Senior Staff Nurse (Community Mental Health Team)

Institution: Institute of Mental Health

Family Group: Nursing

Position:Senior Staff Nurse

Department:Community Mental Health Team

Job Description:

The Senior Staff Nurse is responsible for maintaining clients in the community by providing comprehensive psychosocial rehabilitation programme and administration of treatment for client with mental illness in community. The Senior Staff Nurse will ensure continuity of holistic client care in the community by conducting assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of interventions to meet the needs of client and caregivers.

Job Responsibilities:

• Conducts home visit and performs bio-psycho-social assessment for clients and their home environment.
• Plans, implements and documents an effective and comprehensive care plan with the multidisciplinary team for client on identified problems/needs.
• Assists clients in developing their own rehabilitation goals and plans.
• Monitors clients’ progress, supervises their medication and administer injections as prescribed by the doctor.
• Assesses client’s mental and physical status and notifies the doctor when there are aberrations or improvement in patient’s condition.
• Demonstrates knowledge of medication action, mode of administration, side effects and contraindications for commonly used psychiatric and medical medication.
• Administers depot injections and performs treatment as ordered by doctor.
• Reports all medication errors and near misses promptly to the reporting officer for immediate action.
• Adheres to infection control practices in the delivery of care.
• Maintains required certification in resuscitative techniques.
• Prepares or escorts clients for admission to hospital when necessary.
• Monitors compliance to follow-up and treatment regime. Encourages clients to be compliance to treatment.
• Maintains safe storage of depot injections (if any)
• Demonstrates knowledge of therapeutic modalities that can be used to help patient deal with his/her health problems such as Assertive Community Treatment Model, Psychosocial Rehabilitation Model, Psychotropic Medications, Illness Self Management Recovery, Family Nursing and Patient Education.
• Promotes and demonstrates therapeutic nurse patient relationship in all patient transactions.
• Assesses, identifies and prioritizes client and family learning needs, including communication limitations and need for alternative forms of communication.
• Provides relevant educational materials to patient and family.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills with clients and caregiver.
• Provides counseling and psychological support to clients and their caregiver.
• Maintains proper documentation of care given in client’s record.
• Conduct sharing, training for Community Partners.

Requirements:

Competency

• Passion to work in the community
• Possess good interpersonal, communication, writing & IT skills
• Able to build genuine and trusting relationship with clients
• Familiar with healthcare environment
• Able to work independently with good decision-making skills
• Able to understand, communicate with. And effectively interact with clients across diverse cultures and backgrounds

Educational and Professional Requirements

• Diploma / Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• Must be registered with Singapore Nursing Board
• Minimum 2 years’ experience as SN in acute ward
• Registered Mental Health Nurse

About IMH:

The Institute of Mental Health (IMH) in Singapore, established in 1928, is a premier 2,000-bed psychiatric hospital nestled in Buangkok Green Medical Park, providing comprehensive mental health services across 50 inpatient wards and 7 outpatient clinics, while also playing a pivotal role in training the next generation of mental health professionals through the NHG-AHPL Residency Programme and collaborations with local academic institutions.