Centerstone reviews

While working at this company, I felt as though it was being communicated to me that I did not have a right to determine what specialty I wanted to focus in; Employees in the company appeared to be choosing a specialty for me; even when I clearly stated this was not what I wished to pursue the company continued to pursue this alternate route and ignored my requests I believe an individual in this country should be allowed to choose their own specialty. Sharing the workload is one thing. One employee being forced into a specialty despite requests to not do so, when everyone else does not want to and the one employee is forced to take on the workload that everyone else does not want, is a serious concern and should not be tolerated. I would rather not be employed than be treated this way. Upper-level management makes it very clear that it is unacceptable for employees to tell superiors no, that they do not want to do something or anything. Employees are not allowed to disagree. It is not an atmosphere that feels calm, relaxing, certainly not accepting, and is just not a generally positive environment.

The pressure for clinical staff can be insurmountable at times with no structured administrative time, productivity standards and community mental health frequent no shows. It's especially difficult to appreciate time off without feeling that you are potentially punished by not working every day of every month. The management doesn't always seem to care and at times actively work against their staff which creates a tense and toxic work environment. Sometimes management is not always honest with their staff I think that management also has some high level of expectations that can be a bit unrealistic causing staff to not get the adequate level of support when needed. New staff sink or swim and old staff get used to figuring it out on their own. Sometimes you don't see or hear from management at all until something is wrong. There is absolutely no real quality control as to what is happening in sessions or work with clients. Much of what people do is inconsistent with quality care and effective practice according to research and it appears that Centerstone is not able to manage this. Financially, Centerstone seems unstable, laying off chunks of staff while rapidly expanding to other states. This happened a few times during my time there. In some Centerstone environments there seems to be budgets for fun things such as birthday celebrations while in other environments, there seems to be a void in anything that could add morale or enjoyment to hard working staff.