Terrible - werkgeversreview RBT - Registered Behavior Technician bij Comprehensive Autism Partnership

Flexible hours and amazing coworkers

Minimal benefits available for full or part time

- High pay rate IF you have prior experience and negotiate properly. Don't lowball it. - Some BCBA's are good. - If you only care about the clients and making a difference, you will be and that's highly rewarding. - If you don't have a client or they call out, you can still cover for a different client and get paid your direct rate or you can do tasks related to clients and get paid $18/hr. Also have the option of getting paid a "non-billable" rate of $15/hr if you show up early before your clients session starts. - Flexible with your schedule if you go to school. - Theres "Christmas Break," meaning that the entire week is off, not just Christmas (unpaid, except for Christmas Day--have the option of working that week if there are clients). - Given one floating holiday.

I'll break down the cons by category: Management: - Extremely disorganized and disheveled. Because of the high turnover rate, supervisors/BCBA's are often direct with clients, and don't have the time to properly train RBTs on new clients or clients that you're covering for. Or, they're too busy and overwhelmed with other tasks or expect you to know it all. They do not set you up for success (only sometimes). Lack support for RBTs. - Favoritism is HIGH at this company. An RBT that they favor can get away with small things that other RBTs would get penalized for (ex: showing up late, emergency call-outs, etc). This in turn adds to the unhealthy work environment and tension between RBTs (I'll get into that later). - It's not uncommon to get fired out of the blue by CAP, either. Even if its over something small/minimal. Instead of giving you feedback on how to improve or explaining what you're doing wrong, they can (or will if they don't like you) fire you without a 2 week notice, whether you're on probation or not. - They clearly don't care about your well-being. They only care about you showing up for the job and doing what they expect of you, and to know their expectations without them telling you. This is especially true for the CEO, as she barely interacts with RBTs, gives minimal federal days off, and no mental health days. Its all about product and output, even if it costs you your mental health and well-being. It's all about "routine and structure," for the clients and not disrupting it, which I understand to an extent, but what about the RBT's genuine health too? Where's the consideration about the QUALITY of care vs quantity? - You always need a paper trail of discussions/events at CAP, otherwise it never happened. Work Environment: - Always short-staffed because they don't hire the right people and fire people off the bat. Leads to burnout for everyone, including the BCBAs/supervisors. - Will be put on a random client's schedule without knowing anything about the client due to being short-staffed. Not properly trained either prior or during at times. Also leads to burnout for RBTs. - Very clique-like. You're either in a group, or you're by yourself with the other outsiders. - GOSSIP IS ALWAYS HIGH HERE. It's mainly all women, and while some RBT's are more mature than others, many are catty. - If you're a new RBT starting here, you're immediately judged based on how "good" of an RBT you are (ex: being able to implement DTT properly, using behavioral momentum, pairing, etc) and if you're not, you will be talked about and not liked until you can prove yourself to them. Honestly, the same goes for some BCBAs as well. Again, not ALL RBTs are like this, but the majority are. - You can't really trust your coworkers 100%, except for certain people. You never know who's gonna tell who, including to management. - Because of the blatant favoritism this company has, this creates even more gossip about certain RBTs and creates tension. Some RBT's even feel and act "superior" than others because of this. Overall Compensation Package: - WEAK. Each year, you're only granted 30 hours of PTO. AND YOU CANNOT ACCRUE IT. - Sick leave is accrued 1 hour for every 40 hours worked. Many RBT's only work 9am-3pm, as there are only certain clients who stay till 5pm. Majority are done at 3pm. Meaning, each work week is only 36 hours. - Not all federal holiday's are off. The only ones are New Year's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day. - If you take off a day, no matter what the reasoning is besides being sick, PTO MUST be used BEFORE sick leave. You can't choose between using sick leave or PTO. You can only choose if you're sick, however, you HAVE to email them and let them know that you want to use sick leave instead of PTO, otherwise they will sneakily use your PTO. - THIS IS IMPORTANT: If you have used up all your PTO and sick leave, you are ONLY allowed 5 days of unpaid leave. This is according to CAP policy. - NO LUNCH BREAK, UNLESS YOU ASK FOR IT. 30 minutes, unpaid. You will be looked down upon if you do take the 30 minute break by the BCBA/supervisor. None of the RBTs take it because of those reasons. In Conclusion: - The fact that there are this many cons, is a con itself. Just don't work here unless you're extremely desperate and need the money.