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Azabo Vincent

Address: Uganda Prisons Health Services

P.O. Box 7182, Kampala

Phone: +256 (0)772 323 732

Email: [email protected]

 

INTRODUCTION I am a very devoted and enthused person with a lust to improve lives of people who need professional mental health and psycho-social support services to cope with healthy life challenges. I possess a very extensive post qualification experience of providing psychotherapy and counselling support services to diversity of clientele and that of working with, non-governmental and government systems at District or Local government and national levels. I am confident that I will immensely contribute to the human rights based approach to mental health of at-risk populations in your jurisdiction. At the moment, I provide mental health promotion education, case management, and support supervision for junior staff at Uganda Prisons Service.

 

WORK

EXPERIENCE 07/2019 -  to  date

Psychiatric Clinical Officer, Murchison Bay Hospital.

Responsibilities:

• Assessment, diagnosis, treatment of mentally sick prisoners and staff family members.
• Training of Subordinate staffs on mental health promotion.
• Supervision of subordinate health workers who offer mental health services to our clients.
• Work with community members to collaborate with mental health workers to identify psychiatric clients.

 

09/2011 – 06/2019

Regional Health Coordinator Northern Uganda, Gulu District.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated all health services delivery activities in twelve prisons in Northern Uganda.
• Lead the Psychiatric Team to offer quality mental health services to clients.
• Performed data analysis especially activity data.
• Showed data analysis in regular meetings for creating new program
• Support supervision to lower level prison units.
• Provided Psycho-social support to all category of clients who needed it.
• Trained Village health Teams is all 12 prisons to increase staffing levels in the community.

 

                                                            9/1998 – 07/2008

Nursing officer Psychiatry/Nursing Director, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Maracha, Arua, Uganda.

Responsibilities:

• Established a mental health clinic at St. Joseph’s Hospital
• Supervised all nursing activities
• Mentored newly recruited staffs about the Hospital culture of work.
• Trained nursing assistants to increase staffing levels.
• Participated in offering quality nursing care to all clients in the Hospital.
• Supervised and maintained hospital equipment and kept good inventory of them.

     

   

EDUCATION

   

 05/2018 – 05/2021

Bachelor Degree of Public Health, Cavendish University of Uganada (Course due for Completion in May 2021). The major course units include;

·         Communication skills and learning skills for employability

·         First Aid and Emergency Recue

·         Health Counseling and guidance

·         Communicable and non-communicable diseases.

·         Public health Nutrition

·         NGO management

·         Principles of environmental health

·         Principles of Health Education and Advocacy

·         Occupational health and safety

·         Public Health in emergency situations.

·         Project Planning and management.

·         Research Project

·         Mental health.

09/2008 – 10/2010

Higher Diploma in Clinical Psychiatry, Butabika School of Psychiatric Clinical Officers, Kampala, Uganda. Some of the important course units include;

·         Community Health

·         Internal Medicine

·         Health system Management.

·         Forensic Psychiatry

·         Research Methodology

·         Psychology

·         Psychiatry

·         Forensic Psychiatry

·         Psychotherapy

·         Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

 

O5/1992 – 05/1995

Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing, Butabika School of Psychiatric Nursing. Some of the course units include;

·         Psychiatry and Psychology

·         Medical and Psychiatric Nursing aspects

·         Practical and oral Examinations.

 

 

ADDITIONAL

SKILLS ·         Computer - Microsoft Office package: Microsoft Word, Excel, Access.

·         Safe male circumcision

·         Counseling and Psycho-education.

·         Lifesaving skills including Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation

·         Health Unit quality management and improvement

·         Leadership and management

·         Communication skills

·         Conflict resolution and management

·         Team building

·         Time management

 

PROFESSIONAL

BODIES

 

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

REFERENCES Uganda Allied health Professional council – Member

 

 

 

 

Language:          English, Swahili, Lugbara

Home District:   Maracha

Nationality:        Ugandan

Gender:              Male

Birth Date:         15th/04/1973

Marital status:    Married

No. of Children:  5

 

 

Available on request.