KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Organizing work loads and duty rotas for Nurses
Building relationships with, reassuring and listening to and talking to patients
Combating stigma and helping patients and their families manage it
Reviewing care plans and monitoring progress
Assessing treatment success at case conferences and meetings
Supervising in and out patient records, writing and updating patient records
Encouraging patients to take part in therapeutic activities such as art
Identifying and managing patients with mental health illnesses both in outpatient and psychiatric consultation clinic and in the community through follow-ups.
Overseeing and conducting mental health assessments.
Planning individual case managements of mental health patients in the centre and referring accordingly.
Assessing, planning, implementing nursing interventions and evaluating patients outcome.
Providing psychiatric support by use of individual or group counseling and psychotherapy.
Facilitating patients admissions and initiating discharge plans.
Any other duty as may be assigned from time to time
KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:
Good Communication skills
Creativity and adaptability
Management skills
Leadership skills
Eye to details
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Diploma in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
2 years post qualification experience in the field
Fluency in all Office applications (incl. Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.)
Must have a valid Practicing license