Registered Nurse – Health Company – Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) 126 views

Requirements:

• Diploma or Degree in General Nursing Science with Psychiatry would be advantageous
• Registered with SANC
• Experience within a Mental Health environment/experience with Mental Health patients and conditions
• Experience/knowledge in substance use disorders

Key Competencies:

• Communication
• Collaboration
• Analysis & decision making
• Safety and quality
• Initiative-taking
• Flexibility
• Willingness to change
• Humility
• Curiosity
• Self-discipline
• Perseverance

Managerial Competencies:

• Leadership
• Managing performance
• Financial Management and control

The main purpose of this position:

You will form part of a nursing team that work together with Psychiatrists, Psychologists and other clinicians to combine their efforts efficiently and effectively, and in so doing so achieve consistently good outcomes for patients placed in our care.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Deliver safe, quality nursing care according to the scope of practice
• Assess, observe, monitor and provide information about patient health and behaviour to the rest of the IDT team
• Provide a safe and supportive physical and psychological environment
• Manage and educate patients around important aspects with regards to prescribed medication
• Support patients with processing of therapy interventions during their daily schedule
• Facilitate patient compliance with regards to therapy activities and the daily schedule
• Aware of Mental Healthcare act no 17 of 2002