Great oversight and communication from admin - PA-C CCNC Employee Review

Great inpatient/outpatient experience and mentorship under providers.

Pay should be increased for evaluators

-exposure to a wide variety of patients (ages, presenting problems, etc.) -I liked the EHR (eCW) -don't have to do any administrative tasks such as scheduling clients, insurance, billing, confirming appointments, etc. -good for LCSWAs or LMHCAs to gain experience in the field and learn your niche, supervision is included -nice and supportive co-workers

-burnout is likely. If you are full-time (Monday-Thursday 8-6pm), you will have 12 patients scheduled per day, back-to-back-to-back every 45 minutes. That is unsustainable for anyone and much, MUCH higher than the industry average -caseloads are regularly 150-200+ per clinician. This is simply not okay. Your patient is lucky if they see you every 2-4 weeks. Very difficult to make progress -if you are an associate-level clinician, you will only see Medicaid patients (with maybe 2 self-pay). Issues that these patients experience are complex, there is a lot of trauma, and usually systemic issues that you have no control over, which makes the work extra challenging. That, coupled with the fact that you don't have time to do the hard work (due to issues stated above), can leave you feeling useless -most therapists seem to just be "surviving the week" and spending the weekend to recover and do it all over again the following week. Very hard to have work-life balance -there is no time (mental energy or real time) to do specialized trainings and improve your craft. There isn't time to even prepare for sessions -Pay needs to be higher. If broken down, we are paid $22-23/hour. There is a common phrase in the social work/counseling fields that "we didn't get in it for the money." We also didn't get in it to give our all to a job and our patients at the expense of our own well-being and still struggle to pay the bills every month. That mindset needs to change, we are providing an extremely valuable service to society and deserve to get paid fairly, especially considering how much we are bringing in to the company. I'll get off of my soap box now -Other therapists are great, but the overall culture at the company is very negative. It feels like no one enjoys working there and everyone is planning for the one day when they can finally leave