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Ella Allen
Senior Social Worker with experience in psychosocial assessment, care transitions, resource coordination, and crisis documentation. Practical work includes Psychosocial assessment, Discharge planning, Crisis intervention, Community resources.
Experience
Corewell Health
Dearborn · United States
Senior Social Worker
Jan 2023 - now
- As workstream lead, completed psychosocial assessments covering safety, housing, caregiving, transportation, and access barriers; gave the interdisciplinary team a shared view of barriers affecting the care plan.
- With responsibility for the review standard, coordinated discharge options with patients, families, clinical teams, payers, and community providers; resolved eligibility and handoff gaps before the planned transition date.
- As workstream lead, documented crisis assessments, protective factors, consulted clinicians, and agreed safety actions; left a traceable rationale for urgent decisions and follow-up ownership.
- Completed a psychosocial assessment with the patient’s consent, coordinated the discharge plan with community providers, and checked that referrals were accepted before closing the case.
- Owned the assigned discharge-planning checklist using psychosocial assessments under supervision, resolved a missing community-resource referral and completed the documented care handoff.
- Built a crisis-intervention referral guide using verified service eligibility, reduced incomplete counseling referrals by 21% and published the supervisor-approved escalation steps.
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota · United States
Social Worker
Mar 2016 - Dec 2022
- Reviewed repeated referral failures by resource type, eligibility rule, and response time; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, updated the resource guide with verified intake routes and escalation contacts.
- Checked that the reviewed record preserved the original observation, date and responsible professional, clarified an incomplete entry with its author, and retained the correction trail for the next review.
- Reconciled information received at handover with the current care record, clarified a discrepancy with the responsible clinician, and documented the agreed follow-up without overwriting the original clinical observation.
Selected project
Social Worker — independent case study
Cross-functional project lead
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
- Documented crisis assessments, protective factors, consulted clinicians, and agreed safety actions; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
- Prepared a fictional case record with an event timeline, incomplete documentation and an escalation question; checked source consistency without using identifiable patient or participant records.
- Created a review checklist separating administrative completeness from clinical decisions, tested a missing-date and conflicting-entry scenario, and documented which questions required a qualified professional’s review.
- Owned the synthetic case-document review using approved training guidance, resolved a missing signoff and completed a version-controlled supervisor-review packet without real patient data.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
Master of Social Work
Sep 2010 - Jun 2012
Relevant coursework: Psychosocial assessment, social policy, casework, supervised field education
Skills
Role expertise
Psychosocial assessment · Discharge planning · Crisis intervention · Community resources · Case documentation
Publications
- Published a personal training-case reflection using fictional records, explaining the handoff checks, confidentiality boundaries and decisions reserved for licensed clinical staff.

