*You will be overworked and underpaid. This is true of most community mental health, unfortunately.
*You will have minimal control over your schedule, who you work with, and how your day goes. You will be double booked and expected to randomly cut appointments short in order to meet with more people.
*The training that is offered is limited and more indicative of what corporate wants you to be doing with clients to maintain operational efficiency and limit liability, not to foster clinical growth.
* The productivity expectation is unreasonable and unachievable, but you will be personally blamed and publicly shamed for not meeting the expectation. Documentation, travel time, supervision, admin, training, and no-shows do not count toward your productivity. If you have a no-show, the expectation is that you are supposed to scramble to find something else to do, whether or not it is in your job description. You will often actively be asked to do things that are outside your role and scope.
*The processes for admin duties are frequently changed without clear communication. Many admin tasks such as maintaining various logs can be redundant and intensely time-consuming, and time spent does not count toward productivity despite being necessary for clinic operations.
* Supervision is limited and you will need to advocate for yourself intensely in order to get sufficient supervision time to log your hours at a correct ratio. Despite being legally necessary for you to be able to see clients if you are an associate, it will not be counted toward your productivity. You will also be required to attend treatment team meetings that will not count toward your productivity.
* Documentation is expected to be concurrent and collaborative but also highly detailed and completely unique for each client contact. Not every client is capable of meaningfully participating in the creation of documentation (for example, due to cognitive capacity or outright denial of diagnosis), but that doesn't matter. The expectation is the same across the board. Most people I worked with were either behind on documentation or doing it off the clock to maintain timeliness standards. That's not sustainable.
*All benefits were cut for part-time employees, and the benefits were a huge reason to even work for this type of company in the first place. Now, there is no health insurance, paid time off, or loan repayment. Of all the expenses to cut to make the company "sustainable", as the email announcing this change claimed, how does undercutting already underpaid employees lead to retention? I've known multiple people who were forced to leave the company because they needed health insurance, couldn't afford the buy-in the company was offering, and were ineligible for other affordable insurance because they were in the no-mans-land of salary range.
