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The management is horrible, the workers are horrible and won't help clients link in with services. 
Understaffed.
One worker was chasing the receptionist around the office and yelling at her until the receptionist was in tears and was snapping at her. The same worker was gas lighting other staff and bullying. 
The same worker was trying to get a young Indigenous woman to remove that she was Indigenous off her resume and told her it was highlighting her disadvantage.
The same worker was writing court letters on behalf of other staff without permission and not referring a homeless client to relevant crisis services and made them wait a whole weekend to get assistance with homelessness.
Management talks about staffs personal problems with other staff and brings up conflict and puts down employees in front of staff.
Conflict resolution is just talking about other staff and there are no consequences for bullying and the management will talk negatively about other managers. When you make a complaint about office culture the management just says they disagree. MADEC also cares more about statistics as a whole rather then health and safety when the state government says if you can work from home you have to and the work cars are often unregistered and employees are often hungover when they turn up to work.

DO NOT WORK FOR THIS BUSINESS. The business is full of gossips and rumour mills. Management at all levels listen to negative gossip about people and everyone knows everyone else's business. This even extends to offices (including head office in Mildura) gossiping and making negative, derogatory comments about coworkers in other states! Managers from Ops to Admin do very little whilst they dial their workers on Teams who work from home to gossip so they look like they're working. MADEC will offer numerous incentives such as FLEXIBILITY, WORK LIFE BALANCE and ABOVE STANDARD PAY but there's nothing flexible about them and you better be ready to live there and be on call 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. When something does happen that you need support with, nobody will pick up the phone despite promises they will.

Great people and a great boss. I enjoyed talking to the eclectic people from around the world, visitors to Australia, that need places to work.  It was a great feeling when I was able to help them. I spoke not only tourists , but farm owners. It was great to be able to join them up with the workers they needed.

Very toxic environment with poor organisational behaviour. IWS has no protection legislation in place for workers. Manager not available it was isolating with no support or direction, apparently the worker before me had the same issue and resigned also. 

Used to belong as we were in a situation of starting up another service, but as more staff came on got lots better.
Learnt about lots of different conditions with hands-on care, and doing roosters and lots of fill-in shifts.

The job was a physical job but it taught me to work in a fast pace environment, the hardest part of the job was the first couple of days when i was learning about the job. the best part of the job is it wasn't by a machine, you worked at your own pace so long as you meet the daily goals.

Training computer suite to people with disabilities, you learn new things every day.  Their behaviours can change any time but they are lovely people to work with as long as you know how to effectively change their routine.

MADEC although supposedly not for profit are in fact totally focused on the bottom line and do not value their staff at all and have little interest in the students future.  Get them in, get them out.  Not for the dedicated teacher.

Low pay. Nepotism. Management obsessed with monitoring staff. Staff frightened to speak up at meetings. Clients frightened and depressed.  Millions being wasted.

Fantastic people (support workers and office staff), calm atmosphere, just one AMAZING COMPANY. 
I have the best time working at MADEC. I am only leaving as I am relocating. If or when I return I will reapply with MADEC

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Support worker 6 salaries reported	$63.44 per hour
Regional manager 5 salaries reported	$100,000 per year
Youth worker 4 salaries reported	$77.91 per hour
Liaison 1 salary reported	$38.21 per hour
Trainer 3 salaries reported	$67,534 per year

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