste your time here 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Resident assistant 44 salaries reported	$15.06 per hour
Cook 24 salaries reported	$15.75 per hour
Housekeeper 16 salaries reported	$15.50 per hour
Medication technician 31 salaries reported	$16.15 per hour
Community director 15 salaries reported	$65,800 per year

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