Enrolled Nurse (Day Clinic)

Here you help people wash, eat, move and heal, at a home-based care agency in Kariega. Bring a calm head on busy days and you'll be fine.

The site is in Kariega; early starts mean public transport timing matters, so check your route before applying. Hours are mostly Monday to Friday, with the odd Saturday in busy months.

• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Turn bed-bound patients on schedule and check pressure areas for early sores
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Spot confusion, falls risk or changes in mood and tell the nurse in charge

• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate
• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people

• A second South African language spoken by the patients you'll serve
• Code B or Code 8 driver's licence for home visits
• Dementia care or palliative care short course

• Uniform supplied
• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres
• Overtime paid at time and a half

• Name the type of patients you've cared for, such as stroke patients or dementia residents, in your first CV line.
• Recruiters phone references for care jobs, so warn your references and check their numbers still work.