I was employed there for 6 months and it was one o...

I was employed there for 6 months and it was one of the worst jobs i've ever had. Like another reviewer I was a male employe which is rare because Settlement Home doesn't employ many males. This was a double edge sword because I could never be one on one with a young girl in case there were accusations of abuse. I liked the rule because it protected me but it also made it difficult if I had to take a client to a medical appointment as there always had to be at lease three girls so when one went in to see her physician there would be two girls and one wouldn't be one alone with me.
I was promised a full time position by the relief coordinator as well as HR but no full time positions materialized. I had an interview with one of the program therapist but she never got back to me. Actually this rotund therapist, whose only interest in life was restraining young girls, poisoned the well often speaking bad of me to other therapists until eventually no one wanted me to work direct care in their program. This made me a condemned man and and for work I did a lot of relief shifts working in a lot of different programs but never consistently enough to make acquaintances or develop a bond with the kids. At SH relief staff are often treated as pariahs and unlike most jobs you aren't allowed to make any mistakes and if you do your condemned, a scapegoat. I would often get in trouble for doing something core staff told me to do. One night I was sent home from work because the house parent had a dog who didn't like men. In other words they chose a dog over me as an employee. I knew it was time to move on when during one shift my senses were raped after witnessing a cat wedding coordinated by one of the obese therapists.
I was initially enthusiastic to be working at Settlement Home but due to the poor treatment I received and a terrible work schedule I began to dread going to work. I sometimes would show up for work and would talk myself into staying. My spirit was completely squashed after a therapist who was returning from maternity leave blindsided me when she made wild accusations against me accusing me of not knowing where the clients were and what they were doing.The fact I never had worked at this program before I thought I was doing a good job to the best of my abilities. For his the HR person (and one of SH's syncopates whose job responsibility no one knows) tried to coax me into signing a paper full of libels which were unfounded and proved to be untrue. I felt as a male relief staff I was alone and there was no way to protect myself against cruel therapists and their libelous accusations. I felt like an outcast and no longer safe. I began to work Settlement home less and started to work other jobs more until the day I started to work full time elsewhere and thank G-d almighty I was free at last.
All in all if you want a job as a new age correctional officer and love restraining kids Settlement Home is for you. Most of the other employees and house parents seemed phony and were obsequies towards their house therapist except for a few. The few I didn't get to know because of my schedule I worked all over the place and didn't get to know anyone that well. The clients were awesome but I didn't work with any of the girls long enough to form a bond. It seemed like staff was dictated to write up their negative behavior to get money from the state while ignoring their positive behavior.
Sometimes when a girl didn't have a negative behavior you either had to accentuate a negative behavior or make one up. working at Settlement home was a horrible experience and I am grateful I am no longer employed there