Nurse or Psychiatric Nurse for Mobile Crisis Team (Tyre - South Lebanon)

The nurse will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary mobile team to intervene during emergency mental health crisis through a 24/7 mobile unit.This is a flexible working hours position, starting from 10 on-call days per month.

MAJOR DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary mobile team to provide holistic care during emergency mental health crisis through a 24/7 mobile unit
• Assess, collaboratively with MCT GP/psychiatrist, for current stressors, current mental health status, mental health history, vital signs, and other aspects as necessary with the service user and/or family/ friends/ caregivers 
• Provide appropriate care/support through verbal de-escalation and providing emotional support, psychoeducation, collaborative problem solving or setting of action plan, while avoiding unnecessary law enforcement involvement, ED use and hospitalization.
• Administer medication(s) as prescribed by MCT physician and monitor for medication reactions
• Crises planning and follow up
• Managing the medication kit, and updating medication sheet after every dispatch
• Collaborate with physician in documenting and reporting services provided as per protocol
• Follow up on the clinical status of service users hospitalized through the Mobile Crisis Team and manage their stay given the budget and estimated duration of hospitalization needed
• Communicate with service users/ family and hospitals when transfer of service users is indicated
• Communicate follow up outcomes with the project coordinator

QUALIFICATIONS:

I. Critical Skills:

• License to practice as a registered nurse from the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health/Order of Nurses.
• 3-5 years of experience post Bachelors’s
• Fluency in English and Arabic, French is a plus.

2.  Professionsl Skills:

• Demonstrates ability to conduct thorough clinical assessments
• Demonstrates ability to use standardized assessment tools.
• Demonstrates ability to provide empathic, evidence-based, brief, psychological first aid to a culturally diverse population.
• Demonstrates ability to intervene and de-escalate mental health emergencies and suicidal crises.

3.  Skilled in or Willing to Build Their Capacity and Knowledge In:

• Evidence based approach in psychiatric nursing.
• Biopsychological model in mental health.
• Community-based approach and human rights-based approach in mental health.
• Mental Health in complexes emergencies (IASC guidelines, Psychological First Aid, mhGAP…)
• Predictable stresses of humanitarian aid work and the policies and practices needed to mitigate them.

4.  Behavioral Skills:

• Demonstrates ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrates excellent organization and time management skills.
• Demonstrates excellent communication, problem solving, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
• Demonstrates ability to adhere to ethical considerations and principles with regard to working with vulnerable populations.
• Demonstrates a high level of professionalism while providing services to beneficiaries or working with internal support staff.