Comfort Keepers in North Dublin were excellent at minding my mother, who had dementia. Some of the carers were really gifted. All were caring. You could sense they really loved Mam. The management were excellent despite typical family conflict, calm and professional, communicating well. As an experienced gerontological nurse, I have high standards of care and overall, i was very happy with comfort keepers and their reliability. everyone knows there is a crisis in home care nationally but Mam was well looked after. I am very grateful to Comfort Keepers
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Erin W.
Excellent services
Excellent services. Professional company.
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Dawn K.
They Looked for the same documents like…
They Looked for the same documents like cv proof off address & photo ID over & over they are wasting my time I wish I never applied here stay clear from this company wouldn’t recommend i feel like I was being lead to believe I passed the 1st stage sheer waste of time ….. no response after I sent the documents twice ridiculous carry on..
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Charllise L.
Very unprofessional.
Very unprofessional.
I was contact by one of the Lead generation Team
Comfort Keepers for a job application as a Live-in Cariergiver by email, and was told to send supporting documents for my application. I told them that will need two days to colect the nesesery pepper work. A day letter I resived a email stating that I'm supposed to send all the nesesery things. I was able to email everything a day after. I had to collect a letter from my bank as a prove of address, normally it will take a few days the bank to provide the letter. And then keep in mind that things has to be in English. For my surprise I resived a email shortly after that, stating that my application was unsuccessful. Without any reasonable explanation why when I emailed all the nesesery things my application was "unsuccessful"?!
Very disappointing and unprofessional. There is miscommunication going on between them and you very much.
DON'T recommend them. It will be a headache. There is many other company's that are more reliable to work with.
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Victoria M.
Terrible company
Terrible company, I would not trust them with a dog never mind a vulnerable older person. The carer's overdosed my fathers medication, then tried to blame him, even though I had personally given clear instructions, wrote them down, got the hospital to email them too, they let him miss medication also and my Father took very ill after two days of incorrect medication taking. When I pulled one of the carers up on it he showed no remorse, blamed my Dad and told me I'm not a good person. They also wrongly told me my Father was end of life palative care, he had organ failure and a palative team will be coming to him, NONE of this was true and caused a lot of distress to my family and I until I found out from the hospital this was not the case. Its very hard to get them to admit anything, they prefer to try blame somone else. The times were not adhered to, they sent people out that didn't seem to know what they were doing and my Dad has been extremely upset with his experience. He was in hospital for four months and should have come out to recuperate at home, we are only with them six days and we are now in search of a different company, two of the carers were excellent but the company as a whole, I would avoid like the plague. If I could leve minus stars I would, disgrace of a company. Avoid, avoid avoid
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Ioana Q.
Disorganised process and poor communication- Disappointing Candidate Experience
I initially had a positive impression of this company during my first interview, but unfortunately my experience quickly changed.After being accepted for training, I had to wait two months for my scheduled session. On the day, I struggled to find the location due to a lack of clear directions, and no one answered my calls. I even emailed them, but as a result, I missed the scheduled time. They rebooked me for another interview — again after another month of waiting.
When I finally attended training, day one felt more like being back in school than practical job preparation. We were asked to take notes and then told at the end of the day that there would be a test the next morning, based entirely on that day’s material. We were given very limited time to prepare, and no one was informed in advance about the test. The questions were challenging to learn in just a few hours.
After completing the training, I received no update on my results or next steps. Two days later, I had to contact them myself, only to be told I had not been accepted.
In my opinion, this experience showed a serious lack of communication and respect for candidates’ time. I turned down other opportunities to attend, and I left feeling disappointed and undervalued also they knew that they don't have work in the area but they choose to waste mine and everyone's time
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Dara
Not sufficient time
My parent is been looked after through this company. The process has now changed to 2 carers at a time meaning that if one arrives early they can not enter the house until the second arrives, which could be 30mins later. This results that they are rushing to get to the next client.
What assistance can be done in less than 20mins. The service is very poor.
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Anonymous
work
Worst experience. I've had complete dissatisfaction with the supervisor and staff they sent me. Some situations I had were arriving over an hour late but agency does not have them make up the time. Dirty greasy dishes, etc they left unwashed, being told they did my dishes only to see that dirty dishes were left after checking when they leave, one worker told me she couldnt lift my garbage can so i had to throw out my garbage, one refusing to go into my befroom for supplies in my closet. Putting dirty and greasy unwashed pots etc back into cupboards and under sink cabinets, disrespectful, dishes washed that contained food and not washed properly,
complaining, not following directions, displaying an attitude, orders and instructions, new workers scheduled and not showing up at all, agency not notifying me that workers wont be coming in that day, agency not meeting the times scheduled for workers per week, turnover of workers, walking off the job without explaining why, on their telephones conducting their personal business, not wearing any uniform or badges, not wearing their seat belts when I was in their vehicle, asked for personal possessions that I was throwing away. Being told that they did take care of something when they didnt. Being lied to, not making my meals, Unprofessionalism and poor communication and no empathy with supervisor I was assigned to over their workers. They dont care when i addressed all my complaints. Finally they wouldnt send me anyone else. Told me to find another agency. Because i had too many things. I of light housekeeping but the workers they didnt do that. They did not do their job.thats why they were hired but I had laundry stacked because their workers wouldnt wash it. Misc not put in proper places. And i didnt have enough hours for them to do it as this company never gave me workers to fulfill my schedule. Today after many months being with this company i was told my house is too messy. That it requires deep cleaning. I looked up the definition of it and my household didn't require it. It is a bit messy but nobody arranged my stuff to make it tidy. Also because they didnt send workers in the first place to meet the schedule and all the trouble that i indicated here. Kept getting workers to do their job correctly etc.Today one worker just walked off. Note this has happened before with other workers.. Nothing was said to me when I was on my phone. She was here and walked out after a day working here. I asked her to clean my bathroom and she took the supplies left them on the floor and was gone. She left a broom and pan in another spot which didn't belong there. I tried calling her but she didn't answer her phone. This company and workers had a total lack of respect for being a senior disabled person to sum it up. I was mistreated and this agency was poor. They caused me much stress. I also question if these workers are even trained for the job they were hired to do. Like I said today I was told by the supervisor to find another agency. I shouldn't be dealing with this. They created it for me. I wasnt responsible. All I was seeking is help. The workers didn't do their jobs.