Mental Health & Psychiatry Nurse Jobs Kenya Lamu County

Mental Health & Psychiatry Nurse Jobs Kenya Lamu County


Mental Health & Psychiatry Nurse Job at Lamu County

Terms of Service:

  • Permanent & Pensionable

    Requirements for the Mental Health & Psychiatry Nurse Job

  • 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;

    Mental Health & Psychiatry Nurse 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.

    How to Apply

  • National Identity Card
    Academic and Professional Certificates.
  • Foreign degrees must be accredited by Commission of Higher Education (CHE).
  • Valid Clearance Certificate of Good Conduct, Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), Credit Reference Bureau (CRB), Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Tax Compliance.
  • Any other relevant supporting documents.
  • All applications should be submitted in a sealed envelope by hand or poster addressed to:
  • The Secretary
  • Lamu County Public Service Board
  • P.O. Box 536-80500
  • Lamu.
  • Important information
  • The applications should reach the County Public Service Board Office on or before29th October 2018.
  • Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
  • Youth, Women and persons with special needs are encouraged to apply.

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