Pros
- Good salary - Good benefits - Supportive team environment - Flexibility (almost too much)
Cons
- Had to work occasional weekends and had to have an after-hours phone that clients could call at 3am or whatever time they wanted to (was not told about these factors when I accepted position) - Took forever to actually build a caseload (spent much of the time bored and not engaging with clients) - When working with clients, did a lot of transporting clients to various appointments/helped them move into a new apartment/observing cleaners while they cleaned a client's apartment - A ton of work around referring clients to other services and not actually working with them on their issues - Job description looked good on paper but did not match what I actually did - Did not feel like the skills I learned in grad school and in previous jobs were being used - Felt that we were walking a fine line between providing services and glorified hand-holding/babysitting - Essentially no training by supervisor (so I had no idea what to do and when) - SO MUCH PAPERWORK (spend more time doing paperwork than working with clients) - Culture that was constantly worrying about what DMH was gonna say they did wrong next, since Vinfen is a DMH contractor - I was told that "we are not clinicians - we are outreach workers" by my supervisor. Um, excuse me?