Beacon Specialized Living Services

As a former employee of Beacon I do not recommend this place for residents or to be employed. Beacon claims to care for their employees but they show little to no appreciation for your hard work or dedication. Beacon closed the home I formerly worked in and promised a $1000 bonus to any employee who stayed until the home close. I just recieved my last paycheck from Beacon and what do you know they did not pay us the bonus. Nor will they give us an answer on when it will be paid. I worked on average 50 hours or more a week. They refused to let people take their pto time. And then refused to pay us our pto time when they closed our home. The VP of operations was rude and never personable. Long hours, long days. Giving them one more week to recieve my bonus or I will be pursuing legal action.

As a previous employee, I would advise avoiding this place. I would both avoid working here and bringing a client to live here. From a staff POV, you will be tremendously underpaid for the work and mental stress that each day will bring. 14.35/hr is not worth being put in between multiple violent individuals without the rights of protecting yourself from them, mopping up pee trails, dealing with elopement, and suicidal/self-harm behaviors. If you think you could get a raise through their company leveling system you are wrong, you wont get a change in compensation unless you can become a lead staff (lvl 5), and that would take a year+. Due to management not enforcing what probably should be, Day staff just sits on their phones for the majority of their shift without spending any time or interaction with clients, they do the absolute minimum with them and its sad. Being a client here means eating the same food every week, doing the same exact thing everyday, and making no progress with personal goals.

My first day of employment, there was issues with two employees and it continued on months down the road. One legit staff meeting AFTER having it canceled after the meeting was suppose to happen, this issue was happening 6 months prior to it. Almost a year of dealing with this one employee causing issues with everyone and nothing was done. Policies aren't followed by management, leveling up means nothing now and is such a pain to do. I found out several days after putting in my notice of leaving that there was a missing documentation for my PCM that nobody told me about so I wasn't certified in that for 4 months. Management tells employees to figure out scheduling on their own when it's management that messes it up. If something negative is said about the schedule, the only way to get an answer is to publicly send a message on Teams but then it's inappropriate because it's inconvenient for them time wise. Home manager has staff call other employees in so she can leave instead of assisting with a crisis and will not help if in the office but clocked out and staff asks for assistance.