Scottish Environment Protection Agency Reviews

The SEPA contact centre (SCC) is at the bottom of the pecking order. It is understaffed, overworked and under pressure. If a department in SEPA wants to off load work it comes to the SCC. Even though there isn’t enough staff to support the workloads. SCC accepts it as they are people pleasers. Pity they don’t like pleasing their own staff. Senior management all turn a blind eye to the problems in SCC. They choose to sweep everything under the carpet. They reward bullies by putting incapable management on special projects. There is no availability for annual leave, work shadowing or training courses. Some hints and tips on how to be a successful candidate. 1. Be a bully and you’ll be rewarded. 2. Have expert knowledge on how to intimidate colleagues. 3. Be an expert working in an low morale and low team morale environment. 4. Be able to work independently don’t expect support from management. However do something wrong and you’ll be rewarded by being ‘pulled up’ in-front of everyone.

Majority of people start in there as a fixed term employee with the hope that they are taken on permanently. They play fast and loose with employment law where fixed term people are let go after 3 years 11 months after successive extensions, only for their role to be advertised a few weeks later for a new fixed term contract. This is so they don't have to make the employee permanent. Agency Management Team are completely detached from the people doing the work and gladly take credit for other people's work, to then throw them under the bus when their department is facing budget cuts. Whole place suffers from cronyism and new CEO has surrounded himself with Agency Management Team with a vested agenda of getting direct access to funding rather than go through projects and proper budget controls.