Poor training / bullying trainers - Call Handler NHS 24 Employee Review

2.0
2 Mar 2024
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Pros

Decent working environment. Pleasant colleagues on the floor

Cons

The training was appalling and the lead trainer was a bully. Literally on day one, she intimated that training was a pass / fail situation and that failure would result in the trainee being removed from the role (i.e. sacked, which was not made at all clear during the recruitment process). She ruled trainees with fear, shrieking at them for very minor things, like returning to the training room a few minutes early or failing to follow the script verbatim. She was also unprofessional, while the trainees were practicing their scripts, we could hear her on the phone organising her new car. The other trainers were better but there was a lot of inconsistency between what they told the trainees

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3.0
29 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great colleges to work on the variety of shifts

Cons

Shame that TM/management feel that they are better than everyone else yet they do not have a clue what call handlers have to put up with. Shifts can be very close together with late finishes with the dept making them up not having a clue as to how tough the turn around on shifts are as they dont do shifts

2.0
14 Jun 2026
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Pros

Helping people, adequate pay, NHS pension

Cons

Appealing behaviour from managers who do nothing all day and enjoy abusing staff for a laugh. Management seem to have their own group who just enjoy sitting in higher position and enjoy the power on other. Really unhelpful, the HR should do a better job when hiring managers.

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