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ELEMENTARY SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER
Professional Summary

Enthusiastic, personable, reliable, and highly motivated Medical Assistant with a proven history of superior performance at individual, team and organizational levels. Possesses the ability to multitask and prioritize workloads with little or no supervision, and able to learn new skills with ease. Detail-oriented professional looking to bring medical background and team-building skills to deadline-driven environment. Former jobs as a medical receptionist and as a teacher, with over eight years of experience educating students all the way from pre-kindergarten-aged to college-aged, in subjects ranging from the English language arts, Mathematics, and Special Education, demonstrate proven ability, skills, and inclination to work, help, and communicate with people and patients with sensitive medical issues.

Skills
  • Superb communication skills: spoken, interpersonal, and in writing
  • Outstanding social skills: personable, outgoing, appreciates constructive criticism, remains positive at all times, maintains eye contact, and knows the difference between being assertive and being aggressive
  • Team player who is willing to go above and beyond for patients/clients, coworkers, supervisors, and the workplace
  • Skilled in conflict resolution
  • Advanced in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; proficient in WebPT, and easily trainable on other EMR and EHR systems
  • Advanced in phone scheduling and in-person scheduling (both electronic- and paper-based), including scheduling new patients, follow-up appointments for established patients, and calling no-show patients to try and get them rescheduled
  • Highly proficient in medical records management, both via computer software programs and with file folders or other paper-based methods
  • Proficient in insurance verification
  • Have not only worked and abided by HIPAA guidelines, but have also helped explain them to patients and their loved ones/guardians
  • Typing speed is 75 WPM
  • Currently taking online Spanish courses in efforts to become bilingual
  • Always looking to learn and grow, not just for myself, but also for the patients, my colleagues, and for my love of the medicine field and the desire to help others
Work History
Medical Receptionist, 09/2019 to 03/2020
Company Name – City, State
  • Used electronic-based scheduling (WebPT) software, scheduled, rescheduled, and cancelled appointments, while also adding patient notes, such as something they may have mentioned over the phone, like they had more severe back pain than normal or they would be running five minutes late, and any other pertinent information. This was all vital in keeping the therapists, techs, and any supervisor or therapist at another branch up to date at all times
  • Advanced in both phone and in-person scheduling, which involved scheduling new patients, follow-up appointments for established patients, calling no-show patients to try and get them rescheduled
  • Abided by HIPAA guidelines at all times, and being the first person that patients would see when they would enter and also be closest to when they were filling out intake and other forms, often helped explain to them those policies, amongst many others that were within my scope of my job title
  • Helped the central insurance verifier in the Elmwood location by often verifying insurance for patients at my branch
  • In charge of completing many aspects of patients' medical records, faxing them to their other physician's, and also filing them both electronically and in storage
  • Maintained a positive and healthy relationship with every patient and made sure I knew each of their names and always treated them with kindness and respect
Elementary Special Education Teacher, 08/2015 to 08/2019
Company Name – City, State
  • Over the course of four years teaching with JP schools, I taught a multitude of different Special Education courses to students with different exceptionalities of different ages and grades, including students with diagnosed ADHD, bipolar disorder, traumatic head injuries, defiance issues stemming from other disorders, and a multitude of learning disabilities. I also taught older students on the spectrum, and spent the last two years teaching pre-kindergarten students on the spectrum. During my tenure, on-the-job responsibilities included, but were not limited to:

Developing lesson plans for all Pre-Kindergarten teachers and overseeing those written by all other Special Education teachers

Creating IEPs and running team meetings. Also assisting other teachers with writing their IEPs (Individualized Education Plans)

Promoted to ABIT chair (discussing and creating plans for students, school-wide, who were in need of intervention) and PBIS team member (implementing positive-behavior strategies) in August 2018

Creating strategies to meet the needs of mentally- and physically-disabled students

Teaching reading, ELA, science, technology, math, and social sciences in primarily self-contained classrooms, while implementing blending and inclusion as much as possible

Redirecting inappropriate behavior using positive-reinforcement method
Collaborating with students, parents, fellow special education teachers and para-educators, and administrators to help students succeed
Meeting and scheduling phone calls with parents and advocates on a regular basis, inside and outside of school hours, to resolve conflicting educational priorities and issues

Patient Care Coordinator/Medical Receptionist, 06/2012 to 12/2014
Company Name – City, State
  • Welcomed patients and visitors by greeting patients and visitors, in person or on the telephone; answering or referring inquiries
  • Checked in patients for their appointments, and prepared charts
  • Comforted patients by anticipating their anxieties and answering questions
  • Maintained patient accounts by obtaining, recording, and updating personal and insurance information
  • Obtained revenue by collecting patient co-pays and balances
  • Protected patients' rights by maintaining confidentiality of personal information
  • Maintained operations by following policies and procedures; reporting needed changes
  • Contributed to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
  • Carried out front office duties utilizing data entry skills in framework of medical database
English Composition/Writing Instructor, 08/2010 to 05/2013
Company Name – City, State
  • Taught college freshmen and sophomores how to produce both finished writing and preparatory writing: e.g., multiple drafts of formal writing, journal writing, written responses to other texts, etc
  • Taught Introduction to Writing, in addition to English Composition, to students during summer semesters: e.g., poetry, fiction, and nonfiction
  • Created course syllabi, all paper prompts, and class assignments
  • Maintained 3x weekly office hours to help students with questions and educational support
  • Graded and gave feedback on all papers/assignments and submitted midterm and final grades to the registrar's office
Education
Associate of Science: Medical Assisting, Expected in 08/2021
Eastern College Of Health Vocations - City

- Goal is also to become certified in phlebotomy during my time at ECHV.

Master of Arts: Creative Writing, 2013
Florida Atlantic University - City, State

- Master of Fine Arts

- Graduated Magna Cum Laude

- Also practiced and composed numerous work in poetry and nonfiction

- Thesis is a full-length novel entitled Progress, Regress

- 4 poems, 2 nonfiction pieces, 1 fiction piece, and one play published to date

Bachelor of Arts: English & Communication Studies, 2007
Bridgewater State University - City, State

- Editor in Chief of the university's weekly newspaper, The Comment

- Double-majored

- English degree emphasis in Writing; Communication Studies emphasis in Journalism

- Student government representative; recipient of "Bears Best" award for student leader

- Graduated Magna Cum Laude

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Resume Overview

School Attended

  • Eastern College Of Health Vocations
  • Florida Atlantic University
  • Bridgewater State University

Job Titles Held:

  • Medical Receptionist
  • Elementary Special Education Teacher
  • Patient Care Coordinator/Medical Receptionist
  • English Composition/Writing Instructor

Degrees

  • Associate of Science : Medical Assisting , Expected in 08/2021
    Master of Arts : Creative Writing , 2013
    Bachelor of Arts : English & Communication Studies , 2007

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