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Job Title: Mental Health Nurse FSR # 537

Location: Zaatari Camp 

Job Summary :

As Mental Health Nurse, responsibilities encompass medication management in coordination with pharmacist, collaborating with psychiatrists to interpret and implement orders, ensuring adherence to therapeutic standards. The nurse conducts quality checks on medications, and adheres to storage regulations. Additionally the MH Nurse actively contributes to the development and monitoring of care plans, participates in case conferences, advocates community access to health services. The role also involves meticulous documentation, regular reporting to senior management, and effective collaboration with pharmacists to manage pharmacy inventory.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting psychiatrist orders
• Works closely with psychiatrists to determine medications needed as part of MHPSS service-delivery.
• Liaises with Psychiatry Consultant to ensure medications procured are in line with therapeutic standards and drug controls.
• Completed the good issue orders (GIO) and submits them to the warehouse
• Monitors client consumption and ensures heavily utilized medication is kept in stock with adequate supply.
• Takes precautions to avoid stock shortages by anticipating the demand of medications, based on medications usage in clinics.
• Submits and follows-up on medications procurement requisition forms (PR) according to clinic need and client’s consumption.
• Conducts quality checks when receiving medications from vendors and regular quality checks on medications and adherence to medication storage requirements.
• Ensure the safe storage of medications in Azraq, and advise mental health nurses and pharmacists to adhere to compliance standards.
• Complies with International Medical Corps drug laws, international guidelines regarding use of psychotropic, and national drug enforcement laws.
• Complies with the drug enforcement administration and the food and drug administration by monitoring mental health clinics.
•  Maintain current registration.
• Ensure to remain up to date with existing, new and anticipating legislation, advising management on needed actions to ensure compliance.
• Protect patients and technicians by adhering to medications protocols.
• Ensure access to medications is restricted to only authorized persons within mental health clinics.
• Maintains a safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Follow up with the pharmacist for distributing medications for patients according to psychiatrist prescriptions and follows up to record the consumptions for each clinic.
• Follow up with admin, epilepsy, and mental retardation cases, to ensure they take their medication as recommended by the psychiatrist, and maintain good mental health state.
• Contributes to team effort by completing additional tasks as requested.
• Organize the development of biopsychosocial initial care plan with focus on any immediate safety concerns.
• Monitor on-going care plan development
• Establish short-term and long-term goals in case planning
• Ensure that all care plan activities have time lines and support services.
• Serve as a client advocate.
• Enhance a collaborative relationship to maximize the client’s and family’s ability to make informed decisions.
• Conduct review for appropriate utilization of services from admission through discharge/termination.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team, and actively participate in case conferences
• Evaluate client satisfaction and quality of care provided.
• Ensure involvement of local authorities, community leaders, and community groups in creating community network which increase access to better health and social services for vulnerable population of Jordan.
• Contribute to the case management file, including assessments, treatment plan and quality assurance measures (HoNOS) and client functioning scale.
• Provide regular updates and reports to senior management staff as required; contribute to donor reports and internal IMC reports as required
• In coordination with the pharmacist, remove outdated and damaged medications from the pharmacy inventory.
• Perform other job-related duties as requested by Supervisor.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree in nursing
• NGO experience is an asset.
• Experience in Pyschiatric Nurse is preferred
   

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Compliance & Ethics

Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps’ and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.  Conducts work with the highest level of integrity. Communicates these values to staff and to partners and requires them to adhere to these values.

Equal Opportunities

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This job description is subject to periodic review and adjustment in order to achieve International Medical Corps goals in Jordan, and any changes to the job description will be discussed and agreed

“I hereby certify that all the information provided through the application and CV are accurate and the supportive documents are available upon request, any false information provided will cause cancelation of the application and applicant will be subject to legal action”.

Our screening process will be on a rolling basis, once a candidate is selected the announcement will be closed.