Vantaggi
Nothing, I took nothing from my experience other than a better judgement of characters
Svantaggi
Chronologically - I was enrolled with 4 other staff members in 2017, all from different regions who ll left within the first 3 months of employment. Soon discovered that staff turnover was HIGH. Pharmacists are hard-working, driven and intelligent individuals which implies that this company neither values nor recognises their faults. Training is poor, expectations to navigate new GP systems, understand clinical reviews, execute them faultlessly and build rapport with surgeries, set up clinics, send out letters and much more in only two days per therapeutic area whilst the colleague training you tries to be as productive as they SHOULD be without you there is far too unrealistic. Promotional opportunities are only truly within the reach of people with no external responsibilities or obligations such as families, partners or pets. Expect to stay away from home at least once or twice a week. This is because you’re encouraged to keep our diary rolling with projects you’re posted in, a you’re penalised in many ways if you are lucky enough to WFH as that day as not been profitable for ICS. The cold calls you make on that one day you get to spend in your own home need to be logged and truly result in project days -having to defend every conversation you’ve had. Therefore opportunities for lead roles only come to those that have the freedom to work away from home and constantly live a life on unsociable hours. Waking at 5 to commute to your 9-6, which may be 4 hours from tomorrow’s commute means no time to yourself, your lunch, your dinner, your fitness, socialising or mental health. This was an extremely common occurrence with people working in Norfolk from West Midlands 2+ times a week. No remuneration for the time you physically spent getting to work essentially this is a rate of £11/hr. Management were clique-y dishonest and malicious. Very calculating in their ‘management’ methods. Not approachable, not supportive and HR are clueless. Very apparent that no one has formal managerial experience and people skills are shocking. The PDA criticised the investigation and disciplinary methods that were essentially illegal. The initial negative review has clearly sparked internal attention and interest and explains the influx of positive reviews that followed- Likely internally driven. That review was clearly intending to investigate a breach of NDA which in itself should raise the question -why would a company force an NDA on former staff members?