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What is the best part of working at the company?
Working alongside the young people whilst the discover who they are. Supporting them with their behaviours so that they can have healthy relationships with those in their worlds

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Undertrained staff who inevitably continue the cycle of abuse against these children.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It’s not a healthy environment to work in, the support structures are designed to protect the service and not the clients or staff

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Walking into a shift it really depends who you are. Are you happy to see the you g people, excited by the possibilities or are you feeling like they are a burden and deserve what they get. You choose your own adventure there the young people will respond to either

What is the best part of working at the company?
There actually is no best part of working for Berry Street

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Poor Management, toxic staff, being micro managed 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is very toxic. You have to fit in to a particular group of people to fit in. For what Berry Street do as an organisation I was very surprised at how staff were treated.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I loved doing the actual work but unfortunately the working environment made it a really unpleasant place to be.

Initially I had a supervisor who was a complete bully. She brought me to tears more than once. I did approach her about it. She then ran to HR and provided a very different version of events regarding her behaviour toward me. When I finally got a new supervisor she was great but the job was very high stress with minimal reward. If we worked overtime doing admin after attending a crisis we didn't get TIL for it or overtime. Most of our team worked weekends and weekend nights just to keep up. No recognition from management. Horrible experience.

I am so grateful for my time at Berry Street. Staff welcomed me in and I was lucky enough to have regular training to continue to expand my knowledge base and practice skills. 

The hardest part of the job was dealing with crisis. This, however, didn't occur to often and the training provided me with the tools to work in these conditions. Additionally, I felt extremely supported by the staff and managers and always felt I could express any concerns.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Teamwork, collaboration and staff support 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Behaviour concerns exhibited by the young people such as assault on the carers.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
The days are not the same. There are times when you become very stressful due to the young people‘s challenging behaviours but there days when they young people are well in their headspace.

One of the best opportunities to learn and grow in a challenging environment. Every junior HR and management practices, poor hiring and staff management sadly trickles down to limiting impact with young people. 

If you are driven and thick skinned and can embrace a times terrible equality than give it a roll. 

Thankful for the opportunity but happy to move forward 

The kids you work with are amazing! 90% of your co -workers are great. Down side is you are constantly competing for shifts with other casuals, a lot of pressure to take night shifts which are hard when it’s on/off shifts. It can also be stressful and demanding, with little training which is concerning when you are responsible for the care of vulnerable children 

A great place to work, very client focused and professional.  Great supports and supervision as often challenging work.  I only left due to medical reason.  Would love to work there again.

Look elsewhere unless you enjoy being battered and bruised and leave with your confidence and self esteem destroyed. Staff and management been there too long- complacent, form cliques and not helpful to new employees

This was an amazing job and something g I am definitely looking back at getting into in the future. The challenges that the children threw at us was amazing the work never runs out.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Home care worker 27 salaries reported	$40.44 per hour
Case manager 11 salaries reported	$99,500 per year
Clinician 17 salaries reported	$103,176 per year
Family medicine physician 13 salaries reported	$106,615 per year
Classroom teacher 4 salaries reported	$99,500 per year

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