Pros
On the good days, your co-workers really support you and have your back. Multiple FTE levels ranging from 0.0 to 1.0, depending on hours desired. Thorough team training in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention. Staff from other units can help out in crisis. Rewarding interactions with patients. Chance to make a difference in a kid's life.
Cons
On bad days, your co-workers don't support you very well at all. Being floated to units with poor leadership. People can and do get hurt on the job from violent patients. Traumatic environment. Vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue risks. Management is aloof and mostly ignorant to the daily struggles of the front-line workers, but yet assume they know everything, and will frequently implement new policies that are divorced from the front-line realities, for the purpose of making themselves look better on paper and no other reason.