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Fast pasted work environment.
CLINICAL OFFICE ASSISTANT (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 29 April 2022
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The most useful review selected by IndeedGood co workers but bad management. Pay is low for the amount of stress you work under. Must be able to multi task. Always working short staffed. Benefits could be better.
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Booking Clerk
Booking Clerk (Current Employee) - VGH - 24 April 2022
Good work environment but low pay. Good benefits and vacation. Hoping once they negotiate a new contract for us, the wages will increase. Benefits are fantastic and you accrue vacation and sick days.
Pros
Benefits and vacation
Cons
low wage
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Insights into Vancouver Coastal Health
What people like
- Ability to learn new things
- Ability to meet personal goals
- Clear sense of purpose
Areas for improvement
- Support from manager
- Inclusive work environment
- Trust in colleagues
Lots of opportunities for continued education from the Union. Great extended health benefits.
Speech Language Pathologist (Current Employee) - vancouver, BC - 21 April 2022
Required to be at work for more than 8 hours, but paid for 7.5 hours. Management is great and always approachable. Staff very supportive of each other.
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Vancouver Coastal Health Authority does not value its employees
MW5 Technician (Former Employee) - George Pearson Centre - 8 April 2022
My overall experience working for the company for over 20 years, the pay is OK for my job position but not high enough to be inline with inflation. The medical, dental and extended benefits are excellent. They do have a Municipal Pension Plan and new employees start out on 18 days vacation. As for stress, it depends on which worksite you work at and which job an employee is doing. I personally did not feel valued as an employee by the organization. The organization has a punitive approach towards dealing with issues. It’s a union company but they have jobs that are union and out of contract which is non union.
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Fun friendly staff and residence
Health Care Aide (Current Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 6 January 2022
I have work in 3 facility and by far VCh is the best place to work. Staff are friendly and helpful. I am always happy to be at work and I like how the manager managing and reminding staff to be careful during this time.
Pros
Staff and residence are friendly
Cons
Long drive for me and hard to fine parking
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Had a great time working there too many managers
Health Care Worker (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 4 October 2021
Good fair pay. Too many Managers changing schedules or asking you too spy on fellow workers and report back. Nurses and co workers are great. If you can handle 12 hour shifts this is a good place to work.
Pros
Decent pay, great team work, everyday is differant
Cons
Too many managers
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Disastrous !
Program Assistant (Current Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 27 June 2021
Working at VCH as a temporary hire is a real eye-opener. One would have never thought how chaotic and poorly managed this organization is; scheduling, payroll, work duties, training. Everything is a complete mess. Work duties, work hours, work schedule, work locations keep changing, the only thing that remains unchanged is your wage rate. On the upside, it does motivate you to find a "real job".
Pros
nothing
Cons
long hours, no benefits, low wage, hostile work-environment
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Terrible management and educators
Registered Nurse (Current Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 22 April 2021
Managers don't care about how badly the budget cuts effect their employees. Since I started, they have added many more responsibilities on to my job role without appreciation or compensation. Their attitude towards employees is that we are disposable and that we are expected to comply without having any say in what is an appropriate and reasonable amount of work. Many people end up with injuries because there is not enough time to do things properly. Everything is rushed to try and finish the work that multiple people should be handling.
Pros
job security
Cons
extremely stressful
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Its okay
Clerk (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 8 September 2020
Management was not great and didn't give you the support needed. If you had an issue with something, they wouldn't even be listening to your problems. Also, most management are friends and will do everything possible to stab you in the back
Pros
Medical benefits
Cons
No support needed, short staffed
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fun workplace.... great coworkers
Staffing Clerk (Current Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 25 August 2020
it's a great place to work and make friends... management supports you. There is training provided.... and you have the support of your co-workers well. we are Unionized... our benefits and wages are pretty good
Pros
allowed to currently work from home
Cons
6am starts take some getting used to.. in the winter... parking is expensive
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Good but could have been better
Community Support Worker (Former Employee) - Richmond, BC - 2 May 2020
Good but could have been better. Not enough hours. But they keep hiring. No benefits until you're regular but goodluck getting that regular job. Im just there for the money I guess. I need to survive.
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Great workplace environment & culture
Mental Health Program Assistant, Secretary 3 (Current Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 27 February 2020
Have worked at multiple locations within Vancouver Community teams (Mental Health and Substance Use [both Adult and Child & Youth], palliative care). The culture is similar between all and very warm, welcoming coworkers and management at all. Benefits package is decent. Overall a good place to work!
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Fast Paced
RN (Current Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 10 February 2020
Great benefits & pay, but you pay for it with your mental health. So many burned out staff; unable to give quality care with the workload, but still is expected of us. Stressful environment, managers not supportive, very punitive. To succeed, you need to be highly organized, super efficient, really caring, assertive, able to handle high degree of stress, high cognitive function
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Very Professional and fair
Full-Time Visual Fields Technician (Current Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 19 January 2020
Very Professional and fair. I have had nothing but a positive experience working for Vancouver Coastal Health. I will continue to offer the high standard care.
Lana Obrigavitch
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Requires individuals who are willing to put in the effort.
Clerk (Current Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 28 December 2019
It's hard to get your initial job with VCH, but once you do, there is lots of room to grow and for internal transfers so that you can find a job that is the best fit for your interests and skill set. Unfortunately, job security can be double edged in that some of your co-workers and manager may be out paced by their current role and responsibilities, and are not meeting the challenge as well as some others might.
It's unfortunate that despite the innovation that occurs, many of my coworkers are burnt out and jaded working for the health authority, but the money and benefits are good so they are reluctant to give up their position.
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Good place to work. Heavy workload!
Clinical Social Worker (Former Employee) - GF Strong Rehab Vancouver BC - 29 November 2019
Wonderful team, lots of support. Workload can become extremely heavy ...as with all health authorities so not unique to VCH
Lots of opportunities to trial other areas or programs
Great benefits and vacation. Salary doesn’t keep up with cost of living in Vancouver!
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Workload is too much to handle , at times
Radiology Support Aide (Current Employee) - Surrey, BC , Vancouver BC - 31 October 2019
Too much work, demanding
Staff cooperative, still tiring at the end of each shift.
Work environment is good
Benefits are good
At times ,less staff to handle patient volume.
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good team support and benefits
Medical Secretary/Booking Clerk (Current Employee) - Vancouver General Hospital - 5 October 2019
busy environment, day goes by fast, with multitask abilities is highly recommended,
Great team support and supervisor support.
Stable job security
Great benefits
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Good work spce and good environment
Care Aide (Current Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 4 October 2019
Working in vch is a good place to work and right place to work. Had a good benifits. The facility that i worked right now is a bit far from my home base but so far i like my facility.
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Mixed Bag
Business and Contract Management Analyst (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 6 August 2019
Public sector so very little in the way of compensation. Unless it is a union position it is a precarious environment. Middle management heavy with a culture of do as little as possible and never take a risk.
Pros
Good work / life balance
Cons
Lots of dead end positions
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Great opportunities and interesting projects
Manager (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 5 June 2019
Interesting projects and great benefits. Opportunities for growth with new projects. Only downside is the salary freezes that are sometimes implemented.
Pros
Benefits
Cons
Salary limits
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