As a former employee of South Bay Mental Health in Brockton I found several things to be very frustrating. First I too was told that there would be plenty of referrals. I was also told that they would try to keep me in the Abington/ Rockland area and maybe have some cases in Brockton. However this was not true... Most of my cases were in Brockton and I didnt mind so much because I loved my patients. \r
Secondly supervision meetings were extremely frustrating for a number of different reasons. Having no experience with Early Intervention other than working with them in the childcare settings that I worked, I felt as though I was just thrown to the wolves. We were supposed to schedule our own intakes, assesments and set up times to do the IFSPS. Setting up intakes was frustrating because I had to spend numerous hours trying to find people to go on intakes with me. Then there were times when people had to cancel or they just were not there when we showed up. Some how the company always puts the blame on their clinicians for the number of no shows/ cancellations. Supervision meetings consisted of having a talk with parents about no shows/ cancellations and to me that was extremely wrong. I to would work ten hours and also only receive pay for two. I was extremely frustrated at the fact that we were not paid for supervision meetings or trainings. I think everyone who works for this company works hard. I think that this company survives off of the sweat of its workers. There were days that I went in at 8:00 and came home by 6;00 or 7:00 and was only paid for two hours. I also did not feel supported in any way by this company... However I do miss my clients as well as the great clinicians that I had the chance to work with. \r
Oh and by the way I was told on my last day that I was being let go due to the number of ""no shows/ cancellations"" really as if I had any control over this. I worked hard, kept in touch with my clients and most of the time the no shows/cancellations were NOT MINE!!!
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