VHA HOME HEALTHCARE
VHA HOME HEALTHCARE Employee Reviews
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Great place to work
Personal Support Worker (Current Employee) – Toronto, ON – 11 January 2019
VHA Home Healthcare is a great healthcare organization to work with. The wages are pretty good and if you are willing to work, you will get full-time hours. The benefits packages are fairly reasonable. and most of the staff at VHA are great to work with. I especially love that the company is big on further education.
Pros
wages, great co-workers, great hours, further education
Cons
some times hard to get a hold of in office staff
different experiences
Personal Support Worker (Former Employee) – Toronto, ON – 15 January 2019
loved going from home to home meeting all kinds of different people with ll kinds of different needs for care. nice having a time inbetween clients to kind of regroup.
Pros
experience
Cons
hours
good place
Home Support Worker (Former Employee) – Toronto, ON – 19 December 2018
Assist clients with personal care and daily tasks.
Perform household duties such as laundry, cleaning and grocery shopping.
Promote health and safety of client.
Plan and prepare nutritious meals.
Ensure safety and security of the home that of the clients.
Perform household duties such as laundry, cleaning and grocery shopping.
Promote health and safety of client.
Plan and prepare nutritious meals.
Ensure safety and security of the home that of the clients.
Love team work
Personal support worker(psw) (Former Employee) – Ottawa, ON – 16 November 2018
I like teamwork, I'm not afraid of challenges, I'm always motivated because I love my job sometimes yes it has more difficult moments but with the good communication I always ended up overcoming the difficulty related to my job.
bad
Personal Support Worker (Current Employee) – Toronto, ON – 2 November 2018
I work 20 years and they drop me, they give me 2 or 3 hours a day and so many gaps between one case to another, no respected my seniority, workers will deal with a new coordinator every day because they keep quitting.
Work/Life Balance
Palliative visiting RPN (Current Employee) – Durham Region, ON – 1 November 2018
Very good place to work when you have young kids, sometimes it can be stressful balancing between the two but with a great team lots of support given and time off given. Working hours up and down but it’s good to have that break in between to breath a little and get a fresh start with new clients. Great being part of One on one care with clients and families at their end stage.
Temporary Project-based job
Consultant/Project Manager (Former Employee) – Chatham-Kent, ON – 15 June 2018
I enjoyed my three months working with VHA, as the work I was called to do was interesting and challenging, and the VHA staff I worked with were supportive of my role and appreciative of the skills I brought to my assignment.
Like Hicking, Soccer,Swiming,Playing Cards, Backgammon & Chess
Registered Physiotherapist (Current Employee) – York Region – 14 June 2018
Case load depends on season and conditions. Its great learning and dealing with different clients. It involves traveling and must put extra time to manage.
Great workplace
PSW (Former Employee) – Toronto, ON – 3 May 2018
Amazing workplace. My problem was commute, due to the fact that I don't drive. Sometimes you travel an hour to work for half an hour and then up and leave again.
Pros
great benefits
Cons
travel was hard without a vehicle
Productive and active place of work
RN (Current Employee) – Toronto, ON – 4 February 2018
VHA Home Healthcare is an active and productive place to work because it gives you the opportunity for flexibility and one on one patient care with families.
Pros
Flexibility
Cons
hours not secured
Great company but fast paced and stressful job
Health Services Scheduling Coordinator (Current Employee) – Toronto, ON – 11 January 2018
Very happy to be a part of the VHA team. It can be very rewarding but also very stressful and challenging at times. Never a dull moment, always busy which makes the day fly by. However, expect to work overtime to get all your work done. Both pros and cons with statutory holidays, the company is open 365 so prepare to work on holidays if you're part time and new. But the pay and benefits and other perks of the job are better than expected. There's a lot of changes that still need to be made to make the job more efficient for all staff but I'm excited to see what the future holds.
Pros
Good pay and benefits, nice work environment
Cons
Working holidays, long hours, no parking
great opportunity to help people
Full-time/Part-time (Current Employee) – Durham Region, ON – 9 January 2018
loved being able to help people, very frustrating not knowing your schedule in advance, poor communication between staff and office/management. hard when a client passes away as you do get very attached to them. They become like family. Very rewarding job.
Very long hours and clients far in between. Too much time spent travelling.
PSW (Current Employee) – Toronto, ON – 25 November 2017
I dislike very much working with VHA. Your availability has to be atleast 16-18 hours for you to work 8 hours. They send you all over the place even outside of your area. The clients most of them wants a housekeeper not a PSW. They ask you to vacuum their rugs, wash their bathroom, sweep and mop their floors, empty their garbage and wash their dishes etc. The coordinators are very dis-organized about scheduling. You have to be constantly checking your phone for updates while doing all that travelling in between clients. You don’t get enough travel time in between clients when you have to take the bus and train. I would not recommend this job to someone who doesn’t drive.
Official response from VHA HOME HEALTHCARE
15 December 2017
Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear your experience was less than ideal. At the moment we are working very hard to improve scheduling and location issues by implementing new technology that will help to optimize PSW schedules and reduce travel time—a struggle for everyone in the home care industry. We expect this new system will reduce some of the scheduling challenges for both PSWs and Co-ordinators. As for your insights about PSW duties—part (though not all) of a PSW’s role is to do some light household duties in addition to personal care. These duties have actually been shown in studies to be critically important in helping seniors and those who are ill or disabled remain in their homes.
productive and fun to work
Personal Support Worker (Current Employee) – Toronto, ON – 16 November 2017
VHA Is a very great company that offers its employees great opportunities. the hardest part is when you dont get enough shift, besides that the supervisory team is awesome and great attitude
Productive
Personal Support Worker (Former Employee) – Toronto, ON – 27 October 2017
Jobs at VHA Home Healthcare are flexible. One have the opportunity to work one-on-one with the clients you are supporting. Each time you have a new clients with specialized care you get on the job training for that particular client.
Pros
VHA Home Healthcare is unionlized
Cons
Long hours
Stressful and overworked
Service Coordinator (Current Employee) – Toronto, ON – 14 September 2017
There is no work life balance. Your over worked and under paid and have to do overtime 3 to 4 times a week. They say they are trying to fix that but seems highly unlikely. Very stressful enviroment and because of this there is a high turnover.
Cons
Long hours stressful highpace and demanding.
enriching
Client Services Worker (Current Employee) – Toronto, ON – 4 September 2017
i attend the office essentially for meetings and to pick up equipments for my vocation which takes up on site in the community. The visit to the office is always exciting due to the staff there. They are welcoming and helpful.
We would very much like to speak with you and resolve your concerns regarding your work schedule. Please email humanresources@vha.ca so that we can continue this conversation offline.
Regards,
Kelley Myers, VP Human Resources and Organizational Development