Pros
- Flexibility with work to an extent. I can "flex" my time for another day if i have worked over my 8 hours a previous day, and essentially begin work later in the day. - Supervisors and Staff are friendly and supportive. - The work itself is very rewarding, especially considering you are helping individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to get services that they might desperately need to be independent. - reimbursement provided for travel and or internet as well. - The clients yo interact with are very friendly and nice at times.
Cons
- Too many constraints on work logging. Every hour of your day must be logged, every day. Meaning, regardless of what you are doing, it must be logged on their online logging platform. If you are ok with that sort of thing, great, but i personally hate having to do that because it is redundant, but for TCM (Targeted Care Management) it is required. Just not something i like. - Lack of organization. When i came in, things were so unorganized, i thought i would lose my mind. We utilized Sharepoint, but even that was unorganized, and organization in this job is key to survival. Additionally, lack of organization on the file system for clients was horrible. There was no effort to organize clients based on who they were assigned too, which made searching for individual clients a bit more time consuming. Not to mention, the abundance of files that are given to employees, and they are just expected to organize it themselves, even for files that were critical for conducting work. Unbelievable. - The amount of work given. This part wasn't so bad, however what was bad was that often times, work would be given, and then employees would be expected to get training done as well. To manage both would be extremely difficult, for both new hires and existing employees, but especially for new hires. - Onto training, new hire SC's were not officially trained in this line of work until around beginning of August, if they had been hired back in January 2023 up to August 2023. Thats 8 months of no formal training. No matter what, if you want to succeed as a company you need to either bring on people who already have some semblance of this line of work to an extent, or, train them in a short span of time so that they can be ready as soon as possible. A formal training program also can reassure employees who want that sense of formality in an organization. When companies skimp out on training formally, you lose some employees who are looking for that sense of consistency and formality. - Pay. Pay is not even manageable when you account for benefits. At best, youll be making 2600-2800 per month in this job. They pay 22.25-22.65, incumbent on yur experience. Not to mention, that their requirments for this job are individuals with a Bachelors or an RN. Now, as far as i am aware, an RN can easily make upwards of 4000-5000 per month in a nursing role. Why woyld they want to work here? - TLDR; If you think you will enjoy working with individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities to obtain Medicaid funded waiver services or EMAP services to help them out in their life, and don't mind some of the cons I have listed, then I say go for it. But for me personally, I don't like the above cons, plus the slowness of the job. Non-Profit work just isn't for me.
