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Personal Support Worker (PSW) Reviews
What is it like working as a Personal Support Worker (PSW)?
June 2015
Personal Support Worker (PSW):
Pros: I can pick my hours. I can wear my own clothes.
Cons: Getting paid every two weeks,
May 2015
Are seniors' emotional and physical needs being met?
Personal Support Worker (PSW):
Pros: People come in all shapes and sizes, but to be a whole person, the one thing we all have in common is the need for emotional and physical support.
Cons: We focus too much on the physical needs and forget that we cannot live a full life without physical AND emotional needs.
May 2015
A rewarding career choice.
Personal Support Worker (PSW):
Pros: Assisting people to live the most independant and dignified life they are able. The one on one interation with these people.
Cons: Listening to co-worker's complain.
March 2015
Personal Support Worker (PSW):
Pros: The service users I work with are lovely.
The hours are reasonable.
Made some good friends.
Get to go out and about with service users.
Cons: Pay is rubbish for what we have to do and put up with.
Get treated like rubbish.
Holiday allowance is not good.
Stressful.
No pay for sick days until 6 month probation period is over.
They don't communicate with you, so you often have no idea what is going on,
They put you down to work on your days off without asking you first.
Work bank holidays, including christmas day.
February 2015
Personal Support Worker (PSW):
Pros: Good pay,
Cons: No bad things.
January 2015
More staff.
Personal Support Worker (PSW):
Patience, and work for the patient that is why you are there.
December 2014
Personal Support Worker (PSW):
Cons: Hard on my body! Constant injury and pain. Low pay and understaffed.
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