Experience

Charlotte Hall Veterans Home

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Human Resource/Workers' Compensation Specialist

  • Oct 2009 - Present

  • Assist Director in reviewing all requests for new or replacement personnel, fill requests as approved, and arrange interviews, appointments, etc.• Check applications and references of prospective employees.• Ensure that nurse aide data is verified or submitted to the Nurse Aide Registry on a timely basis.• Assist the Director in obtaining and maintaining credentialing files separate from personnel files onall the nursing staff.• Maintain job applications for personnel eligible to work in the facility.• Maintain confidentiality of all pertinent employee information in accordance with the Privacy Act, as well as the facility’s established policies governing the release of information.• Ensure that appropriate documentation concerning the employees right to work in this country isverified and that appropriate documentation is filed in the employee’s record within the specifiedtime frame.• Assist Director in maintaining an adequate personnel record filing system that meets the needs of the facility and complies with current employment practices.• Ensure that the facility is in compliance with current applicable federal and state employmentregulations regarding wages, overtime, work hours, workman’s/unemployment compensation.• Assures the accurate and timely completion of the payroll function to include maintenance of records, processing paychecks, computation of federal and state payroll liability and bi-weekly disbursement.• Keep department directors informed of changes in personnel matters.• Conduct employee background and reference checks in accordance with established procedures.• Process all newly hired personnel information and all change of status data.• Monitor Worker Compensation claims; coordinate work between employees and insurance carrier.• Monitor unemployment claims.• Maintain attendance records and records of counseling, warning, and other disciplinary action taken against employees.



Delaware Legal Aid Society

• Attorney (Practiced pursuant to Delaware Supreme Court Civil Rule 55)

  • Nov 2005 - Dec 2007

  • Represent clients in court or before government agencies.• Present evidence to defend clients in civil litigation.• Argue motions, meet with judges and question witnesses during the course of a trial.• Study Constitution, statutes, decisions, regulations, and ordinances of quasi-judicial bodies to determine ramifications for cases.• Interpret laws, rulings and regulations for individuals and businesses.• Present and summarize cases to judges and juries.• Prepare legal briefs and opinions, and file appeals in state and federal courts of appeal.• Analyze the probable outcomes of cases, using knowledge of legal precedents.• Examine legal data to determine advisability of defending or prosecuting lawsuit.• Evaluate findings and develop strategies and arguments in preparation for presentation of cases.• Advise clients concerning business transactions, claim liability, advisability of prosecuting or defending lawsuits, or legal rights and obligations.• Gather evidence to formulate defense or to initiate legal actions, by such means as interviewing clients and witnesses to ascertain the facts of a case.• Negotiate settlements of civil disputes.• Supervise legal assistants.