Seven Counties Services Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Seven Counties Services full-time for more than a year

Pros – This is a close-knit and collaborative community. You'll find that a lot of the professionals work well together and understand the valuable resources that they can provide to one another. At the ground level of operations, there are many people satisfied with their roles and you could make a comfortable living working there.

Cons – Administration, like with more mental health agencies, often goes against the grain with the professionals in the field.

Change takes a while to happen, and even higher-up admins have advised against joining the organization.

Advice to Senior Management – Value your employees and the services they provide.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Seven Counties Services full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Pretty good pay and great line staff. Love to work with the Clients.

Cons – Extremely bad management. You hate to come to work daily. No one to complain to. HR covers up all complaints. Either upper management don't care or they believe what director's and managers say. I don't know anyone who has faith in the management. It's so sad. Management has lost focus on what the real mission is.

Advice to Senior Management – The Board needs to not take the word of upper management and find out from staff and former employees on what has went on. It's not a healthy workplace.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Seven Counties Services

Pros – I love it, great environment

Cons – Not enough pay, you have to do mulitple jobs.

Former Employee – worked at Seven Counties Services full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – 1) number and variety of training opportunities
2) solidarity of employees who make up the smaller units or teams
3) opportunities to serve a variety of populations

Cons – 1) out of touch administrators
2) the change in focus over the last 4-5 years from client-centered to profit-centered services
3) unwillingness of upper administration to remain loyal to employees and the overall lack of support for staff who put in long hours and often many years of service

Advice to Senior Management – Spend time with your employees both in the field and in supervision to gain a realistic view of what they each actually do throughout the workday. Provide support when staff discusses particular issues they might be experiencing, offer viable solutions or options rather than reprimand. Remember the loyalty and commitment your employees have shown and provide them with some sort of meaningful reward or incentive. Remember that working directly with clients/consumers, often is challenging and results in varying degrees of " success" in the short-term for the people you supervise. Plan ways to increase job satisfaction, remembering the challenges and sometimes seemingly non-existent positive results your team members frequently encounter. Simply being an "available" and non-threatening supervisor adds to job satisfaction and resulting increased productivity of people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Seven Counties Services full-time for less than a year

Pros – 1) Lots of training opportunities. Plentiful learning seminars including free CEUs for varying fields.

2) Lots of departments - you like working with teen parents? Young kids? Crises? Maintenance? They've got all the options. Pick your poison.

3) Excellent opportunity to network, so if you decide it's not for you, it's easy to go somewhere else.

Cons – 1) You won't work for Seven Counties. You'll work for Laurus Strategies Recruiting so that Seven Counties doesn't have to pay your retirement. This also means that you DO NOT work for a non-profit organization, so if you're counting on putting in ten years of public service for student loan forgiveness, look elsewhere.

2) The pay is pretty awful. And non-negotiable from their starting offer. I recommend bluffing a bit when they ask you to describe your previous experience if you'd like something approaching a live-able wage.

3) The benefits are even worse. 10 combined sick/vacation days, which they "encourage you to take" (gee, thanks) but no more than a week per quarter. Insurance is atrociously expensive if you are more than a single person ($200-$500 every 2 weeks).

4) I've given work-life balance 4 stars because that's how it is in my unit. Please be advised, each unit is very much its own monster, so take a good look around or ask people in a particular unit how things go for them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Seven Counties Services

Pros – Pay is the best an LPN can find in this area, very flexible schedule, co-workers are supportive and friendly

Cons – Management
Communication
 Advancement within the company non-existent

Advice to Senior Management – Communication needs work

Current Employee – been working at Seven Counties Services full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Supportive team
awesome work environment
love my clients
great pay

Cons – insurance is pretty terrible
tons of paperwork that is redundant

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Seven Counties Services

Pros – vacation time and job flexibiliby

Cons – long hours and large caseloads

Advice to Senior Management – No thank you.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend