Pros
SOME excellent immediate management Colleagues compassionate about patient/family care PAY, and HOURLY -- as opposed to salary. Excellent pro - only whole employed (if you "earn" time and cut ties, you do not receive that time). Competitive 401k.
Cons
Health insurance benefit (does it seem right that those working in the medical field, who provide care to people who are sick and dying, aren't provided with a decent health care plan?) SOME TERRIBLE immediate management Upper management put bottom line above all else - including patient and family care Social Worker role viewed only as a necessity, not valued; this former employee would be shocked if SWe were even employed if not for MCare rqmts. It became apparent, following a merger with another large hospice for-profit org, that the primary goal of upper mgmt - along with some branch and area-level mgmt - is to provide BELOW-the-BARE- MINIMUM level of care fron this discipline. When the primary function of the social worker is viewed as presence at IDG mtgs/signing of care plans, when the standard of sw care is expected to be 0/PRN MSW visits per month, when branch managers are having RNCMs do SW assessments and SWs are expected to do phone visits in place of in-home visits (even for initial sw assessment), how could one think otherwise? Oh yes, andefinitely caseloads of 75+ per 1 SW across 3 separate rural areas?!?!?
