Pros
One of the Higher pay I’ve seen in these types of mental health agencies.
Kontras
Overworked AND Underappreciated workers definitely! Higher pay seems to compensate for the highway robbery of your time off from work because Any paid time off is all from one bank of time. Meaning there is no holiday pay at all. There is no separate sick time, personal time, or vacation time pay that you accrue. You have only one very small amount of any kind of PAID TIME OFF that you accrue per pay. You must give your earned PTO for holidays when the agency is closed! You don’t even get a paid lunch. Lunch is 30 minutes and You have to punch in and punch out IF you want to take lunch. And you will need lunch as it can be your only breathing time due to having a jam packed schedule of patients from the moment you start until the end of the day. They make you produce schedules full of clients that would be unrealistic and overwhelming to see them all in a day. Your only saving grace is in patient cancellations or no shows so that you can breathe or use the restroom. If all patients show it’s overwhelming and seeing that many patients per day per week is guaranteed burnout for yourself as a provider of mental health care. It’s your Typical mental health agency offering no care or concern for the mental health caregiver. There’s no incentives, rewards, or encouragement being given along the way to recognize praise or acknowledge the hard and challenging work inherent to counseling/mental health work. And, the only feedback given is in hearing about a job done or gone wrong.Nothing is being said about the good or what’s going right.