"Your skills will be wasted here"

Your skills will be wasted here. Good luck If you want to be assaulted, have broken bones or have your personal property defaced and destroyed by the very same people you’re caring for and have zero support from the company. When an accident happens, management do not support you and all the blame will be put onto the regular care staff. Risk assessments are useless and out of date, so staff are not protected.
You only get promoted if you have the right face and if yours doesn’t fit, then you get bullied or pushed out. I have been a witness to some pretty vile behaviour from management to regular care staff and I can honestly say that this company is all about the money and couldn’t care less about the kids and their staff - we are all only a number and we are all replaceable. If you want to make a real difference in care and are truly empathetic and value human beings, please go somewhere else. Your mental health will suffer, and your soul will be broken, all whilst they (management and main office staff) gloat and push themselves up on their social media platforms (only Facebook now as oddly their twitter and Instagram account have been removed) on how wonderful they are. Funnily enough they don’t show bad reviews from Ofsted and how their staff struggle on a daily basis. Most of the main office staff are friends, friends of friends, relatives or spouses and are all in it together. Most of the 5-star reviews that you see on indeed are written by main office staff (Belper) trying to do some damage control. They do NOT represent the staff on the frontline and deal with all the craziness and abuse. They are safe in their office doing 9-5 and switch off their phone after that and then you are on your own. Even the managers on call don’t answer their phone or if they do, have no clue what to do; in general, care staff know more and deal with crises on their own.
I wish all the current staff good luck and do NOT require an official response from Esland Care. I have already spoken to Esland’s new CEO and raised my concerns. That was months ago, and nothing has changed based on recent Indeed reviews. I put in three years’ service with Esland and I am so glad I’m out but feel for my colleagues and friends.

"Don't do it!"

If you want to keep a good work-life balance don't work here you'll do lots of work and have no life the money might sound nice but a 60-hour working week really really isn't you go home dead and return to work half dead oh and if you ever have the opportunity to stay awake for 3-4 nights at a time with 15-year-olds running around smashing the house up off there heads on cocaine, then do it but be careful you might go to work and end up with serious injuries regularly staff members are hit around the head with rocks bricks on three occasions staff was admitted to hospital with concussion one lady had her head split open the blood was everywhere!

"Inadequate with lots of friction"

All I can say is I worked at Esland for 2 years my experience was inadequate with lots of friction, not just from the young people in fact mainly from your colleges firstly I would like to point out that managment need to stop allowing your regional managers and staff to falsify documents I am aware of three incidents that involved the falsifying of documents one causing a manager to leave because she felt no other option after attempts where made to bully and intimidate her into signing a document in an attempt to manipulate her opinions from a previous supervision and I'm not talking about EE, I mean what was you thinking I thought management needed to be a least competent EE didn't even have, probably still don't have her NVQ3 yes 3 guys! The new manager of orchard covered up the assault of a child and you talk about my ability to safeguard YP, ironic or what... on reflection I realise I connected with most young people if not all in some way at some point and I honestly believe my wise words will walk with some of them young people through life and all it brings.

My down fall was that I didn't connect with colleagues I was all for the young people

I said what I wanted to say when I wanted to say it at, times probably to honest and the senior team and management clearly didn't like it...

I always though I would love to be a RCW however after spending two years at ealand I realise the politics of it all kills it there's definitely! pretty much everyone you meet LIE and falsify its disgusting, as for the people at head office well what can I say they just don't have a clue and will do anything to increase profits people (including the young people) are simple cattle of cows there to provide a service or give them money, there vision is not to support and protect young people it's to get rich I just hope nobody dies while your trying.