Top heavy company with a knack for gaslighting - Compliance Officer Compass Schools Employee Review

1.0
24 Dec 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some of the people you work with are nice, but will push you under a bus in a heart beat.

Cons

This company takes a person who is brilliant at their job, and stretches them so thin in demands, fake promises of “support” and blame that you end up feeling completely worthless. They gas light you into feeling you are incapable, when the truth is you are burnt out because of the unrealistic demands of them expecting you to do 16 other people’s jobs within your own. The company has got too big too quick and have no genuine interest in the well being of children just in it for the money. Says it all when they’ve been trying to be bought out for years and nobody wants them. I was once told to “make her life so miserable she leaves” when I asked for help in managing a staff member with a drink problem - disgusting….

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4.0
15 May 2026
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Pros

Growing company, has many divisions and offers good opportunity

Cons

Hours can be more than contracted ones and process are not always well defined

2.0
2 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The amazing young people you work with there and the relationships you build with them, therefore allowing them to be able to trust you is what is so great and worthwhile. Being able to make a difference to those young people, and see all their achievements big or small and celebrating that with them. Overall learning from the young people themselves.

Cons

Overall Staff safety is not at the forefront and the effects on your mental health and wellbeing are sadly not worth it in the long run. After being there a couple years, I felt mentally and physically drained, as much as I loved the young people I worked with, it was all to much, with so little support by management, and I often struggled to feel heard throughout my time there. The staff team is forever changing, including relying heavily on agency staff, which again affected staff safety and often put more work load on permanent staff. There were to many changes within the school, such as curriculum, classes, structure of the school. This was often without informing staff in advance or asking staff about these changes. I regularly did much more than I was paid to do as a TA, doing jobs that HLTAs or even teachers would be doing, and sadly was not getting paid for it. Little chance for development, the only time I was offered anything was when I handed my notice in, and by that point it was far to late.

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