Mental Health & Psychiatry Nurse at County Government of Lamu

Requirements

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Higher National Diploma in Mental Health and Psychiatry Nursing;
• Diploma in Nursing
• Be registered with nursing Council of Kenya;
• Valid practicing license from the Nursing Council of Kenya;
• Certificate in Computer application skills from a recognized institution;

Job Responsibilities

• Assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, monitoring mental health, psychiatric nursing interventions, evaluating patients /clients outcomes and progress;
• Providing health education, psychotherapies services to individual , groups and families, cognitive behavior therapies, rehabilitation therapies, prescribing and supervising medication s schedules and conducting general physical examinations;
• Compiling and maintaining records on patients / client health condition and care;
• Providing and coordinating counseling to patients/clients, family and community on identified health needs to ensure health seeking and health promoting behavior;
• Liaising with other interdisciplinary professional to determine and provide the best health care for the patients/ clients;
• Facilitating patient’s admission, initiating discharge plans and referral appropriately;
• Ensuring tidy and safe clinical environment;
• Conducting nursing teaching and assessment of nursing staff and students, using evidence based practices;
• Preparing individual reports;
• Planning, implementing interventions, preparing periodic reports, conducting occupational health needs assessment and making appropriate recommendations and managing a health service delivery unit;
• Ensuring effective utilization and safety of assigned medical supplies and equipment;
• Caring for patients at health delivery unit using the nursing process;
• Implementing recommendations of research finding for improvement of nursing care service;
• Organizing, coordinating and conducting integrated outreach programmes.