Culture at Ramsay Health Care

Great good teamwork

Culture is surprising good considering the work load and pressure daily on the floor looking after patients. Hierarchy seems quite sensible mostly except for the very obvious show of position during our graduate induction. Doctors to one side (fully catered and pampered to) and nurses to the other side with not so much as a bottle of water or any catering. Please to say this has improved but was a disappointing start and almost caused me to walk about then and there.

I think most of the culture is good - there is still quite a lot of the eat your young culture still involved from older nurses to grads.

In the clinical setting (operating theatre) we have a terrible work culture.

People are relaxed and pretty sensible about other's culture and origines. The relationship between us is pretty friendly and it goes beyond the office ours.

Teamwork Alot of fun times especially at the end of the evening shifts

Bullying from experienced nurses, unsafe medication administration practices, poor staff-patient ratios. Management only focusing on profits over staff/patient safety. Minimal social interaction between staff out-of-hours. often poor cooperation from senior management in addressing staff shortages and safety issues

In office hours - multiple senior staff present and level 2 nurses on the floor and in the offices anum and then theatre NUMs as well

There is very low morale in my particular department as a result of overwork and extreme pressure with seemingly little in the way of support from the NUM. The company as a whole - i haven't worked out the heirarchy yet. The team itself are very caring and supportive of each other, but a loss of senior nurses currently due to the ward closures and pressures to work in other areas of the hospital will cause alot of difficulties. I am not aware of socialising amongst colleagues.

Amongst the people I work with on a daily basis, the culture is supportive and friendly. However, between teams it can be very adversarial, territorial and political. Generally management don'y seem interested in developing a pervasive "team" attitude and are more interested in their own ambitions.

Well, we essentially look out for each other. We spend a lot of time in work together and we have to have close relationships to make the day run well. So besides obviously a few people, most of us look out for each other and stand up for what is right if something is wrong,

Frequent friction within the team, mostly stemming from lack of staff and related stress.

Staff are friends with each other. Some wards have a social club while others don't. Some wards have a group chat online to facilitate shift swaps etc while others don't. As an employee you are free to socialise outside of work with your colleagues, if that is what you want.

In my work place everyone communicates very well with each other and always ready to help each other.

The structure can be slightly confusing sometimes, as there is a cross-over of the head office and global office - especially as when I first came into this role, I was told I had a different manager to the one I actually report to. In the office, we generally have a good time. I can reach out to other departments whenever I need to, and they are always very helpful. Compared to the UK, the executive board is a lot harder to reach out to, for example I have never met the Australia CEO (this isn't necessarily a bad thing, just very different to the UK business and the global business). My team has monthly lunch n learns, which is great as we hear about what has been going on in the team and the wider business. It is an opportunity to meet others in the team in person and catch up.

On shift people get on for the most part. Some tension between people but does not always show through. Outside of work I do not hear of people often socialising.

I feel that the office has a very formal setting and there isn't much opportunity to socialise with people outside of my team. There is a clear hierarchy in the company.

People within my team are very helpful and engaging with my work.

My department are very close due to our size, we often socialize outside of work. Our DCS is very accessible and approachable. Whilst having a small team is a positive the majority of the time, it does have its limitations and can create issues.

I believe each ward is different. I'm lucky now to be on a fabulous ward that's inclusive and supportive. However it wasn't always like that. As a grad I was rotated to a ward that was closed majorly of my rotation. This means I changed wards every shift and put in unstable situations. I was bullied and treated horrible by staff. I tried my best and if it wasn't for the ward I'm in now I would have left the company.