29: ACTIV Employee Reviews

Attuned to focus and centre on customer individual needs care plans and activities, practical, functional duties within their environment. Learn to build rapport with the customersTreat all people with respect and dignity Use your problem-solving skills Seeing customers enjoy life and attempting to do their best at any activity, they try.customers reaching their goals

Pros

Interaction with others and using your your professional skills and appropriate experiences

Cons

this job requires intense patience, and understanding.

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Sad my efforts were not appreciated

Disability Support Worker (Former Employee) - South West WA - 26 September 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?The clients ans sone of the support workersWhat is the most stressful part about working at the company?Management and team leaders. No communication. Constant bullyingWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?Because of the beautiful support workers clients in south west do a lot of activities. We go above and beyond.What is a typical day like for you at the company?Rather not say . Pretty full on 5.30am to 7pm ish

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Good learning and experience

Community Disability Support Worker (Former Employee) - North Metro WA - 12 April 2023

There were alot of challenging times but I learned quiet a lot .The on all systems was very demanding but well remunerated Incident reporting and investigation process was very demanding and took up so much time Rostering was good at most times and very coherent Enjoyed get together and end of year parties graduation and annual balls The SIL homes where very demanding

Pros

On-site training

Cons

Long hours poor work life balance

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Learning opportunities

Disability Support Worker osw and days. (Former Employee) - Australind WA - 28 June 2022

I learnt alot from activ. Achieving tasks I never thought possible. I did push myself to be the best I could be and did see the rewards. If you work hard yourself and show that your interested you will be tested. Embrace it and see the results. You may surprise yourself.

Pros

The relationships you can make.

Cons

Knowing when to take the time for yourself and finding the balance.

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Poorly managed.

Supervisor/Team Leader (Former Employee) - Bunbury WA - 12 February 2021

They struggle with finding and keeping quality staff hence the turn over. The pay is the bare minimum wage. I was a supervisor and the pay considering my responsibility was an absolute disgrace

Pros

Nothing

Cons

Management. Pay

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lots of red tape and under qualified staff do yourself a favour look elsewhere if you want to work in disabilities and actually care

Disability support worker osw (Former Employee) - Bunbury WA - 3 February 2021

i worked here for over 2 years then get the sack for defending myself not a company that i would recommend unless you like to be a whistle blower and not have a opinion some great people but a lot of chest pounders.

Pros

get to meet lots of different people

Cons

un professional management not all

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Fun and excellent workplace culture

Support Worker (Current Employee) - Albany WA - 18 August 2020

Conducive working environment that sharpens and ehances your skillset. Very professional and approachable team leaders. Quick resolution to staff problems and queries.

Pros

Free training

Cons

Nil

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Great to work at

LABOURER (Former Employee) - Bunbury WA - 15 July 2020

Great to work at with community and great with the special needs people. They have great mangers. All the has a go at everything in wood workshop and property care

Pros

Not stressful

Cons

Get teamwork

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productive

Disability Support Worker (Former Employee) - Western Australia - 15 June 2020

Interviews and training is on going. They just need well trained individuals who are understanding in the managerial role. They need avoid favoritism when it comes to treating conflicts amongst colleagues.

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Interesting and fulfiling role

RTO Training Coordinator/Administrator (Former Employee) - Head Office Perth - 23 March 2020

Busy working space in a multi-tasking environment. Customer services and relations skills. Speaking in public. Organisational skills and time management. Good management team required and strong planning in place to support the role in Learning and Development. Teamwork and dedication for what you do required.Resources and experienced staff essential to meet customer requirements. Good Training programmes and support for the clients in their studies. Workload and time management difficult due to inadequate team numbers available to support Learning & Development staff. Meeting the Clients and Staff and seeing them succeed in their learning development.

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Business Analyst/ UAT Test Lead (Former Employee) - Wembley WA - 5 February 2020

I worked on a very challenging project implementing two systems a customer management system & a rostering system. We had a difficult time dealing with 2 external vendors that were both located interstate.

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Dealing with people.

Bus Driver (Former Employee) - South of the River. - 26 November 2019

Typical Day - driving a bus, Learned - life is difficult everywhere, Management - some times management does not know everything. Workplace - pretend you know everything, but actually you don't. Hardest part of job - Informing on people who have done wrong, even though they deserved it. Most enjoyable part of the job, Christmas parties.

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Great working relationships with management, staff, clients and services

Disabilities Support Worker (Former Employee) - Esperance WA - 28 April 2019

New skills, experience and training opportunities. Great management and fellow staff members. The clients and their families, great to work with and alongside them and advocating for them

Pros

Training, different work places, creating opportunities with them

Cons

Not enough time allocated to finish life changing projects

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Employees

Support Worker (Former Employee) - Perth WA - 19 October 2018

Such a high turn over of staff and coordinators. Employees who do most of the work get left behind and sometimes so do the clients. Its very sad how you are left to exist with no contact. the company doesnt offer any variety to those who want to exceed in their career. when clients go away you are left stranded with no work. I've had nothing but a bad experience Working for Activ the last 3 years. Activ is one of the worst companies i've ever worked for.. At the end of the day its all about money and what they want. You get left behind. Employers don't care, so why should you.

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Bad place to be at when capable of doing other jobs

Employee (Former Employee) - Rockingham WA - 21 August 2018

Never really liked it here as they have underpaid us and never spoke to the employees about their behaviour towards others.The management here just isn't right as they are not strict enough on employees and the way they have been treated.

Pros

Free lunches on occasions

Cons

Low wages

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Productive

Support worker (Current Employee) - Bunbury WA - 19 August 2018

Activ is great when you first start, they would give you anywhere from 30 to 70 hours a fortnight. Once you have been there for more the 7 months they cut your hours down if you arn't a permanent, to 0 to 20 hours a fortnight.

Pros

Meeting new People

Cons

Not getting enough hours

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Working with clients

Trainee Support Worker (Former Employee) - Bunbury WA - 2 April 2018

working with the clients has given me insight to how they like to be treated towards and with activs help they have gotten the clients to achieve their long life dreams as well as daily activities within the house and out in the community

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Very community minded culture

SUPERVISOR, Alternative to Employment (Former Employee) - Jolimont WA - 9 January 2018

Great company to work for and with. Met so many great caring professionals. Easy to have a laugh once deadlines are met. Encouraged to apply for internal promotions.

Pros

Caring Organisation

Cons

Can be long hours at peak times

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good work place

Residential Aide (Former Employee) - Albany WA - 6 August 2017

I started as 8.30 am and finished at 6.30pm, it was good working with people with disabilities and I learned alot from my experences in doing that, I learned how to management with people with disabilities.

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fun working place

Part time (Current Employee) - Perth WA - 24 July 2016

it is a great place to work it like a big family that are always out going and grat to be around and i love volenteering thier because of the atmosphere

Pros

voulenteering hours, resonable hours

Cons

non paid because vlonenteering

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Client focused, employees forgotton

Officer (Former Employee) - Wembley WA - 27 June 2016

Worked in Finance/Payroll/HR division. Totally unrealistic expectations placed on employees in this division. Young career driven managers who have little to no respect for individuals with different career aspects or family values. Work load for individuals is unrealistic, so many good staff have left and they don't seem to care, it's like rotating staff and squeezing them until they leave, shame as there are some wonderful employees there. Promotions are given to friends and interesting job titles as well especially for those who do not have the education to back up their job title. The wage is below standard and they use the salary sacrifice to boost it up so it is not a bonus its just to bring you up to a standard. Offices are nice and clean. Other departments are nice and by all means my review doesn't reflect on how these departments are run.