state tested nursing assistant

licensed practical nurse

maintenance person

housing manager

service assistant

United Church Homes

This job, has been my first aide job, and that being so I expected so much more. Honestly the job, is the best i've had in a long time.. Lazy nurses and my coworkers (other aides) have made the experience not so enjoyable for me. The management doesn't want to get involved with issues between aides because they felt it was juvenile, which everything has been.. it's all he said/she said, and nobody will just let it go and move on. This has been the hardest part of my job.

I do feel I need to say that they are divided into 4 different courts, and the drama has only been on one court,and it's been the only court I've worked on. The turnover rate on that court has been insane.. the rest of the floors are awesome and all the people either get along really well both in and out of work.. Or they just get along at work and then go their separate ways at the end of the shift. I long for that kind of work relationship, one that doesn't involve being screamed at over where I put the towels for resident clean up in the morning.

Wouldn't know a typical day at work because I was never trained on the shift I was hired to work. As for the other shifts, work in comparison to other places was good. Not hectic at all. The orientation was equally bad  with the instructor/nurse  who was in charge of it was dismissive and disrespectful, as was the HR rep. The staff are lazy, and full of gossip about one another as well as the residents. Cannot tell you the "sideways look" I'd received when I'd dared to clean a resident while changing their brief.  The carpeting is long overdue for a good steam cleaning as well. I can assure you there is nothing "united" or "christian" about this organization. Add to that the lack of a generator in case of blackouts or brownouts,. Do tell, WHERE does all that donated money go to?  Lastly, the lack of schedule posting is ludicrous.  How is the staff to be informed of who's working when? The app given to download one's schedule ONLY shows that employee their own schedule, and no one else's..

I worked there as a PRN STNA. I loved the residents. Most of the other aides are pretty good but there’s a few lazy ones too and nothing gets done about that. Most of the nurses are pretty decent. The pay is low. The reason I left was because I was hired as PRN. And I worked A LOT of hours. Hours are there if you want them. I told them far in advance I needed Thanksgiving off and would not work. But they went ahead and scheduled me to work it. So I contacted the lady that does the schedule and she ignored my texts. So I was PRN which meant I didn’t get the pick up bonuses or the benefits of being full time, was working full time hours, and in the end they decided they would schedule me as they seen fit and when I wanted to have this corrected was met with no answer.

You will be berated, belittled, cursed at and screamed at by management! Corporate will do nothing about it because they view you as "just maintenance" and as an uneducated, substandard employee. But, you will be responsible for the largest community in the company. You will be told you're full time but will only get part time hours. However, you are still expected to perform full time work. So you are running around all day and will not even have time to take a break just trying to get everything done. They want a full on contractor but only want to pay for a part time janitor. Finally, don't bring in any personal items and keep as many things locked up as possible! Management will go though everything in your locked office and you will see your things disappear!  

A typical work day is being beat up by most of the residents at the community.  Then you get beat up by management for the decisions you made on behalf of the community.  The most enjoyable part of the day was spending it with the two people I worked with at the complex.  That was my only release.  

They tried to hire me at a ridiculous wage and finally got them up to what I thought was fair.  I was wrong.  No amount of money is worth the stress, anguish and headache I endured there.  I had hardly any training and was like a fish out of water.  The regional manager was in a different state and micromanaged every decision I made and the corporate office is in Ohio. 

There were several residents that were wonderful to me and I will sorely miss them.

United Church Homes looks good on paper, but it is not a good place to work. The culture is bad. They do not live the mission, vision and values they constantly preach. People are way over worked and under paid. When someone quits, they don't refill that position, but those left take over the workload. Healthcare benefits are terrible unless you buy the top level.But no one can afford.Few holidays and little paid time off. Salaries for anyone under VPs or directors are way below national average. The best part about this place is not at corporate but at the senior communities.

Management was great, great atmosphere but they only wanted me to work part time in central supply when it is a full time department. They will want you to do transports and work as an aide all the time and you cannot keep up on the most important things for your job. They also want you to work for less money when working as an aide so who wants to work for less money doing alot harder work? Overall I liked everyone I worked with just they need to get their priorities straight.

I have been with the company for 6 months and I’ve never felt more appreciated and understood as a manager/employee. Everyone wants to hear me struggles and successes, and they’re constantly checking up on me. 
As for the job itself, it’s stressful. It’s a LOT of hard work that I’m willing to do, but with many obstacles in the road that some days make my job seemingly impossible. This is where all of the outpouring resources come in. 

Upper management is non-existent. They make appearances but do nothing else. All departments are severely understaffed yet UCH doesn’t care and won’t approve new hires. Many long term employees have/currently are leaving; I’ve never seen anything like this. Zero respect, zero transparency, zero communication. Completely overworked, burned out, SEVERLY underpaid for the workload. They don’t care about the residents either! Their only concern is profits. 

It’s very stressful do to some of the residents never happy no matter what you do. The best thing to do is always keep your door closed only communicate with residents when need too and let them deal with their own issues with each other. If you try and help and they don’t like out come be prepared to have corporate called on you for some reason or lie. That’s a typical day at HardinCrest

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
State tested nursing assistant 9 salaries reported	$20.88 per hour
Licensed practical nurse 12 salaries reported	$28.17 per hour
Maintenance person 30 salaries reported	$17.37 per hour
Housing manager 15 salaries reported	$44,369 per year
Service assistant 1 salary reported	$15.00 per hour

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