Medical Consultant - Psychologist Resume Trenton, New Jersey - Hire IT People

SKILLS:

Foreign Language: Conversant (not bilingual) in Spanish

Computer Skills: Microsoft Word & Microsoft PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Trenton, New Jersey

Medical Consultant - Psychologist

Responsibilities:

Reviewed medical evidence to determine eligibility for Title II & Title XVI benefits & applicability to the Social Security Disability policy.
Provided mental health & substance abuse services in a private practice to teenage & adult patients.
Pursued in-network relationships with insurance providers.
Provided psychological testing & interventions to active service members on active duty in varying states of deployment.
Completed risk assessments for involuntary inpatient psychiatric patients.
Provided psychological treatment for college students seeking mental health treatment.
Completed New Jersey psychiatric screening documents.
Organized & delivered substance abuse & mental health assessment/treatment services to children, adolescents & adults in: residential substance abuse/dual-diagnosis treatment centers, community agencies, senior citizen programs, welfare programs, hospital clinics & inner city high schools.
Negotiated & pre-certified treatment stays & level of care with managed care & Medicaid/Medicare insurance providers.
Completed personality assessments of prospective employees for corporate account holders & gave relevant feedback to HR Managers to assist in personnel decisions.

Confidential

Human Resources Assistant

Responsibilities:

Developed hiring process with the management team that ensured position descriptions & other employment processes were consistent with federal laws.
Created & ensured salary administration procedures with the managerial staff.
Collaborated with managers & developed a strategic plan for a not-for-profit disability services agency.
Supervised personal care assistants hired to assist training session attendees with disabilities.
Negotiated contracts with trainers for two advocacy training programs for persons with disabilities & monitored the program budget constraints.
Developed & administered an affordable housing program.
Negotiated mortgages with lenders for clients & supervised housing program staff.
Assumed charge person role in a psychiatric screening center.

Confidential

Community Outreach Coordinator

Responsibilities:

Provided new employee orientations.
Identified staff training needs & provided managers with new hire process training.
Facilitated psycho-educational, addiction &mental health trainings in multiple treatment settings.
Facilitated self-advocacy trainings for people with disabilities.
Developed & delivered homeownership trainings.
Designed & provided domestic violence training for Confidential residence life staff.
Created & delivered presentations to families of persons with mental illness & disabilities on estate planning & future care planning to ensure the long-term care of their loved one.
Performance Improvement

Confidential

Community Educator

Responsibilities:

Served as chair of the safety committee &monitored employee & consumer injuries.
Ensured compliance with state regulations including: daily operations, staffing patterns, residential programming & documentation & safety compliance for a not-for-profit agency.
Maintained the employee training database & ensured compliance with continuing education requirements.

Project Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Decreasing The Incidence of Malingering Among Segregated Youth In a Correctional Enviroment: A Peformance Improvement Project.