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Personal Care Assistant (PCA) Reviews
What is it like working as a Personal Care Assistant (PCA)?
November 2014
Personal Care Assistant (PCA):
Pros: Working with family who have special needs.
Cons: No paid time off, weekend work, night shifts.
November 2014
Poop.
Personal Care Assistant (PCA):
Pros: I like cleaning poop & havin people abuse me & assault me.
September 2014
I Love Helping.
Personal Care Assistant (PCA):
Pros: What I like most is that I get the chance to help to someone who can't help their self.
Cons: The bad is that I don't get paid vacation and I don't get medical or 401k and I only get paid $7.85 hr when I should get at least $13.00 hr.
September 2014
Unsociable Hours.
Personal Care Assistant (PCA):
Pros: Helping people to get better and return back to their own homes.
Cons: The pay does not fit the job, 10 hour night shifts for the same pay as day hours. The pay is the same across all shifts.
May 2014
Working In Aged Care.
Personal Care Assistant (PCA):
Pros: I love working on the afternoon shift as I find most of the afternoon staff are extremely friendly and work hard, we work well together with little complications,
I love seeing the reactions of residents when I offer them a cuddle, or do little things for them like a hand massage, cut, file or paint their nails or just brush their hair the way they like it.
Our boss is a fair boss and she tends to care about residents and her staff members, which is a great thing and makes it a great place to work at!
Cons: I don't enjoy working the morning shift for the reason that there is a lot of competition amongst staff members on the morning shift, they tend to make you feel incapable, and like to point out little things you might of forgot to do, there is too many people talking over each other,
Because of the tension that is going on with staff the residents suffer because of it. And they feel as if it is their fault!
I would like more time to be able to give residents more one on one attention to do things like massages, paint nails and other personal care things and to listen to their life stories, but because we have so many residents and limited staff (which isn't the establishments fault as it would be too costly for them to hire more staff so we can give each resident more of our time, and it would make residents weekly costs too high for them)
February 2014
Personal Care Assistant (PCA):
They are getting rid of good long term employees for cheap casuals from Papua New Guniea through a govt subsides scheme; HR spend excessively on own offices and perks whilst sacking staff needed at aged care and making remaining staff work for two people yet paid for one. HR knows they do not have to advertise for casuals and do not train the properly so if they mess up they get sacked and replaced quickly. Bullying is massive and the greatest bullies are in HR, so it stinks from the head.
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