Chesterfield Services Reviews

3 months from application to first day working, they don't answer their phones. Expect to be offered a job tentatively, spend weeks waiting to fill out onboarding paperwork, spend weeks waiting to get your back ground check appointment and then the normal weeks to get your background check. Clients may have severe mental health issues that you won't get warning of, certainly no training. They may have people living with them that have severe mental health issues, violent criminals or may just have abusive relationships with the people you care for. I am highly trained, before starting in the home care business, with severe mental illness and both the lack of information going into the home and lack of support is dangerous...you cant get ahold of the business for help when you need it and they dont have it anyways. Your clients will have services listed on their care chart they do not need and you will have to say you provided that services on an app at the end of every visit or be disciplined. example: client had toilet, walking and transportation assistance listed: went to the bathroom completely independently, could not only walk but jog and go up stairs, went on "self-care drives" where they drove there own car for hours on their own to look at pretty things. You will have to bring your own smart phone and vehicle (in your name, insurance in your name, vehicle that passes stringent standards), reimbursement for mileage is limited to trips you take with the client, if you have 3 clients who live hours apart that will all be on you.. Clients can chose to not work with you any moment, you must give them two weeks notice. The admins will be rude. If you ask a question, if they ever get back to you, they will be upset they are even talking with you "flexible schedule" means you are flexible. Clients chose the hours not you. You will end up sitting in the middle of no where for hours waiting for the next client's time because you are too poor to drive home and could only be there for 30 minutes anyways. if I wasn't most interested in certification so I could build my own business I would have quit every single day. not worth it.

Dishonest Sent me to clients homes without my background check x7. I was uncomfortable so called my union rep. I applied asking for eves and weekends, they kept sending me day shifts and getting mad when I couldn't take them. As a new employee, I was put in a defensive position 3x before I even got a client; explaining I couldn't do day shifts and that I specified e/w'ends. They pulled my file and wallah...I made a 1/2 hour trip in for something they should have known. No return emails or calls when I asked about how to record my hours. So many red flags....and then once I finished my training, they let me go with a lie...I'm a masters level social worker, highly referenced and doing this work for 20 plus years....I didn't care they let me go but the lie?? Sooooo weird.