Pros
Colleagues are helpful, knowledgeable and kind. Clinical onsite manager is clinical, helpful and kind. Probably a good job or a new therapist. Able to order a variety of supplies.
Cons
Facility that you will practice in is a huge room in a basement with no windows or carpet to let in sunlight or absorb sound. It's noisy and so packed with patients and therapists you literally trip over them; you hear everything said by the therapist and patient working right next to you including personal questions about issues about depression and incontinence. The software used for documentation is extremely long and cumbersome and the documentation requirements itself are so extreme it affects your ability to treat your patients and creates a enormous amount of ridiculous, and unnecessary stress on the therapist. The supervisor above the onsite clinical manager is a mouthpiece for an administration that shows little caring and regard for the professionals working in the space; it is apparent that you are not viewed as a professional. You may be tasked with supervising an inexperienced therapist but will never get any credit or financial renumeration for your efforts. You must read your contract carefully; corporate lawyers create it and administration will interpret in the way that suits them regardless of whether it accurately represents your actual job duties. The hospital employs a very traditional top down structure; there little opportunity to be heard above the onsite clinical manager (although due to past criticisms they have created a pretend mechanism for this). Please see other reviews that echo this point. There is little opportunity for professional advancement or for for creative collaboration with a colleague. There is very little consistent administrative support; always an issue with patients checking in and the receptionist desk being backed up or absent. You really have no control over anything and are pretty much treated like an uneducated warm body expected to fit a job description as written whether or not, that is the job you perform. Focus of care and philosophy in general, is regressive based on outdated paradigm vs any effort paid toward primary or secondary prevention models; this statement is more true of PT than hand therapy (which is strictly viewed as OT). Never a discussion about lifestyle issues such as then need for exercise and activity; the amount of junk food is totally outrageous. There is no union or any ombudsmen or mechanism you can utilize for support; you are on your own.