Great - Community Support Worker Dengarry Professional Services Employee Review

Working with the front line staff was a great experience. They are what make Dengarry's great! They are the heart of the agency. The people receiving services were great! The job is rewarding - the rewards and positive feedback comes from the people served and front line staff.

I really hope things have changed since I've been there but management lacked leadership skills in the areas conflict management and mediation, as well as respecting staff's time off - away from the job. They also had a hard time honoring the calls that on-call staff accepted; There have been times when they took shifts away from on-call staff, to give it back to the FT staff that originally took a holiday/vacation time. But then expected you to sit by the phone when you weren't working a shift; to be available to accept a call - there is no pay incentive to keep us home by the phone on days off; basically, making staff feel like prisoners to the job - you couldn't go hiking in the mountains - god for bid you miss a call for taking care of your mental health/self care - living!!

This is my 28th year at Dengarry Professional Services. Working with adults with developmental disabilities is the most rewarding job. If you can get paid to play baseball, shop with, take individuals golfing etc. How can you go wrong. If you care about quality of life and have compassion this may be the job for you. Attitude is everything, nothing is perfect. Never has been but a positive attitude goes a long way!

It’s shift work but life doesn’t stop at 5 pm 😉