licensed practical nurse

dining room server

resident assistant

cook

activity assistant

Traditions Management

You are a number to them.  No support.  They will promise you the world to get you hired and leave every day by 4 regardless of the business.  Place is depressing.  CNAs treat the clients pretty bad.  Can’t complain because as soon as you do the quit.  I think in a year we went thru over 30-40 cna’s and probably 3 receptionists. And close to over 30 food and beverage employees.  This to them is normal.  It is not normal people.  Upper management is ran by desk warriors who only leave their desk to eat lunch (1 hour lunch breaks for sushi were pretty normal).  The building could be on fire with people dying and they wouldn’t care.  To stay in business they promise residents the world and once they sign well good luck trying to get out of your lease.  They are literal snakes. I was embarrassed by what I saw and tried to keep the residents happy but when they are promised 5 different soups made fresh daily when you have zero staff (you get one cook for breakfast and lunch and one for dinner.  It was an act of god for me to get a dishwasher smh.  If someone calls on don’t worry you will be expected to work.  Favoritism to the extreme in this place.  Cherry picking of the rules was daily.  If you consider yourself a decent chef then do not take this job.  There are much better places to work.  The only reason I worked there was silly me I believed them I would have a good schedule.   I can’t stress this enough people...they have been thru 3 chefs in a year....chefs won’t work in this environment.  Stay away you have been warned

What is the best part of working at the company?
The residents were (are) for the most part bright, responsive and still highly cognizant.  They were open to new activities and ideas and friendly with staff and with each other.


What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The Director of activities is a micro-manager who has to oversee every activity and duty assigned to the Assistant.  The Assistant is under the constant stress of being watched constantly and being corrected any time she does not perform a task the way the Director perceives it being done.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The staff are for the most part friendly and helpful; there is, however a rapid turnover as staff members become aware that upper management is not "on their side" in any conflict.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Lead an exercise group first thing after arrival; lead various games and activities, including Bingo, card games and board games, a "happy hour" in the Pub before dinner which will include mixing drinks  and providing snacks for residents; Making sure the chairs and tables are arranged properly if there is an entertainer coming after supper, or during the day.  Seeing that residents of the Memory Care unit are invited to the entertainment and are safely seated; make sure those residents are adequately supervised.

This is an assisted living facility so the work for the nurses and aides are typically easier than a long term care facility.  Still, there are staffing shortages and aides are allowed to come in whenever they want.  There are aides that are chronically an hour late and somehow stay employed.  The 401k is really good.  If a 401k is really your biggest goal with a job then definitely work here.  Pay increases are terrible, about 3% annually,  there is no shift differential,  the PTO is terrible until you hit your 3 year mark and then it gets better.  You only earn 3.5 hours a month until you are there 3 years.  You do not get paid for holidays if you're not physically there working.  Like if it's a  regularly scheduled day that you work but it falls on a holiday and it's not your holiday to work, you will not be on the schedule and  your check will be 12 hours short.  You can probably use PTO if you have any, but you probably won't.  The charting for the nurses is really simple to use.  Employees get one free meal per shift which is nice.  The building is fairly new but has strong urine smell in the halls in certain areas.  The insurance is okay,  expect a fairly large out of pocket when you go to the doctor but insurance is like that everywhere anymore.  There are mandatory monthly meetings for all employees but no perks to attend.  

This place is an awesome place to work as compared to lot of other assisted living facilities. I don't know much about Memory care side but AL is piece of cake not saying that they don't have any flaws. Yes, the management/scheduler needs to work better on staffing. Short staffing is main problem is almost all the LTC facilities and the employees needs to acknowledge that and management needs to do something about it like giving out bonuses, encouraging/thank you notes etc. Which I have heard they are doing it recently with new WD:). NOTE TO THE MANAGEMENT: Please have someone who they can ask for help on first few days of nurse working by themself and especially the new grads nurses or else they're not going to last. And make sure there is atleast one experienced nurse in the unit if new grads is working by themself on one side just in case of emergency. 

NOTE TO EVERYONE: Please don't apply to any healthcare field if you are not going to treat patients/residents as if they are your family members. I have seen lot of employees that would apply for job to be on cellphones and get paid, lot of negligence in care, some would come and keep complaining without doing their jobs (use your hands and legs more and mouth LESS). 

Management does not care about the PCAs. Overworked, and underpaid. The same people are slated for being "on call" every weekend, and others just refuse to answer their phone when called with no reprimand. Wellness Director picks favorites, and does not discipline aides who do poor work as long as they're "buddies". They let certain aides work excessive amounts of overtime, when others have barely the amount of hours that they need to maintain full time. Management are nurses themselves, but they do not ever work the floor unless they have to and when they do, they complain about it the entire time. You won't know if you get requested time off until you get the schedule for the month, which makes it hard to plan anything in advance. 

Overall, pretty horrible place to work. They'll hire anyone off the street, and turnover is horrible. The staff meetings are solely so the wellness director can tell everyone what they are doing wrong. Accomplishments are never praised, and night shift is looked over. If they had new management, they would have a great facility. Quality of care and treatment of employees needs to match the quality of the building.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The residents. In a very short time, asks for me and became my new family.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
How can I even answer that? With any job having moments? Anything less or more would be a lie. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
We are a family. Doesn't matter where we are from, who we are, from different backgrounds or culture. We join together and learn each other. This makes us unite to a well balanced environment for our residents and each other working together in their home.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Amazing adventure with each resident. 
Schedules "they keep, for meals etc".
We work in their home. 
Residents that smile and hug you when you tell them your there. Hug, kiss your cheek and light up just to see your face. Telling stories about their life.  Wanting to know yours. It's amazing the knowledge.

I worked for traditions for 3 months. At first I loved working for them. The facility was so pretty and a clean envirment as well as what I assuemed at the time was great managment and coworkers. I injuried my back while doing a transfer and ended up in the hospital two days in a row. I had Medical notes from 3 doctors resitricting me from preforming my normal duties. I was fired during this time while waiting on my note from my docter to return to work. All while being told to let them know when I can come back and to get well soon. Long story short If you value your time and take pride in your work stay away from Tradtions of Lebanon. I still stay in contact with coworkers still working at the facility. Over and over again its being shown to everyone that managment treats their aides as expendible and under values them. Stay clear of this Facility if you value your time and hard work.

Management is AWFUL. They let everyone run around like the own the place. No one actually changed or cared about the residents and are too busy hooking up with each other wherever they can while working. PCAs and nurses bully other workers. They don’t understand work life balance and would try and schedule me for 4-6 night shifts in a row because they couldn’t keep people. Managers are bully’s and will let residents and their family’s walk over you and do whatever as long as they pay. Time off request RARELY get approved. I barley got my request off approved so I could walk at my Graduation. Truly the worst place to ever work and I would NEVER send someone I love or hate to live there because residents never get changed or fed if they want food in their room the aids will “forget” to get them food when actually they are lazy and vaping in the nurses station bullying others. 

Traditions Management (Middleton Senior Living) is an amazing place to work. This company is absolutely fabulous to work for. They treat their employees with respect and dignity. The management, wellness director and executive director specifically, are super caring, helpful, and understanding. This is the perfect job for someone who has dedication, who is caring, who is kind, and for people who like to do hard work even when it gets tough  . The wellness director is very flexible with schedules and understanding for with family emergencies. As long as you are willing to take care of your residents, and do your job at the best to hour ability, this is the best place for your to work. You will love the wellness director and executive director, they will make you apart of their extended family and feel right at home

Be prepared to be called every single day off and asked to come in because someone called off, throughout my 2.5 yrs there I went through many chefs all of which were awful at scheduling, at one point I just took scheduling over cause I was so tired of it, and be prepared to be made to feel bad for not coming in on your days off, also don’t expect any actual help from management when ppl call off (especially dishwashers), my managers always left us hanging even if it meant we had to stay a hour late while we watched them leave early. Also expect to constantly be understaffed cause the company is so cheap and chooses to understaff and overwork so they don’t have to pay more workers. I do not recommend working here especially if it’s your first job 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Licensed practical nurse 13 salaries reported	$28.73 per hour
Dining room server 1 salary reported	$15.50 per hour
Resident assistant 5 salaries reported	$16.80 per hour
Cook 2 salaries reported	$19.50 per hour
Activity assistant 9 salaries reported	$15.40 per hour

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