Social Worker Mental Health

Denise Lynn Belt

909-***-**** *******@*****.***

Experience

Social Worker July 2021 – August 2023

Innovage

●Develops a collaborative relationship with internal and external partners. Utilizes a solution-oriented perspective to facilitate resolution of participant needs.

●Acts as a primary liaison between the participant/family and the IDT to facilitate communication.

●Facilitates, mediates, and documents participant care conferences, family meetings and facility partnership meetings.

●Actively and assertively manages respite and hospital length of stay. Collaborates with participants, caregivers, facilities, and the IDT to ensure clear communication regarding participant status and plan.

●Works in collaboration with hospital discharge planners, primary care, IDT, families, and caregivers regarding participant’s disposition from the hospital. Partners with the InnovAge Mental Health Team when hospitalization is psychiatric.

●Provides referrals to and coordinates assessments with contracted facilities. Supports the participants in the tour and move planning process as clinically indicated.

●Partners with the Innovage Medicaid Department to assist the participant in keeping resources within the guidelines of Medicaid eligibility and supports the recertification process.

●Advises the participant or financially responsible party about housing co-pays and notifies the Medicaid department of the need to generate a Supportive Housing Form.

●Supports the inter-center transfer process for participants who move between catchment areas, relaying participant history and care plan issues to the receiving social worker.

●Provides referral support to community resources and participates in inter-agency coordination of care.

●Proactively supports the participant grievance process, involving the Center Director in all potential voluntary disenrollments due to dissatisfaction.

●Assists participants who are disenrolling with transition to outside services, including timely referral back to the single entry point and completion of disenrollment paperwork.

●Maintains accurate and timely documentation and paperwork including participants’ electronic medical records according to policies and procedures.

●Attends and actively participates in IDT meetings, Social Services department meetings, Cross Sites and Annual Competencies.

●Provides on-call support after hours as assigned.

Interim Housing Case Manager III January 2020 – December 2020

PATH (People Assisting The Homeless), Placentia Shelter

●Generate appeal letters for clients and providers when requests for housing applications and benefits are denied

●Provide interventions and linkage for on-call crisis hotline

●Case manage individuals experiencing homelessness including harm reduction practices, assessment of client’s housing needs, motivational interviewing/counseling, linking clients to community resources such as health services, mental health, and housing services

●Effectively and Independently complete tasks under little or no supervision

●Document client data in Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) while maintaining highly organized files for each client

Transitional Social Worker December 2018 – December 2019

David and Margaret, Family and Children's Services

●Assist clients with developing a transitional living plan and actively pursue the goals of their transitional living plan. Revise this plan as needed and inform the County Program Manager of changes affecting their address, living circumstances, education, career, and training programs.

●Provide clients with various services from DCFS and other community resources. Conduct weekly face-to-face sessions with each client and help ensure the following through with their transitional living plan. Services provided during these faces to face sessions include counseling, life/job coaching, case management, crisis intervention/management, and/or psycho education.

●Ensure the client is working toward employment and/or attending school. Addresses with client’s barriers the participant may have and/or experiencing to accomplishing the above.

●Prepare a wide range of documents-standardized forms, legal documents, and court reports, written reports, correspondence, referrals and Mental Health Screenings (MHST).

Social Service Supervisor Practitioner March 2010 – March 2017

Department of Children and Family Service (Georgia)

●Intake

●Organize, direct, and supervise the work of 6 intake screeners

●Managed 6 screeners for the Intake Center for Children.

●Viewed the actual allegations called in against the families.

●Assessed the allegations and determined where we were going to send the complaint

●Responsible for CPS and Aps (after hours)

●Completed death notifications for the county

Professional strengths: I am well organized, efficient and manage time well. I had designed my workflow to serve both my clients and to minimize mistakes. I excel at phone inquiries and customer service. I learn quickly and retain new knowledge easily. I enjoy working as part of a team and constantly seek to improve my work.

Principal tasks: Assigned ICD-9 and CPT codes to medical services and diagnoses. Contact physicians when diagnostic information is missing to clarify diagnosis. Input demographics, charges, payment into IDX system. Heavy follow up, collections, and resubmitted claims.

Education

Clark Atlanta university

MSW May 2010

California state university

BSW June 2008

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