5th Basque Inclusion Conference

Juan Jordana Zorrilla

Social Worker in the Araba Mental Health Network, key social/healthcare figure at the RSMA.

University diploma in Social Work from the UPV-EHU and Degree in Social Work from the UNED. He then did two postgraduate courses: in Ethics, Expert in Ethics in the Social Services Context, and in Supervision, Expert in Supervision in the Context of Social Services at the UPV-EHU. Since 1991 he has taught placement students from the 4th year in Social Work at the university school of Social Work at the UPV-EHU, and since 2022 he has worked as a teacher with nursing residents on the course in Social Resources at the UPV-EHU Vitoria university school of nursing. 

He is currently key social/healthcare figure in the Araba Mental Health Network, in Social/Healthcare Coordination, as well as a social worker in the Álava Psychiatric Hospital, in the Functional Rehabilitation Unit, the Adolescents' Day Hospital and the Resistant Psychosis Unit. Previously, from 1989 to 2001, he was a social worker at the Álava Psychiatric Hospital, in the Rehabilitation Unit, and from 2001 to 2007 a social worker in the Acute Psychiatry and Emergency Unit at Basurto Hospital.