33: Villa Maria Catholic Homes Employee Reviews

I love to work there but too many bosses. I love to serve old people but I didn’t see anything like this. HR department is shocking. I am stillGetting email after leaving job even I emailed them. Too much politicalix..

Pros

Cons

Was this review helpful?

Nope!

Home Care Worker (Current Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 4 May 2023

Not appreciated for all the hard work you put in, emails ignored, only a number in the industry and residents sick and tired of getting stuffed around .. no caregiver .. no help .. yet they are not notified of any changes. I left and found work elsewhere.. thank goodness

Was this review helpful?

Jobs at Villa Maria Catholic Homes

See more jobs

Homecare Support Worker - Aged Care

Bayswater VIC

30+ days ago

Homecare Support Worker - Western Suburbs

Homecare Support Worker -Benalla

Benalla VIC

30+ days ago

Homecare Support Worker - Aged Care

Hawthorn VIC

30+ days ago

Worked in Laundry

Essential services worker in aged care (Former Employee) - Sunshine VIC - 30 April 2023

folding linen and clothes for delivery to client's room's. On job training and fun to work there. You learn Manual handling, fire training and infection control.

Pros

free food.

Cons

on your feet all day.

Was this review helpful?

Okay place to work

Community Support Worker (Current Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 20 January 2023

Communication needs improvement, expect to work non stop! Pay isn’t great, hours change all the time, client’s are usually great though. No induction

Pros

Clients

Cons

Paid is not great and hours change all the time. No real support.

Was this review helpful?

Good

Een (Current Employee) - Ashwood VIC - 1 December 2022

Good place to work friendly people good environment. Supportive staff and community, would send someone I know here. No complaints with anything in the place

Was this review helpful?

It is worth working with villa Maria catholic homes

Personal Care Assistant (Current Employee) - Wantirna South VIC - 11 November 2022

It is worth switching to villa Maria catholic homes from private organizations they're not the best options anymore in today's world. Villa Maria catholic homes is one of the good work place I found.

Was this review helpful?

Unsafe workplace when there’s a pandemic.

Community Support Worker (Former Employee) - Gippsland VIC - 22 January 2022

Failure to comply with protocols and procedures when there’s a pandemic.Failure to keep support workers safe.Failure to reimburse in full of PPE that you failed to supply.Failure to acknowledge travel distance for regional workers.

Was this review helpful?

Short term but rewarding

Payroll Transformation Lead (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 12 September 2021

Short term contracting but rewarding. Great team environment. Challenging Project . Great Management Support whilst on board willing to drive change. Great office location.

Pros

Remuneration, Culture . Leadership

Was this review helpful?

Great work frends

Rehabilitation and support worker (Current Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 11 January 2021

One cannot hve input on a resident, its managements way or the HIGHWAY, you are made to feel little by particilar RNS, then when you address the situation, there is always an eccuse..love my job hate management

Pros

Great RSW

Cons

Management are horrible

Was this review helpful?

Sometimes fun

Support Worker (Former Employee) - Berwick VIC - 10 January 2021

My typical day at work was very stressful I can’t fault everything while working for VMCH I had some good memories, I did learn a lot a specialy in first few years then lots of changes in management, didn’t feel appreciate it at all except my clients and their family they gave me lots of support and for that I thank all the clients and their family at VMCH

Cons

Long hrs

Was this review helpful?

Rate your recent company

Share your experience to help others

Great team where you have opportunities to make a difference to people's lives.

Marketing (Current Employee) - East Melbourne VIC - 24 August 2020

The culture is fun and fast paced. The work is meaningful by supporting people with disabilities and older people live the life they choose. The leadership of the CEO - especially through COVID has been excellent.

Was this review helpful?

dedicated Team members

Disability Support Worker (Former Employee) - Lilydale VIC - 27 November 2019

Rarely any social staff time with Team. Working autonomously a lot of the time or with one other worker under difficult circumstances or with children with complex needs and behaviours.

Pros

collaborative Team workers.

Cons

no set meal breaks, only meals eaten when possible.

Was this review helpful?

Mangement need to support staff

Nurse (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 27 November 2019

It's a good place to work excellent education and postive staff mangement need to support staff mote and if mistakes are made take the time to talk to staff and not to blame. Should have a no blame policy.

Was this review helpful?

I am happy to work with VMCH

Personal Care Assistant (Current Employee) - Ballarat VIC - 29 October 2019

I am a casual employee I currently have only one client who requires support four hours per week. I would like to have more shifts. I enjoy working with my client. She and I have a great relationship and I hope we continue together.

Was this review helpful?

Busy ever changing environment

Disability Support Worker (Current Employee) - Kew VIC - 28 October 2019

I have worked for VMCH for many years and found the organisation good to work for with many roles available and good advancement. The merge and changes to management were difficult however, they have settled and business is starting to run smoothly.

Was this review helpful?

Over all a very interesting experience

Volunteer Worker (Former Employee) - Balwyn VIC - 30 April 2019

Meet and greet residents of Villa Maria home. Ask them they would like to do for the day. Assist them with activity. Give them general company for the day. Ask them if there is anything they need me to look into for them.

Pros

Dealing with people

Cons

No employment to be made only volunteer position.

Was this review helpful?

Busy and lots of changes

Administration Officer (Current Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 5 October 2018

Due to implementation of Federal changes lots of changes and movement. Slowly growing and implementing new systems to assist with change and allocating new supports to ease backlogs.

Pros

Helping people

Cons

constant change

Was this review helpful?

Activities for the people with disability

Disability Support Worker (Current Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 29 April 2018

I work in a day program in villa maria.This program includes activities for the clients with disability to encourage them to develope their skills in those activities,like swimming,music,yoga,listening stories,interactive interactions,music and movements etc.It is very interesting to interact with innocent people and enjoyable too.We have to be very careful about their health matters like epilepsy management.It is very enjoyable to make them happy when they do beautiful craft works.

Pros

Relaxing job

Cons

Short shifts

Was this review helpful?

Friendly workplace, old building,

Personal Care Worker (Current Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 25 January 2018

I have worked for the facility for 6 years now. Since VMCH have taken over not much as changed. We still have the same amount of carers on the floor with an increasing number of resident's with high care needs, as we are aging in place and no longer send resident's requiring more care to another facility. The building itself is quite dated, not equipped with facilities big enough for residents requiring machines to transfer them, bathrooms are small, there is not much room for storage of machines. We used to have a dementia specific area with secured doors for safety, those doors are taken down and everyone is mixed together creating many more behaviours with people with dementia being in a loud environment and often they are able to abscond from the facility with visitors putting them in increasing danger of becoming lost and harmed. A new facility was proposed to be built 3years ago, nothing has eventuated and we are left with a facility that was never built for any of this.

Was this review helpful?

Be cautious

Disability Support Worker (Former Employee) - Kew VIC - 23 December 2017

The HR department bully and intimidate employees and give out incorrect information to employees regarding their entitlements. They put employees at risk by not providing adequate support and information to keep them safe in the workplace. Incompetent management who do not know relevent laws and acts applicable to the industry.

Pros

salary sacrificing, nice ground staff, beautiful clientele

Cons

management are incompetent

Was this review helpful?

Great place to work

Senior Human Resources Consultant (Former Employee) - Melbourne City Centre VIC - 13 November 2017

enjoyed working with my team and had a great leadership team. Great CEO.Great job satisfaction as a result of services provided to the Victorian community. Enjoyed meeting our stakeholders in various locations.

Pros

Worklife balance, freedom to be the best creative self, great support from managers and fellow team members. Great service to the community of Victoria.