Pros
The clients will become your life long additional family. The daily interactions with them you have shows them compassion and care and provides a familiar support that many of them do not have. It allows them to open up to care about you, just the pure happiness you see on their faces when you show up every morning is truly the best part of the job.
Cons
The pay is absolutely the worst for the services you provide for the clients. Any other company and/or state starts you out at $3-5 higher on the hour for new and/or inexperienced hires. The higher ups will manipulate, bully, and threaten you with be termination if you complain or request/call off . They will leave you on shift for 19hours or more all while you have children waiting at home with a sitter or family member. They do not do their jobs by calling for other stuff to come and the very few times they do actually call for relief, well that’s when the threats of termination come in to play and the manipulation. They do not by any means value the Behavioral Health Technicians and the many Lead BHT’s can be just as awful to the staff working in the clients homes. The company will literally hire anyone to go provide care and support in the client homes and the new staff have been known to steal from them, bring outside individuals into their homes after they’re in bed, do drugs while working, neglect their needs and even verbally/physically mistreat them. The company does not care about their clients, they strictly profitable money makers.