Mental Health Nurse

An established company is recruiting for the following position. 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 Skills: - 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