Primary Role:

The Mental Health Nurse is responsible for supporting and assists in managing all clinical operations by delivering appropriate, consistently high quality and cost-effective preventive and curative clinical services to all patients and their families in a professional manner.

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

If your Professional background, relevant experience and competences match the specifications outlined, please send us your application, CV and copies of your certificates, clearly indicating the position applied for, to vacancies@tranquilmedcentre.com. Shortlisting will be done on a rolling basis.

Please note that we do not charge any fee at any stage of our recruitment process.