Khadra Clayborn

• Serve as full time social worker/case manager for Acute Inpatient Rehab
• Conducted thorough assessments of client strengths and needs in order to provide tailored recommendations for individualized treatment plans.
• Scheduled and facilitated family meetings
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop coordinated care plans that addressed clients'' complex needs holistically and barriers to return home safely.
• Improved client outcomes by developing comprehensive case plans and coordinating services with community partners.
• Developed strong relationships with community organizations in order to better serve clients'' needs within their local area.
• Collaborated with insurance companies for extensions of stay when patients needed additional rehab.
• Increased access to resources by connecting clients to appropriate financial, housing, medical, and caregiving services.
• Referred clients to appropriate team members, community agencies, and organizations to meet treatment needs.
• Coordinated with mental health professionals or medical providers to address any concerns related to clients'' psychological or physical wellbeing.
• Worked with patients and families to adjust to major loss/changes after strokes, multiple major trauma, amputations, as well as other debilitating diagnosis
• Educate patients and families on stages of grief, stages of disease progression and/or disease recovery and steps they can take toward improving patient's progress
• Work closely with hospital chaplains when patients need extra support
• Previously received referrals to help patients at Cancer Center where I conducted psychosocial assessments and provided patients with resources such as transportation to appointments, completing applications to receive grants and other monies to assist in cancer treatment and needs at home, as well as help them with processing diagnosis, when to tell others, and other concerns
• Worked as hospital social worker in Acute Care at times doing initial assessments and setting up services/equipment for patients to discharge home safely
• Made reports to Child Protective Services and Adult Protective Services.
• Mentored new social workers entering field by sharing knowledge of best practices in case management and service coordination.

Family Health Center, February 2016 to April 2016

• Training as healthcare case manager in clinical setting.
• Observed Behavioral Health Social Worker completing assessments involving integrative care
• Completed Case Management with 80 refugees, immigrants, and low-income populations.
• Attended Executive Staff and Board of Governors meetings

Frankfort Regional Medical Center & Regis Woods, August 2015 to December 2015

• Trained as medical social worker in hospital and nursing home settings.
• Assessed 20 patients for distress using Cancer Distress Screening Tool
• Assessed 35 patients for depression using PHQ-9
• Assessed 35 patients for cognitive ability using BIMS
• Updated hospital resource/referral manual
• Provided support to patients and families in CCU
• Provided support to patients and families experiencing overdoses, life-threatening illnesses, attempted suicides, end-of-life experiences.

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, January 2015 to April 2015

• Completed brief therapy, psychosocial assessments, and case management at cancer support organization.
• Contacted patients and assessed their needs for services and supports
• Assisted clients with case management
• Completed advocacy work including contacting representative regarding Pediatric Cancer Research Fund Bill, which passed.

Coordinated with and received social work supervision at Gilda's Club.

Seven Counties Services Inc., August 2014 to December 2014

Oriented to mental health services at county-based community mental health organization.

• Observed and assisted in client assessments as well as continuous client care up to discharge
• Observed various therapeutic groups
• Attended treatment team planning sessions as well as community meetings where several organizations collaborated for best care of clients
• Interviewed therapists regarding their experiences and best practices