high school teacher

learning support assistant

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elementary school teacher

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London-Borough-of-Redbridge

I left this job because staying any longer was affecting my mental health. I genuinely enjoyed supporting service users, and that was the only reason I looked forward to coming to work. Unfortunately, everything else made the experience extremely difficult.

My biggest challenge was the operational manager. In my personal experience, I felt constantly under pressure, unsupported, and undervalued. I never felt that staff wellbeing was a priority. Instead of receiving guidance and encouragement, I felt criticised and stressed most of the time. The working environment became so toxic for me that I dreaded going to work every day.

The stress I experienced at work contributed to severe anxiety and depression. I had never imagined that a job could have such a negative impact on my mental health, but it did. Leaving was one of the hardest decisions I had to make, yet it was necessary to protect my wellbeing.

A typical day involved supporting vulnerable adults, completing documentation, working as part of a team, and dealing with challenging situations. I learned a great deal professionally and valued the opportunity to make a positive difference in the lives of service users. They were the best part of the job.

The hardest part of the role was dealing with management. In my experience, there was a lack of empathy, support, and effective leadership. Staff should feel respected and supported, especially when working in such a demanding environment, but that was not my experience.

Based on my personal experience, I would not recommend working here unless there are significant improvements in management, communication, and staff wellbeing. No employee should leave a workplace feeling that their mental health has been damaged.

On a day to day basis I look at different cases, individually carefully and with good attention to detail. Since being with Redbridge Council I have learnt alot especially about several In-house systems and about the different types of benefits people can claim if they are working and not working.

I currently work as part of a team of 12 people and work very well with them as we deal with problems within our team or amongst each other. I also feel very confident in approaching all members individually if and when I need to.

The most enjoyable part of the job is knowing that my whole team and I all work very well together as well as having a great working relationship with them.

Also when the public acknowledge the importantance of my role, by appreciating me when I contact them myself and give them the best possible customer services I can.

It's important for me to acknowledge when I have done my job successfully without any major issues. I also find myself getting really involved in particular cases in order to get to the bottom of specific things which are essential for assessing people's Housing Benefit applications.

The hardest part of my job is when I come across complicated cases which can be time consuming in some instances. Previously I have had to interview members of the public with my colleagues for support and this has been difficult as it's hard to predict whether they are actually telling the truth about their current situation or not.

As a work coach working within a family support Team I have had a chance to broaden my knowledge on social issues that affect society and built up a strong network of support with local and national organisations and charites.
This has enabled me to build on my my skills to support individuals to move towards or into employment by tailor making a plan of action with them. This could be around appropiate training, voluntary work or employabity skills depending where they are in their journey.
I have the flexibility to see clients on an outreach basis, which could include home visits, appointments at libraries and local jiob clubs that I run around the borough.
Sometimes I can be dealing with very vulnerable families who are going or have gone through some very difficult times and you have to be able to maintain professional stance while supporting that family whatever your personal feelings may be.
But the positive side of this is seeing indiviuals and their families moving forward in their lives by building up their confidence, skills and financial  security.

The London Borough of Redbridge (LBR) is one of the smaller local authorities within London.

It is considerably behind the majority of other boroughs in terms of innovation and development in all areas and this has created a very challenging environment to work in.

Due to the previous Chief Executive and his team failing to take appropriate measures when the financial crisis took hold LBR is currently in the process of trying to find savings up to £60,000,000 over the next two years. This contributes to the challenging nature of the workplace environment.

Senior Management continue to struggle to get to grips with the best way to guarantee these savings leading to regular changes of direction in policy and priorities making my role particularly uncomfortable.

The best of the job for me is the autonomy I have within my role. I am not micro managed and this has allowed me to develop within the role over the years.

No day is ever the same; working with young people is a great experience and a huge learning curve for all that take on this kind of work.
I have learned that you must let a youngster be heard, listen to them.
Safeguarding and confidentiality to all of our students is paramount.

Line manage two Healthcare assistants, I am able to delegate day to day tasks and train them on health/ medical issues. I offer guidance and reassurance.

Contribute to the LSA appraisal system.

I have a good working relationship with my co-workers, they are able to approach me with their work and personal issues, always with discretion.

Child Protection is the hardest part of my job, the anxiety of what the children go through can be heart breaking. You need to be kind, caring, sympathetic, use judgement in the appropriate way.

The most enjoyable part of my job is to see a child achieve.

I am very thorough in my record keeping and documentation.

Unfortunately the very large salaries drawn by the chiefs means very few Indians left to do the work. Plenty of management speak about teams and challenges but they are fundamentally clueless about the direction local government needs to take. A lot of hot air being expelled about becoming a traded service or some form of limited company- deckchair re-arrangement on the Titanic springs to mind.
There will be opportunities in future, there always are, but the loss of expertise means restarting from a low base. 
Remodelling has resulted in no offices and hot desking as the norm which really tells you how expendable you are
A lot of blogging by senior management which they think is communication but are we really interested in where they arte going for their next holiday?

I teach Spanish to Primary School children. The classes are at lunchtime and at after school hours. With kids the challenges are to make the classes both interesting and enjoyable, with lots of different activities. I've learned that being patient, flexible and adaptable are key. It is very important to get the classes prepared before hand but things might need to be adapted when it comes to the actual teaching. The hardest part of the job is dealing with kids who can be disruptive or not so interested in the subject. However, experience is very helpful with classroom management. The most enjoyable part of the job is to see at first hand how quickly they learn a foreign language and how much they love it! It is a very satisfaying job! Children are very enthusiastic and it is a very happy experience. I simply love my job.

The job was not routine and it was forever changing which what I liked about it and the workplace was amazing. Nonetheless the cost cutting strategy that the council embarked on it was inevitable that work would get more demanding. Staff were not valued in the process as it was purely a number crunching exercise. Skills were not matched to appropriate Jobs hence staffs left were unexperienced and turnover of staff keep increasing. Management was very poor with no clear direction.

My social enterprise and community roots has charitable acumen under the umbrella of Housing Services, from being helpful for raising projects in my spare time to transfers of feedback or communicating peacefully in consultation policy acumen with Housing Officers presiding over arrangements for discovering residents with enterprising checks on council housing services.

days were dynamic, our managers let us do our jobs as long as at the required time the work was done so it was a joy to go to work !
Training was offered for anyone wanting it.
Co workers were like family.
Hardest part was not being able to help the Public in certain circumstances like when cases had to go to Magistrates Court for possible Committal to Prison.
Best part was being able to do my Job yet make a difference to te Public i was dealing with.

Top Job Titles	Average salary
High school teacher 99 salaries reported	£40,795 per year
Learning support assistant 26 salaries reported	£26,276 per year
Teaching assistant 18 salaries reported	£27,782 per year
Elementary school teacher 35 salaries reported	£46,208 per year
Assistant teacher 21 salaries reported	£38,183 per year

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