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I was the client. The caregivers were kind, caring and more than qualified. They are the ones holding this company together and bringing in handsome profits for the owners. The owners are another story. Care givers are required to donate two hours of their time on a 12 hour shift, only being paid $80.00, thus $8.00 per hour. If you work a 14 hour shift you are only paid for 8 hours. If you complain about pay, working conditions, lengthy drives, quick shift turn-arounds, abusive treatment from the office staff, late paychecks, etc, you are told you can be fired. Serious problems are destroying this company but the owners bury their head in the sand and will not listen to the people in the field that are doing this work out of the goodness of their heart. No recommendation from me. Treat your caregivers with respect, give them more money to start, give them raises beyond the whole 25 cents per years you give and give raises more often. There is a limited pool of people you can pull from for new hires and as your reputation spreads as to what a lousy employer you are people will not be knocking on your door looking for work. Turn your attention to retaining the people you have and treating them fairly.
Most unprofessional company to work for out of all care giving institutios in Pennsylvania ! Do yourself a favor and make home instead of York your last resort when tryingto find a job. This company treats their employees like numbers and not people. If it were possible I would give this company zero stars. No professional ethics what-so-ever.
I heard a lot of bantering about "professional". My experience was a far cry from professional. The CAREgivers are treated like second class citizens and treated as though we are dumb, blind, and stupid. I heard alot of talking down to CAREgivers. The office staff appeared to "feed" on the day to day dramas of client/CAREgiver interactions, instead of being problem solvers. The CAREgivers are the representatives "in the field" and need to be compensated fairly. CAREgivers are caring and hard working people and we need to earn a living wage. I LOVE the clients...that is why I am in this line of work. Being in the business of caring Home Instead could start with treating it's employees with care. Happy employees that are valued, treated with care, will have more energy to share with the clients as their own basic needs are being met. Only work here if there is no other option!
They are charging the client $19- a hr for services and the caregiver is only earning $9-...something horribly wrong with that picture!The Medford franchise does have paid vacation after one year, but benefits to speak of.
I went in to fill out an application and heard the owner trash talking one of the caregivers for all to hear! Then when I map quested the location of where I would be going I decided it wasn't worth the 30 round trip for 8.25/HR..I went to the office to turn in my shirt and the woman who hired me said I "wasted her time for hiring her" !!! I love caring for the elderly but come on people it's 2012 And times are tough! I can work at my local gas station for more than 8.25/HR and don't have to travel so far!! There is no paid time off, sick leave, vacation, nothing! People do yourself a favor and realize that you deserve better!!!
There were no perks to this position-- just stress and getting walked all over.
This company will do anything to make a quick buck, even if it means screwing over there employees and clients. TO many illegal practices.....The lie and cheat and overcharge. For being a "Christian " company. I don't see them representing God at all.
There are NO pros to working for this company.
I interviewed with this company and thought they wanted an awful lot for minimum wage. Not only that, I would have to maintain a cell phone, pay for gas, pay to register with the state, pay for uniforms and ah yes be able to lift my clients out of the car. No benefits either. You can work as many hours over 40 and you still don't qualify for any benefits. FORGET IT!
Insane! I would love to work with seniors, but this was beyond what I thought was fair. I'll go another route thanks.
Worst Company I have ever worked for!!!! Please if anyone thinking about working for them, don't waste your time and enargy, they are very unprofessional and unfair, they make their money through their care giver but don't treat them fair, they don't pay ypu on time like a normal company will, if you are relying on them to pay your bill, forget it!! They will pay you last, like third class citizen or something, you wait for your pay check and it won't come untill 8th or 10th of the month, beside they won't pay you all the shifts you work, and if you even clock in right they try to say , no you did not work that much, they says they are non medical, but they want you to do everything a CNA would do and only pay $8 or $9?? when thay say its a home maker assingment, although you were hire as a PCT, they client wants you to work as a marymaid, scrub their bathroom, spring cleaning etc. and at the end of the shift you will end up with hardly making $25, come on! if I want a maid job I don't need to go to school for my degree, even mary maid end up earing more than $50 one time, you don't need nurses,CNAs to work for you, please if any one from the company reading this be fair to your emplyee, pay then on time and fairly, we work hard, we are the one who are srving your cleint, not your rude and stupid office emplyee who call you 20 times , any time of the day and night and ask for go to a client right away, wtf?? I hate this comapy, many of their client told be they charge them too much and if I can work for them personaly, I refused but that wasn't a bad idea! lets all worker get together and sue this company for their unfairness.
no benefits, no vacation, I have nothing good to say about them only my good advice not to work for them
this company promises a lot and does not deliver. They only pay caregivers $9 an hour and I was told we don't get any kind of raise until 1 year. I always end up working extra shifts and they dont pay me overtime once I am over my 80 hours like they should, And I'm an hourly employee. I take on extra shifts in hopes of a little extra money but it seems the more I work the less I make. They don't list the hours worked on the paystub so you can't be sure how many hours you are being paid for. The office staff lacks communication skills and have on more than one occasion been rude or short with me for no reason.
I have never worked for such a horrible company in all my years of working, nor have I ever made such a low amount of money and felt hussled. I wouldn't recommend this company for employment or for people in need of a caregiver.
They don't keep communication with their clients either while they are ripping them off. Clients pay $20+ an hour for caregivers but caregivers only make $9?!?!?!?! WTF?!?! hardly seems fair. I'm doing all the work and they make all the money?!
There are no perks of any kind with this job! Don't waste your time!
Office staff will try to give u clients that lives near your area. They know I
Will not go too far because the 2-3 hours of work in a father area is not worth my drive & it is just a waste of my gas.
I love all my clients and I've grown close to most of them.
If u need a day off they will can have someone cover you.
What I dislike is that the office staff are at times unprofessional, unfriendly and uncaring. Sometimes I feel they take the caregivers for granted & they dont take our situations & feelings into consideration.
I've been with the company for almosT 2 years. Started of with $9/hr. Now I'm making $10. It's oookkk. It can get better because I'm helping a married couple. I'm supposed to only care for the female client but most of the time I'm caring and helping the husband as well. I asked for an increase but I was ignored. No paid time off, no bonuse not even during Christmas, no medical/dental/vision what so ever, no sick leave, no tuition rebursement, no vacation, no 401k. NO BENEFITS AT ALL. Only workers comp since it's the law!
It is a very rewarding experience to help a person either come home after a nursing home placement, or to help them avoid nursing home placement. The work is per diem, and you can specify when you are available- this makes it very flexible. You can be asked to work more, but you can say no. The owners of the franchise I work for provide excellent support and training.
The only down side is that many seniors who need the service cannot afford it because it is non-medical care which insurance often does not cover. This means the clients are mainly upper class. I'd prefer to be able to serve people from a range of socio-economic backgrounds.
I think the compensation is fair. It is above minimum wage and less than $10.00 an hour. But you can call in if your sick and not worry that the person you care for and their family will suffer for it. The office finds people to cover for you. They also are good about offer extra shifts. If you had to take off certain days, you can make it up in this way. This is a well managed franchise office in Auburn, NY. That means I can take vacations and still make enough to supplement our household income. It is per diem, so the vacations aren't paid, but their is overtime for holidays and a little bonus around Christmas each year.
I enjoyed my clienst a lot, but found NO support from the staff. The handbood says around the clock support, but if you called after hours for anything, you got in trouble. You could not defend yourself against anything you did that they disagreed with. In the end, another caregiver was horrible to me, and my boss said I was competeing with her for the clients love. Come on! Plus the pay is lousey for what you''re expected to do.
Loved my clients but found that some caregivers were competetive and found no support from the office staff.Starting salary was $8.00. Ended at $8.75. It took 500 hours to get a raise.
Do not work for this agency!!!! MUCH better locally owned agencies with higher pay. Terrible office staff with no customer service skills- pay employees 7.25-7.50 an hour- LOL.
No pros except clients- but clients suffered from unprofessionalism and low moral of this agency.
I began my experience with Home Instead Senior Care as a volunteer with Be A Santa to A Senior, then worked as a CAREGiver and now work in the office as administrative staff. I have been with the company over two years. I know first hand the dedication our CAREGivers show to our clients; they are extraordinary people and while this job might not pay as much as I would like, there are more rewards than money to be had. If a person is just in it for the money, this is not the job for them.
I have NEVER worked in a more personally fulfilling job. I see the positive impact we have on our client's lives every day and I feel that we have a positive impact on our CAREGiver’s lives as well. I know that at our office, we strive every day to deliver an exceptional experience for both our clients and our CAREGivers but we cannot please everyone ALL of the time. We set high standards for our employees and our office might not be the best employer match for everyone. The work is challenging, fast-paced and changes from day to day and I love it. We take a team approach to customer service and problem-solving.
If you are seeking a job or seeking care for a loved one, it is important to know that each Home Instead Senior Care office is INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED. You need to judge your local Home Instead Senior Care office on its own merits. Personally, I would not trust the care of my parents with any company EXCEPT Home Instead Senior Care and I cannot imagine working for ANY other home care company.
Terrible company to work for and all the clients and their families complained about so many issues like how the Home Instead Senior Care staff was so rude to them when they raised any concerns like they never ever had the same caregivers. Caregivers were paid so little and no raises or benefits were given by this Home Instead. Owners said we had to work every time we were called for a case for this very part time job and if we didn't take all of the jobs we were threatened we were going to be fired. They didn't care we needed more income and already took another job from another agency or made another commitment with our famiily just as long as they got what they wanted. The experience was so heartbreaking that quite a few caregivers all quit at the same time since we didn't believe in this company or their service.
Loved caring for the clients but hated how we saw the office treated clients as well as how the owners treated all the staff. No raises but they were promised at the interview, no vacation, no bonuses, no respect. Paid under $9.00 per hour even though the clients paid over $20.00 per hour.
Thought this company was all about caring and helping seniors but found out it wasn't at all about anything except making money and treating employees less than dirt and paying them about the same as dirt. The owners were intimidating and demanding. Saw so much more that can't be listed hear due to your agreement. The concept sounds good but thats the only positive
Was not paid fenough for the position or the abuse. NO benefits