Pros
-Coworkers, people actually working the floor with these patients are capable and you feel a kinship to them -mostly a 9-5 business model so weekends are free, basic holidays off
Cons
-The infrastructure is not there to support this level of acuity -Admissions is just a sales team who get patients into this program with falsities, and as such, they end up on your caseload understandably angry what they were told before intake doesn't match what the program actually is - Higher-ups have no idea what is happening day to day on site, making new rules each month that clinicians and other support staff have to try to explain -Any new rules were not told to clinicians and support staff before patients so we could never support them properly -Complete lack of follow through on consequences, drug usage with patients, so they impact others' treatment without being referred out or addressed -unethical practices- we had to document things that didn't happen to save company face -Patients report feeling like numbers and not properly supported regularly -The level of acuity this IOP accepts is more like PHP, therapists and support staff did not sign up for this level of acuity and as such many of us reported not knowing how to properly support these patients and feeling burnt out 2-3x faster -Pay does not increase each year, if you want a raise you need to jump through hoops and beg for a raise to justify it despite this level of acuity again -NO BONUSES for work output or year end, this combined with everything above makes it so hard to stay motivated when you were hired for an IOP and suddenly have to deal with PHP-level of care with no training, support, or reason why these changes were being made