Professional Summary: Results-driven Social Work and Mental Health Professional seeking to contribute expertise in patient relations, comprehensive consultative services as well as a host of relevant therapeutic skills. Eager to apply this specialized skill set toward actively collaborating with a dynamic organization in providing outstanding therapeutic services.

  Experience in participating with multi disciplinary teams to coordinate patient care and services.

  Capable and highly effective in numerous team leader functions as well as staff development; includes solid experience in training, mentoring and supervising MSW and BSW interns.

  Competent leader and mentor who is able to create a team environment, including building collaborative relationships, training peers to perform at maximum efficiency, and the capacity to form cross-functional coalitions in order to ensure knowledge is shared across departmental lines.

  Capable of working under extremely high-pressure conditions with a wide array of patients with various mental disorders.

  Proven ability to adapt and develop necessary skills to diverse organization needs.

  Technology proficient and savvy in numerous platforms and applications.

  Demonstrate dynamic leadership qualities and strong communication skills by actively contributing to clinical care meetings and delivering comprehensive strategies.

  Implement numerous protocols and policies with the purpose of identifying and resolving relevant patient issues in a proactive manner.

  Skilled at managing multiple patient caseloads and leading teams in cross-functional, concerted efforts to increase departmental productivity.

  Effectively work with patients of all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.

  Consistently focus on ensuring development of high-standard delivery methodologies.

  Effectively manages large caseloads as well as provide in-depth documentation.

  Skilled at communicating and working cross-functionally in order to ensure knowledge sharing is prevalent between departmental lines when appropriate and practice utmost patient confidentiality.

  Masters of Social Work - MSW, San Diego State University

  License Clinical Social Worker (California)

  Bachelor of Arts Psychology, San Diego State University

Mental health Clinician, Father Joe s Villages (fka St. Vincent de Paul) PRESENT

Senior Psychiatric Social Worker, San Diego County Psychiatric Hospital 2006-2011

Care Advocate, U.S. Behavioral Health Plan of California 2002-2005

Rehabilitation Therapist, Telecare 1992-2002