Good- but can be even better with some changes - SLP Tri-County Therapy Employee Review

Amazing coworkers, clean and very updated office facility, amazing equipment at the clinic such as a sensory room, gym, endless closets with board games, toys, and tools for therapy, if there is a specific toy, tool, or piece of equipment you would like to have for therapy your managers will most often buy it for the clinic. Super flexible schedule, only work 4 days a week with one flex day for makeup sessions and paperwork if needed, this flexibility makes it very easy to take weekend trips or vacations or sick days if needed because you just move your sessions to a flex day on a different week, my regional managers are very supportive they answer emails and message quickly and will always attend sessions I need help with. The billing, referrals, and scheduling team all make my work as a therapist so much easier, they work behind the scenes to fix any issues with insurance or referrals and are always willing to respond to parents who have questions about those things that I don’t know the answers to. This company had made changes to main concerns, such as enforcing attendance policy. While some can complain about cancellations or our salary, the annual salary is actually very similar if not higher than surrounding clinics, individual’s concerns with salary have to do with the healthcare system and the Charleston area, not this specific company. Tri-County Therapy hosts great CEU opportunities such as feeding courses and an AAC course coming up soon. Overall great experience, this was my first job out of graduate school, I completed my CFY here and I have now been here for 4 years this summer.

They do not pay for your ASHA dues, you can get burnt out easily working long days or if you have a difficult caseload however this will be with any job, when you first begin it is very overwhelming to figure out the software/system and all the different procedures, the first few months you will be doing more paperwork at home because you are still figuring out how to write notes and reports, but I promise you get the hang of it after a while and now I barely write notes at home, only evaluation reports and plan of cares on my flex days.

Opportunity to gain experience in the outpatient peds setting with on-site collaboration with OTs and PTs

- Although positions are described as salaried, compensation is closely tied to meeting weekly productivity targets (e.g., ~X hours of direct patient care). If these targets are not met-due to patient cancellations, no-shows, clinic or school closures, or therapist is sick/on vacation -PTO may be reduced to offset the difference. - PTO accrual rate is relatively limited compared to industry standards - Holiday pay is provided at a reduced number of hours, which may not reflect a typical full workday for therapists. - Significant portion of job responsibilities happen outside of direct patient care (documentation, coordination, scheduling, preparation, communication with families), - These structural challenges may contribute to frequent staff turnover and across disciplines (speech, OT, PT).