Sunrise Senior Living Employer Reviews

Best place and staff members that you can trust to put your parents to spend the last days of their lives.

Although I love my co-workers and the residents, I have experienced and endured insult, degradation, verbal abuse and total disrespect from employees, team members, residents, and leaders. There is no support from the leaders and corporate management is unaware and unwilling to understand the issues. I have been treated better, trained better, have – more... had better benefits and better hours at all of my other management positions over the past 20+ years. The turnover is very high and employees are being burnt out trying to make up the difference. I hope this is an isolated problem in the industry or the poor seniors and those that take care of them aren’t going to be very happy. – less

Worked many years at this company excelled in at different job descriptions..

Assisting residents with ADLs is the majority of your job. But care managers (CNA's) are also expected to do activities for the residents, serve meals, wash dishes, put away dishes, fill in open shifts for the week. Management when I was there had very low morale, had significant turnovers, and expected other people to do their job for them. Sunrise – more... is a good place to meet some great coworkers, enjoy time with most of the residents, but management is always watching you. – less

I was a Life Enrichment Manager at Sunrise Senior Living. I worked with 30 residents afflicted with Alzheimer's. I did one-on-ones with each of them in their room, took each one outside to walk around the courtyard, or involved each one in an activity suited to their ability to understand. I learned that each resident was in a different level of Alzheimer's – more... and I had to adapt myself to doing one-on-ones. They enjoyed talking about themselves when they were growing up and about their families. This brought back good memories for each of them. I tried to draw them out of their rooms into a social setting such as activities that were provided in that area. I worked on their life skills such as bottoning a blouse/shirt, zipping up pants, how to hold their fork when eating, helped them with their grooming such as combing their hair and brushing their teeth. Management at that time was very good. My co-workers were very nice. The hardest part about the job is that sometimes I would expect more out of each resident, but then had to realize that these are people who can't help themselves and I am there to help direct them. The most enjoyable part of my job was knowing that they were making progress each day. I could definitely see a difference in them. – less

I begin my work day by coming onto my shift and account for all my residents safety and location. I then proceed to start my daily tasks in my job which include getting residents up dressed showered and ready for the day. There is a lot of teamwork involved on my work shift . I'm the lead on 1st shift and I work with the alzheimer residents . I enjoy – more... my job to the fullest . – less

Really enjoy interacting with the residents and hearing stories about their lives

i've been told they are the only one's who operate the way they do so i would just avoid this location there are plenty around.
Sunrise has great values this place doesnt uphold to them and they will tell you when hired "they do things a little different" but they wont go into detail

Diffrent is
Changing your schedule daily and most of the time without – more... notice so dont plan a life
cutting your hours and giving you unworkable shifts
starting you with minimum pay if you dont fight for it or even if you do goodluck making more than ten dollars
they do no investigation behind write ups that come from word of mouth
they dont accmodate you as an employee at all

They do care for their residents well and try hard to make sure they have quality of life. Even if that means them shortchanging you
they have a high turn over rate for employees because they dont respect any hourly paid employee

management sucks so just go to any other sunrise i've heard nothing but great news about the others even from people who were transferred from others to this one (because of where they live) – less

All they care about is looking good !!!!!make sure you know what each resident has before you take care of them because they might never tell you!!!! youre a slave trust me work at a mall 9.00hr you can't even take care of yourself.

My work day is pleasant and quite,i have learned how some of the other departments are different.management is okay,my co-workers are very nice and friendly.The part of the job that I don't like is that is to far out west and they don't pay enough for all the work you do.i like working in the laundry the most.

great place to work at, pay isnt great even with cna certificate, very disorganized, coworkers are great but a lot of drama between them overall descent place to work at

Great being able to help/assist seniors in their daily activities.

The most enjoyable part of this job is share of experiences. I learned a lot with elderly because they are very smart, give me advices when i faced a situation that they went through before me.
One day, a patient lost control and shouted on me without reason but i learned during my training for certificate HHA how to deal with such of cases.

Busy on a typical workday. Learn to be honest and work as a team to fullfill the resident's needs. Management is great. Co-workers are also great. I enjoy my job. So i do not really have any hardest part.

typical day is to provide personal care for 34 dementia residents and then provide stimulation for them

I loved working at Sunrise for lots of reasons. The comradery that I experienced with my co-workers was exceptional. The fullfilment of helping others is what kept me there for so long. It is a job where you do need full support from your management and peers. At times, that would become difficult but would work itself out. Overall, a great place to – more... grow individually and to really help others. – less

I started as a care manager and worked my way up, I was awarded the employee of the month in the first month of work. I really enjoyed my work and really enjoyed building relationships with the residents whom lived there.
I later on was promoted to the Assisted Living Coordinator and then to Reminiscence Coordinator.

I was able to take the lead when – more... we had no managers in the house, I really enjoyed training the employee's, and learned some very valuable experiences. – less

I am able to lead my team through sunrise vision and values, coaching for success, control quality of services provided to our residents, decision making, planning and organizing, effective communicator. I always get along with my team member.The hardest duty is to solve the conflict between co-workers. The enjoyable part of the job is to work together – more... as a strong team workers and accomplish our goals in litle time. – less

I have worked in many places, and Sunrise was by far the best enviorment!

I loved working there with the residents and my coworkers. I did not like the management and how they treated their employees. My coworkers were excellent and my boss was a good man. I learned a lot about myself during my time there because I was asked to lead when we were short staff which was something I never did before. I was upset when I was let – more... go because it had nothing to do with my performance or attitude. The building was sold to another company and they decided to let a bunch of good workers go and keep a lot of bad managers and directors. – less