Bobby Smith
Vestal,NY
Summary
Service-focused Behavior Specialist dedicated to helping clients integrate and improve wellbeing. Clear communicator supportive of individual and family needs. Strong commitment to advocacy and skill-building.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Regional Director Of Security
All Star Security
01.2020 - Current
- Monitored staff performance by actively engaging in and observing day-to-day activities.
- Promoted company by giving exciting and dynamic presentations to customers.
- Represented company at various national and global events.
- Trained new employees on proper protocols and customer service standards.
- Assisted in recruiting, hiring and training of team members.
- Recruited, hired and trained initial personnel, working to establish key internal functions and outline scope of positions for new organization.
Consumer Directed Personal Assistant
Maxim Healthcare
01.2020 - Current
- Provided general administrative support including scheduling meetings, making travel arrangements and managing documentation.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Reported unusual or urgent circumstances in patients' condition or environment immediately to nurse supervisor.
Self Direct Support Mental Health OPWDD
Self Direction Program NYS
03.2017 - 03.2022
- Cleaned and prepared rooms between patients, using aseptic technique to prevent infections and cross-contamination
- Assisted patients with mobility needs, including moving to and from beds, organizing wheelchairs and preparing assistive devices
- Obtained biological specimens for ordered tests and prepared for laboratory transport
- Cared for clients with diagnoses such as respiratory failure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease and muscular dystrophy
- Offered immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care
- Maintained clean, safe and well-organized patient environment
- Assisted disabled clients in any way necessary to facilitate independence and well-being
- Supported patients by identifying and addressing mental health challenges
- Provided excellent service to patients through personable communication
Behavioral Health Technician/Crisis Team Member
Northport VA Medical Center
08.2019 - 04.2020
- Worked collaboratively with other mental health professionals to provide consistent care and minimize diversion
- Conducted client rounds every 15mins, 30mins, hour to check on residents
- Performed client intake procedures according to internal standards for all new admissions
- Completed documentation for every incident and forwarded to correct personnel for review
- Counseled and mentored clients on substance use and life choices
- Searched resident belongings prior to and during stays
- Charted on each patient daily
- Drew blood work
- EKG
- Collected blood samples using vacutainer tubes, tourniquets, syringes, butterfly needles, and straight needles
- Performed bedside tests like bleeding time tests and entered results into patient charts
Psychiatric Technician
Brunswick Hall Psychiatric Hospital
03.2013 - 04.2017
- Charted on each patient daily
- Took and monitored vital signs, administered medications and managed patient behavior
- Obtained blood specimens by performing punctures and finger sticks 5 times per day
- Rounding
- Charted
- Counseled and mentored clients on substance use and life choices
- Vitals
- Helped patients effectively manage routine bathing, grooming and other hygiene needs
- Engaged in housekeeping tasks by replacing linens and cleaning and sanitizing patient rooms
- Assisted patients with mobility needs, including moving to and from beds, organizing wheelchairs and preparing assistive devices
Day Program Specialist
Head injury Association
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Providing direct care to individuals Helping individuals with daily activities an goals To provide Recreational activities throughout home an community
- Gathered dietary information, assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives and support wellness goals
- Evaluated patients to identify and address wounds, behavioral concerns and medically-relevant symptoms
- Helped patients effectively manage routine bathing, grooming and other hygiene needs
- Assisted patients with mobility needs, including moving to and from beds, organizing wheelchairs and preparing devices
Security Officer
Professional Security Consultants
01.2011 - 01.2015
- Loss Prevention/Mall Cop/Front desk w Providing a safe environment,monitoring shoppers
- Operated detecting devices to screen individuals and prevent passage of prohibited articles into restricted areas
- Performed surveillance of suspects using binoculars, cameras and camcorders
- Evaluated function, performance and design compliance of every product against design standards and customer needs
- Orchestrated successful conferences, including associated travel for all speakers and attendees, facilities and support services
- Recorded and filed employee benefit, salary and annual evaluation information while maintaining strict confidentiality to protect sensitive data
- Scanned documents and saved in database to keep records of essential organizational information
- Maintained safety by quickly responding to alarms and investigating disturbances
- Inspected parking lot to verify vehicles were properly parked and displayed parking permits
- Challenged suspicious individuals accessing restricted areas to prevent unauthorized entry
- Screened guests entering premises using X-ray machines
Education
High School Diploma -
Bay Shore Senior High School
Bay Shore, NY2010
Skills
- Mental health support
- BLS certified
- Drawing blood
- Feeding assistance expert
- Documenting behaviors
- Inpatient care
- Transporting patients
- Dementia and Alzheimer's knowledge
- Patient management
- Responding to emergencies
- Measuring bodily fluids
- Companionship and emotional support
- Supporting personal needs
- Direct patient care
- Recording vital signs
- Outpatient care
- Computer literate
- CPR/First Aid Certified
- Wound care specialist
- Medication administration
- 12-lead EKG monitoring
- Performing EKGs
- Hospice and palliative care
- Healthy meal preparation
- Feeding assistance
- Professional bedside manner
- Mobility assistance aptitude
- Qualified in patient transport
- Infection control and aseptic procedures
- Charting and clinical documentation
- Wound care maintenance
- Patient confidentiality
- Blood specimen storage
- Quality control guidelines
- Detail-oriented
- Infection control
- Sample and specimen collection
- Medical Records Management
- Muscle performance
- Therapeutic exercises
- Strengthening
- Physical therapy support
- Disease prevention and intervention specialist
- Trauma recovery
- Foley catheter insertion/removal
- Hospice philosophy understanding
- Neurology awareness
- Emergency care
- Interactive communication skills
- Systems monitoring
- Direct patient care
- Patient privacy
- Case management
- Patient-focused care
- Chronic disease management
- Medication reminders
- Mobility support
- Grooming assistance
- Meal preparation
- Companionship skills
- Preventative care
- System administration
- Production control
- Training program design
- Chauffeuring
- Light cleaning
- Cooking meals
- Bed transfers
- Written and verbal communication
- Infectious disease protocols
- Palliative care
- Patient bathing and grooming
- Relationship building
- Observing responses
- Conducting intakes
- Patient assessments
- Preventive skin care
- Care summaries
- Emergency room care
- Patient care oversight
- Patient care and physical therapy
- First aid and safety
- Behavioral management
- Community integration
- Regulatory compliance
- State regulations knowledge
- Disaster recovery
- Patient assessment
- Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLD) certification
- Physical assessments
- Speech recognition
- Palliative care awareness
- Policy and program development
- Wound care
- Bloodborne Pathogen training
- Hoyer lift experience
- Knowledge of different Patient lifts
- Mobility training
- Patient shielding techniques
- Team building
- Hospitality services
- Problem resolution
- Patient evaluations
- Goal development
- Progress monitoring
- Crisis intervention
- Case documentation
- Facilitating counseling sessions
- Facilitating counseling
- Community resources
- Substance abuse therapy
- Recovery and rehabilitation
- Preventing Workplace Violence seminar
- Mental health treatment programming
- Domestic violence prevention
- Family
- Care plan assessment
- Patient care
- Childcare experience
- Progress documentation
- Clinical quality program standards
- Finger sticks
- Showered patients
- Shaved patients
Affiliations
- Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education
- 1199 Union worker
- Brookhaven Fire Department
Timeline
Regional Director Of Security
All Star Security
01.2020 - Current
Consumer Directed Personal Assistant
Maxim Healthcare
01.2020 - Current
Behavioral Health Technician/Crisis Team Member
Northport VA Medical Center
08.2019 - 04.2020
Self Direct Support Mental Health OPWDD
Self Direction Program NYS
03.2017 - 03.2022
Day Program Specialist
Head injury Association
01.2015 - 01.2016
Psychiatric Technician
Brunswick Hall Psychiatric Hospital
03.2013 - 04.2017
Security Officer
Professional Security Consultants
01.2011 - 01.2015
High School Diploma -
Bay Shore Senior High School
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