Pros
Paid an okay salary Work from home They train you up and depending on.l how lucky you are, if you have a good manager you’ll get some sort of clinical support.
Cons
7-8 months in and you’ll hate your life. You work throughout the day and even over work by 1-2 hours a day to make sure your workload is just about manageable. Your workload is ever growing without any stopping in sight. Patients do not move to shared care after the 3 months they mentioned you’re looking at 5-6 months in at least. As patient are mainly NHS, they milk the system and try to stay on your records for longer. Patients do not get taught boundaries. They just contact and expect everything there and now. Rude behaviour and threatening behaviour from patients are allowed and accepted. When you bring this forward it gets ignored and you will have to let go of any self respect you have to carry on working there. Patients complain over every inconvenience even though they’re NHS patients and it’s a free service!! You get told you’ll only do nhs to start with then slowly overtime you get private patients which is not fair on them to have unexperienced staff doing their assessments and titrations. Reception do not set expectations and will want you just pander to patients. You’ll be fully booked for at least 2 weeks but then asked to move an appointment forward!!!! Impossible workload. Each patient takes 20 mins to complete MINIMUM (some patients talk for 20mins not including prescription time and documentation) then you’re expected to do 2-3 assessments a day in addition to your follow ups. 2-3 assessments = 4-6hrs a day PLUS 14 people to follow up which equals 14x20mins=280mins=4 hrs 40 mins. So 8.5-10.5hrs of the day is needed without breaks to complete a normal days work. When you book annual leave you come back to a tonne of urgent tasks. Mental health takes a back seat and you’ll find yourself taking it out on your family which is not fair. Gifted days are only for people that are working on that day. If you all do well and they decide you all get a Friday gifted day off, if you don’t work a Friday you don’t get anything nor does it go on an allowance for you to use later. Completely absurd that this is okay to do. Only reason I’ve stayed is because I can’t afford to pay myself out. Staying here until I no longer have to pay out. Don’t bother coming here. You’ll even hate the word ADHD by the end of it. They have a nice exterior which is hiding a fire pit waiting for you to fall inside and be trapped.