Psychiatric Registered Nurse for Mobile Crisis Team

Major duties and responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary mobile team to intervene during emergency mental health crisis through a 24/7 mobile unit.
• Provide appropriate care/support while avoiding unnecessary law enforcement involvement, ED use and hospitalization.
• Assess the situation and handle it with care and be able to give the proper support.
• Coordinate with medical and behavioral health services to give medications if necessary, based on the psychiatrist’s instructions.
• Crisis planning and follow up.

Administrative Clinical Support:

• Manage the medication kit
• Act as liaison between patient, clinician and medication provider (Pharmacy)
• Write and update patient records

General Skills:

• Required professional skills and knowledge: Assessment and Psychotherapy skills:
• Ability to conduct thorough clinical assessments and clear case formulation
• Ability to recognize mental health priority conditions as per the mhGAP
• Ability to use standardized assessment tools
• Ability to provide empathic, evidence-based, brief, psychological first aid to a culturally diverse population.
• Ability to intervene and de-escalate mental health emergencies and suicidal crises.

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

• 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
• Get the necessary training for the intervention team.

Behavioral Competencies: 

• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
• Calm and patient person
• Excellent communication, problem solving, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills
• Cultural sensitivity
• Ability to adhere to ethical considerations and principles with regard to work with vulnerable populations
• Demonstrate a high level of professionalism while providing services to beneficiaries or working with internal support staff.

Time commitment: 

• Part-time (Availability for 24/7 emergency crises)
• Mobile presence in Beirut during emergencies