Shelley Spector
Houston,Texas
Summary
Passionate social worker with commitment to supporting clients in all aspects of cases. Excellent communication and relationship building skills with diverse audiences. Friendly and engaging with strong team collaboration abilities.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Independent Living Donor Advocate, Transplant Social Worker
The Living Bank
Houston, TX
04.2014 - 11.2023
- Manage team of social workers
- Provide living donor advocate services and transplant social work services to multiple transplant centers in the Texas Medical Center and around the country in person and through Telehealth.
Home Study Social Worker, Infant Adoption
Catholic Charities
11.2014 - 06.2015
- Conduct home study interviews with prospective adoptive parents
- Complete home study report.
Transplant Social Worker
The Methodist Hospital
09.2007 - 03.2014
- Conduct pre-transplant psychosocial assessments, refer to community resources, and facilitate discharge plans pre and post transplant
- Participate in weekly medical review board
- Conduct liver transplant support group
- Teach transplant education classes
- Perform ongoing research in the area of psychosocial risk for liver transplant patients.
Women’s Services Social Worker (2003 – 2007)
Memorial Hermann Hospital
- Provide resources and emotional support to pregnant women and adolescents including those with high risk pregnancies, HIV, homelessness, mental illness, substance abuse, and domestic violence
- Perform psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, resource referrals, CPS referrals
- Conduct ante-partum support group.
Neonatal Social Worker (1997 – 2003)
Memorial Hermann Hospital
- Provide resources and emotional support to parents and families coping with the birth of a medically fragile infant
- Perform psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, grief counseling, resource referrals, and CPS referrals
- Conduct weekly support group.
Social Work Intern (1995 - 1996)
Communities in Schools, Northbrook High School
- Provide resources and emotional support to 'at risk' high school students
- Counseling, resource referrals, home visits.
Shock Trauma Social Work Intern (1996)
Memorial Hermann Hospital
- Patient and family counseling, guardianship, resource referrals, discharge planning.
Education
Master of Social Work -
University of Houston
03.1997
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology -
University of Houston
12.1994
Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Database Maintenance
- Conflict Resolution
- Team Collaboration
- Creative and Critical Thinking
- Community Advocacy
- Interpersonal Skills
- Staff Supervision
- MS Office
- Client Needs Assessment
- Client Confidentiality
- Crisis Intervention
- Crisis Assessment
- Risk Assessment
- Intervention Planning
- Resource Navigation
- Patient-Centered Care
- Treatment Planning
- Educational Support
- Case Documentation
- Behavioral Counseling
- Community Resources
- Case Needs Assessments
- Confidential Documentation and Recordkeeping
- Social Services
- Child Welfare and Protective Services
- Psycho-Social Assessments
- Compassionate
- Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration
- Cultural Competency
- Community Referrals
Conference Presentations
- Support Groups for Chronic Illness (MHMRA)
- Role of the Transplant Social Worker in Patient Evaluation (Houston Methodist Hospital)
- Novel Psychosocial Risk Model Identifies Liver Disease Patients At-Risk for Poor Post-Transplant Outcomes (Society for Transplant Social Workers conference)
- Organ Donation (Memorial Hermann Hospital)
- When the Living Donor Advocate Says No (2016 Donor Advocate Symposium)
- ILDA Toolkit (Baylor Scott & White Dallas) October 2022
Honors Affiliations
- Field Instructor for the University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work
- Nominated for: Memorial Hermann Hospital Employee of the Year, Employee of the Quarter; University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work Field Instructor of the Year
- Golden Key National Honor Society
- Psi Chi National Psychology Honor Society
Research
Retrospective study utilizing a team developed psychosocial risk model to analyze correlation to poor post transplant outcomes (2009)
Accomplishments
- Nominated for Memorial Hermann Employee of the Year
- Employee of the quarter for Memorial Hermann Hospital
- Golden Key National Honor Society
- Graduated Summa Cum Laude
- Graduated Phi Beta Kappa
Timeline
Home Study Social Worker, Infant Adoption
Catholic Charities
11.2014 - 06.2015
Independent Living Donor Advocate, Transplant Social Worker
The Living Bank
04.2014 - 11.2023
Transplant Social Worker
The Methodist Hospital
09.2007 - 03.2014
Women’s Services Social Worker (2003 – 2007)
Memorial Hermann Hospital
Neonatal Social Worker (1997 – 2003)
Memorial Hermann Hospital
Social Work Intern (1995 - 1996)
Communities in Schools, Northbrook High School
Shock Trauma Social Work Intern (1996)
Memorial Hermann Hospital
Master of Social Work -
University of Houston
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology -
University of Houston
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