مطلوب ممرضة نفسية – Psychiatric Nurse لمنظمة Embrace

1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The main role of the Psychiatric Nurse is to conduct thorough clinical assessments, promote therapeutic communication, de-escalate mental health crisis, and working closely with multidisciplinary team.

1. ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES

• Respect: To consider all individuals worthy of high regards and respect.
• Integrity: To adhere to the highest moral and ethical principles in fulfilling Embrace’s mission.
• Compassion: To understand another person’s condition from their perspective and strive to respond to their needs.
• Inclusiveness: To actively include stakeholders in decision making and the implementation of Embrace’s strategic goals.
• Accountability: To acknowledge and assume responsibility for all actions and decisions undertaken within the organization.
• Ownership: To assume one’s responsibility towards their role and the organization, to problem solve and actively seek feedback in a proactive manner.
• Collaboration: To actively seek feedback from members of the team, and work collaboratively with team members inside the organization as well as engage external partners in fulfilling Embrace’s mission and vision.

C. MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Providing essential teaching and psychoeducation to patients and family members to help them understand the dimensions of the mental illness.
• Promoting therapeutic communication and conduct thorough clinical assessments.
• Building relationships with patients, reassuring, and listening to and talking to patients.
• Fighting stigma and helping patients and their families manage it.
• Agreeing and reviewing care plans and monitoring progress.
• Providing direct care to patients, which includes facilitating social and emotional needs.
• Supervising medication schedules and evaluating patient progress.
• Assessing treatment progress and success at case conferences and meetings.
• Educating patients and family members on how to create a supportive environment for the patients to return to for long-term care and recovery.
• Maintaining a safe environment through the use of monitoring devices and restraining techniques where deemed necessary.
• Providing social support for patients by creating and encouraging patients to take advantage of opportunities such as support groups, social activities, and other therapeutic measures, as well as participating with patients where appropriate.
• Collaborating with interdisciplinary professionals to determine and provide the best possible care for patients.
• Collaborating with a multi-disciplinary mobile team to intervene during emergency mental health crisis through a 24/7 mobile unit
• Acting liaison between patient, clinician, and medication provider (pharmacy)
• Writing and updating patient records.

Professional Skills and Knowledge

• Demonstrates ability to conduct through clinical assessment and clear case formulation
• Demonstrates ability to recognize mental health priority conditions as per the mhGAP.
• Demonstrates ability to use standardized assessment tools.
• Demonstrates ability to provide empathic, evidence-based, brief, psychological first aid to a culturally diverse population.
• Demonstrate ability to intervene and de-escalate mental health emergencies and suicidal crises.
• Demonstrates ability to develop a consistent treatment plan clear objective.
• Demonstrates ability to monitor and evaluate health indicators related to medical prescriptions.

Skilled in or willing to build their capacity and knowledge in:

• Developing family-centred, goal and strength focused, recovery-oriented care plan.
• Mental health in complex emergencies (IASC guidelines, Psychological First Aid, mhGAP…).
• Biopsychosocial model in mental health.
• Community-based approach in mental health.
• Human rights-based approach in mental health.
• Evidence-based approach in psychiatric nursing.
• Knowledge about the predictable stresses of humanitarian aid work and the policies and practices needed to mitigate them.

Behavioural Skills

• Demonstrates excellent organization and time management skills.
• Demonstrates ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrates excellent communication, problem solving, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
• Demonstrates a high level of professionalism while providing services to beneficiaries or working with internal support staff.
• Demonstrates ability to adhere to ethical considerations and principles about work with vulnerable populations.
• Demonstrates cultural sensitivity.