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Joy & Laughter Developmental Therapy Reviews

3.4

63% would recommend to a friend

(18 total reviews)
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Jennifer Davis

71% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Joy & Laughter Developmental Therapy has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 18 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Joy & Laughter Developmental Therapy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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18 reviews
1.0
1 Apr 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Liked working with the kids and their families, salary with benefits were available, provided CEU opportunities, Large facility, interns they choose are always amazing

Cons

-Toxic, fear-based work environment stemming from CEO -Lies told to pit various teams (therapist, admin, billing) against each other; lies are spread about former employees to create scapegoats for issues the executive team are actually responsible for-very unprofessional -Protocols always changing with no announcement and no track changes on digital copy. When you ask about protocol changes, you are gaslit that the protocol was always that way. Constantly need to be screenshotting information to catch executive members being untruthful -Decreased flexibility of taking personal time off -Decreased time for document writeups -Decreased overall control of schedule; micromanagement of your schedule -Decreased mentorship and support because all clinical management staff has left -Will be given interns without your consent or confirmation; intern program is always horribly mismanaged and expectations are never communicated before hand - Turnover is high (burnout is common due to all above reasons) and when people leave, positions are often combined. Staff are asked to do more with no changes in pay and little to no recognition from higher management -WISE Management principles (Survival strategies, inc) are used

1.0
23 Nov 2022

Toxic work environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Easy job to get early in your career

Cons

Constant turnover of administrative and clinical staff, executive team creates toxic work environments, manipulative of people starting their careers.

2.0
2 Oct 2021

Disappointing

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible with time off for personal appointments - Satisfying to work with children - Decent work hours

Cons

- Very high turnover of staff - Often felt replaceable - Employee burnout - Extra duties are added but not reflected in pay - Micromanagement - Very few paid holidays

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Joy & Laughter Developmental Therapy Response
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Thank you for your suggestions and feedback. I would love it if you would contact me directly to provide any specific feedback that would help us improve in the future. In the meantime, I wanted to address a few of your concerns here. After a recent staff survey of things we should be working on this year, we have already started to take steps to help staff feel more appreciated. While as a company we already try to do a lot, we understand that everyone feels appreciated in different ways so we are trying to get more feedback on how our current staff wants to be appreciated. A full list of holidays is on the job offer and in the employee handbook which is agreed on prior to employment, while we currently offer 6 paid days off per year staff are welcome to use their own paid time off to take additional days off, and we are always flexible with people's personal time off requests. Since we provide medical services to try to make sessions available to families who need them. As a growing company, the exact details of day-to-day operations may vary. While pay does not go up or down as individual tasks are added, subtracted, or changed we do have various levels in the company including leads, managers, and directors which do allow for growth in pay since these roles do require significantly increased levels of work. We also offer monthly bonuses to account for the additional work people are doing in their posts.
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