ANDREA LEE MACKINNON-CRIBB

CORE training; Stepwise 360: Interviewing children (level 1); working with families to problem-solve; addictions counseling; referrals; Jordon Principle; home visits; Plans of Care; Safety Assessments; Risk Assessments; Screening Reports; Apprehensions; Court; Affidavits; Foster Care; Protection Plans; Teams Meeting; Meeting with Community Members; Serving Paperwork; Programs; Food Bank; Walk-in Interventions; Adoptions

• Working with an individual client who has multiple health and mental health issues; maintaining a positive mindframe; exercise; medical appointments; recreational activities; teaching life skills; working on problem-solving skills; offering help with daily situation that may arise; cooking; cleaning; teaching how to care for a pet; rewarding activities for achieving goals.

Elgin - St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital

Mental health assessment that were required by doctors; collaboration with doctors for a diagnosis; intake assessment; calls for resources; counseling; solutions for the patient; understanding of mental health; understanding of addictions; communication with other organizations; report writing; meeting with the teams; communications with our team; challenging work environment; strong communication and writing skills with strict deadlines.

Attended Calls with Police or Paramedics; Counseling clients; Suicide Interventions; Mental Health Assessments; Cross trained for all departments; Working with High (Aggressive) Behaviours; Assisting People in Crisis; Attend Calls for Mental Health at the University of Western; First Reponse when Clients came into the Centre; Reports; Counseling in the Stablization Centre; Working with Indigenous Clients to understand their needs; Communication with other Staff; Crisis Calls; Intakes; Talking with other Organizations to help support the Client

• CTS, assisting nursing; provide medical interventions when needed; offering supports for different situations; managing crisis situations; suicide interventions; problem-solving the clients daily situations; teaching life skills; teaching people about harm reduction; managing behaviours; time management; passing out clean supplies; registering new clients; visit forms; checking clients in the chill room; managing the lobby; helping reception; managing the front door; giving out toiletries; handing out food; making kits; data entry; entering logbook notes; debriefing daily challenges; problem-solve with co-workers about clients situations

• Caseload of nine people, Meet with them weekly, attend doctors appointment with clients, help when housing, contact OCH, provided respite for families, help client with day to day problems, help with housecleaning, teach life skills, help with budgeting their money, help them communicate with their other workers, help with cooking and groceries, take them out on day trips, Incident reports when required, administrative reports weekly on the clients progress.

• Meet with Offenders; meet with community services; attended monthly meeting for MAP and chaplaincies; attend events to help MAP; attend board meetings; fundraising and grants; help create appeal letters for donations; event planning; booking spaces for events; charity donation invoices; find volunteers; train volunteers on the first half of training; arrange volunteer training for the second half; interview the clients; help clients with learn daily task; send out mail; receive mail; file; e-mail; answer phones; present reports to my board; write presentation to be present to community services.

• Patient Watch and Special Events
• Special Events: worked security at concerts and special events at the Scotiabank Place and Landsdowne
• Conducted pat-down searches; enforced alcohol control measures; physically diffused serious altercations and other disorderly behaviour; and enforced any orders from the pre-event briefing or from the band’s security team
• Patient Watch: provided security watches to “formed” patients at the Civic and General Campus Hospitals
• Always Watched specific patients, including those with outdoor privileges; informed nursing staff when restraints were required for unrulily patients; ensured no contraband was in patient possession; and provided access to secure areas for approved personnel.

• In charge of ATIP’S and filing); Creating ATIPS; researching files for specific pages or documents
• Filing, creating files, rearranging files, answering phones, e-mailing, faxing.

• Working with offenders to gain employment or training within the institution; made the correctional intervention board (CIB) sheet (weekly); imputed the offenders referrals for programs education; and employment requirements into OMS; took the minutes for Methadone intervention treatments (monthly); attended the CIB weekly to introduce offenders to Bath institution; attended board meeting when an offender was suspended from a program or employment; scheduled appointment for the programs department; answered e-mail about different situations and offenders; communicated with different staff in the institution in regards to offenders; worked with offenders one-on-one about various situation; supervised offenders on with certain tasks; on occasion wrote observation reports.

• RSW – Working with children who are fragile special needs, work with children who need one-on-one care; working with children who have behavioural problems; administering medication (orally and through G-tubes); preparing and administering tube feedings; taking clients out for events or walks around their living area; preparing meals and snacks, bathing and getting the children ready for bed, putting them to bed; getting them on and off the bus for school/para-transpo; talking to them about their day, trying to challenge them mentally with conversation and question about general topics.

• Dispatch: answer, prioritize and dispatch patrol teams to any calls received on an internal 9-line telephone system; dispatch response team to “codes”; perform reception duties in the Security Office; sign security guards into their posts for patient watches; sign out keys to approved contractors or hospital employees; and complete nightly personal shift notes
• Patrol: perform nightly foot-patrols of up to 16 buildings and report suspicious activity to Dispatch; ensure all doors are locked; locate and remove any trespassers; activate air ambulance procedures for helicopter landings and patient retrievals; and complete nightly personal shift notes
• Response: respond to codes yellow (missing patient), red (fire), orange (chemical spill) and white (violent patient) according to hospital procedures; provide soft and hard restraints support as required; complete missing patient identification report as required; communicate with Ottawa Police Services as required; and complete nightly personal shift notes

Work with People to help support them in their Journey on Healing; Understand the Person in a Decolonized Lens; Offer Support and Knowledge; Smudging; Traditional Circle; Work with the Elders