Mental Health Nurse

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
  

Method of Application

• 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