KEMRI Hiring Psychiatric Nurses – Kisumu

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, review and adhere to the study standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Sensitize the community/health facilities teams on the study.
• Respond to questions about the study posed by participants and the community in consultation with the study coordinator.
• Screen and enroll study participants and Administer Informed Consent administration per study protocol.
• Administer study questionnaires as per protocol, accurately record the data and perform quality checks before submitting the data.
• Maintain documentation of all study activities as per study standard operating procedures.
• Participate in multidisciplinary case reviews for PPWH who do not respond to intervention.
• Provide appropriate referral for non-intervention study participants with high CMD scores per protocol.
• Follow-up participants to ensure study visits are conducted in a timely manner.
• For study participants on medication, monitor and update the psychiatrist and MDT on progress.
• Ensure participant retention and adhere to site retention strategies.
• Interact with participants in accordance with ethical standards and guidelines for research involving human subjects. This includes safeguarding participants’ confidentiality, respecting their autonomy, and protecting their well-being
• Prepare daily updates, weekly and monthly progress reports, adverse event reports, serious adverse event reports as required.
• Provide supervision to mentor mothers to ensure implementation of the interventions and attend all study related meetings.
• Collaborate closely with other members of the research team-Behavioural Care officers, Mentor mothers, data team, principal investigators, health facility staff, and larger Kargeno-research Hub staff.
• Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

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