Pros
The delivery teams at VA are amazing and hugely passionate anout advocacy and supporting the service users often going above and beyond mostly on good will.
Cons
Salaries are low and benefits little, training is provided at advocacy level as it is mandatory for some roles but there is a learning agreement in place that leaves a lot to be desired and many people owing money of they decide to leave. Senior management have little to no idea on what is going on at the frontline and often show little interest in day to day delivery which is the bread and butter of the organisation. There is an absolute lack of support from the top down to the teams although the service managers and managing advocates do there best in difficult circumstances. There is a culture of bullying behaviour from senior management If it isn’t going there way and there has been allegations of sexual inappropriateness from director level, advice would be not to get on the wrong side of the SMT because you will pay for it one way or another!
