Deborah Smith
Lynchburg,VA
Summary
Skilled Care Provider assisting elderly, convalescents, or persons with disabilities with daily living activities in-home or within care facility. Keep house by making beds, doing laundry, washing dishes and preparing meals. Advise families and healthcare team regarding health concerns, nutrition, cleanliness and household activities. Empathetic Care Worker with sensitive and compassionate approach to cultivating trusting, stimulating and varied lifestyle for residents. Offers enhanced care with flexible learning approach for patients. Experience in hospital and in-home settings providing guidance and encouragement to patients through physical and emotional support.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Patient Caregiver
Centra Health
11.2021 - Current
- Built strong relationships with clients to deliver emotional support and companionship.
- Engaged patients in meaningful conversation, socialization, and activity while providing personal care assistance.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Supported clients with mental support and physical activities to accomplish quality of life and sustain needs.
- Provided safe mobility support to help patients move around personal and public spaces.
- Assisted clients with daily living needs to maintain self-esteem and general wellness.
- Recognized and reported abnormalities or changes in patients' health status to case manager.
- Turned and positioned bedbound patients to prevent bedsores and maintain comfort levels.
- Monitored clients' overall health and well-being and noted significant changes.
- Built and maintained rapport with clients and family members to facilitate trusting caregiver relationship.
- Provided one-on-one service to over hundred patients
Administrative Director
Bridging the Gap
04.2020 - Current
- Direct all activities of a community health outreach nonprofit
- Coordinate travel, itineraries and scheduling
- Manage marketing and social media efforts
- Manage operations and finance
- Support call center and client registration and member management
- Attend and provide logistics for community health events and functions, and provide direct health outreach, resource referrals, screenings, wellness education and health checks in multiple communities state to state.
- Managed daily office operations, negotiated contracts, managed vendor relations and acted as primary liaison with outside organizations.
- Established workflow processes, monitored daily productivity, and implemented modifications to improve overall performance of personnel.
- Led, directed, managed and mentored 5 administrative staff members
Health Consultant
Smith Consultancy
04.2020 - 09.2021
- Provide various health related services to different companies including health research, home care, and medical administration
- Clients include Global Fund for Girls, Virtua and individuals.
- Developed and implemented communication strategies and resources to achieve public health objectives.
- Conducted brief, solution-focused behavioral interventions with active development of behavioral change planning for patients referred to Behavioral Health by medical providers.
- Fostered smooth interface between medicine and specialized mental and behavioral health care throughout organization.
Home Aide
Bridgeway Rehabilitation
01.2014 - 04.2020
- Provided direct personal care and administrative services to clients.
- Assisted with end-of-life care.
- Trained new staff members on best practices for home health care.
- Assisted clients with living independently through skill-building and mentoring in areas such as housekeeping adaptations and preparation of healthy meals.
- Supported families through difficult times by offering emotional support and education on important care tasks.
Youth Aide
Learning Child Center
01.2013 - 12.2014
- Coordinated food, activities and recreational services for children
- Handled light administration
- Prepared food, meals and nutrition tracking for childcare center with 60 children ages 0-3 years old.
Education
Master of Science - Public Health
Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA05.2024
Skills
- HIPAA Compliance
- Progress Documentation
- Incident Reporting
- Documentation
- Patient Companionship
- Behavioral Management
- Care Plan Adherence
- Mobility Assistance
- PPE Usage
Accomplishments
Won the Servants Heart award
Won the Servant Leader award
Resume
Health Education, Customer Service, Health Outreach, Health Care, Health Logistics, Wellness Checks, Administration, Operations, Management, Administrative Director, Bridging the Gap, VA, 04/01/20, present, Direct all activities of a community health outreach nonprofit., Coordinate travel, itineraries and scheduling., Manage marketing and social media efforts., Manage operations and finance., Support call center and client registration and member management., Attend and provide logistics for community health events and functions, and provide direct health outreach, resource referrals, screenings, wellness education and health checks in multiple communities state to state., Home Aide, Bridgeway Rehabilitation, NJ, 01/01/14, 04/01/20, Manage health care, dietary needs and recreation for older adult clients in a rehabilitation center., Manage client administrative needs including community coordination, family coordination, medical administration and hygiene and coordination., Coordinate client nutritional needs including the preparation of client feeding and medical administration schedules., Prepare and distribute meals and track client food consumption., Health Consultant, Smith Consultancy, NJ, 04/01/20, present, Provide various health related services to different companies including health research, home care, and medical administration., Clients include Global Fund for Girls, Virtua and individuals., Youth Aide, Learning Child Center, NJ, 01/01/13, 12/01/14, Coordinated food, activities and recreational services for children., Handled light administration., Prepared food, meals and nutrition tracking for childcare center with 60 children ages 0-3 years old., Patient Caregiver, Centra Health, Lynchburg, VA, 2021, present, Partners with professional nurses to provide utmost care to mentally disabled patients., Assists with patient care needs., Maintaining continuous observation of patients in order to keep the patient from harm., Education, LIBERTY UNIVERSITY, Lynchburg, VA, B.A Public Health, Community Health Outreach, 05/01/21, LIBERTY UNIVERSITY, Lynchburg, VA, M.A Public Health, in progress, Personal Interests, Reading various genres of books, Writing comics and novels, Crafting: clay sculpting, shoe designs, drawing, and mechanical design, Community Outreach projects, Dancing in many different cultures, Tammea Tyler, CEO, Global Fund for Girls, globalfundforgirls@gmail.com, (917) 547-2500, Jodi Walton III, President, Bridging the Gap Urban Ministries, jjwalton@liberty.edu, (434) 229-3939, John Bender, Dietary Supervisor, Bridgeway Senior Care & Rehabilitation, (908) 660-4435
Custom Sneaker design
Personalized sneaker patterns crafted onto many different styles of sneakers
Timeline
Patient Caregiver
Centra Health
11.2021 - Current
Administrative Director
Bridging the Gap
04.2020 - Current
Health Consultant
Smith Consultancy
04.2020 - 09.2021
Home Aide
Bridgeway Rehabilitation
01.2014 - 04.2020
Youth Aide
Learning Child Center
01.2013 - 12.2014
Master of Science - Public Health
Liberty University