SANDRA HAXTON
**** ******** **** **** ******, FL 32720 321-***-**** ***************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
To secure an administrative assistant position in an Assisted Living Facility.
EXPERIENCE
Receptionist/Administrative Assistant
Blue Palms Senior Living Facility, Deland, Florida Oct. 2023 – Aug. 2024
Receptionist/Administrative Assistant to the Nurse Administrator of the Assisted Living Facility. Duties included assisting her in setting up systems to ensure that the health and well-being needs of the residents were being met. Helped create elopement policies, admission/discharge log, cleaning and laundry schedules, and other policies and procedures. Followed up to implement the systems. Also worked with the residents and family members directly and through the Resident’s Council to address their issues and concerns.
Receptionist/Front Desk
Career Source Central Florida/Experience Works, Leesburg, Florida Oct. 2014 – Aug. 2016
Managed a very active front desk servicing the public, with as many as 150 people a day utilizing the facility. The first greeter for all customers that entered the facility, answered phones, and answered general questions concerning DCF benefits or reemployment.
Writer Sept. 2007 – Present
Self-Employed
Clients have included the Georgia Department of Corrections, Clark Atlanta University’s Center for Cancer Research and the National Black Caucus of State Legislators. Wrote successful grants for Georgia Department of Corrections, Clark Atlanta University and Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services. Have been published in local magazines and am presently working on screenplays.
Program Director
Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services, Clearwater, Florida Apr. 2004 – July, 2007
Succeeded in replicating a mentoring program from New York Youth at Risk for pregnant
Teens and teen moms. Assisted in writing grants that funded the program. Implemented
And managed the program. Recruited, trained and managed over 50 mentor volunteers.
Insurance Adjuster
Travelers Insurance Company, West Palm Beach, Florida Dec. 1991 – Mar, 2004
Property and Casualty insurance adjuster for several companies, including Gallagher
Bassett, Travelers Insurance, St. Paul Casualty, Hartford and Direct Auto Insurance
Legal Secretary/Paralegal
Greenberg, Traurig, Miami, Florida July 1981 – July, 1991
Legal secretary for several law firms, including Blackwell, Walker & Gray; Matthews,
Osborne; and Greenberg, Traurig
EDUCATION
ALF Core Training Program, USF July, 2024)
(Sitting for CORE Test on 8/24/24)
One Spirit Seminary School, Manhattan, NY 2016 – 2018
Ordained as an Interfaith/Interspiritual Minister
Georgia Perimeter College, Decatur, Georgia 2012
Completed approximately 90 credit hours towards a liberal arts degree