Enrolled Nurse (Day Clinic) – Immediate Start

Here you help people wash, eat, move and heal, at a home-based care agency in Kariega. People who do well here are steady, honest and not scared to ask when something is unclear.

This post is Kariega-based, with most of your time spent at a home-based care agency.

• Keep families updated on routine matters and pass clinical questions to the sister
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse
• Turn bed-bound patients on schedule and check pressure areas for early sores
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Help patients bath, dress, eat and use the toilet with dignity
• Make beds, change linen and keep the rooms clean and uncluttered

• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate
• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent

• Experience in a frail care or hospice setting
• Code B or Code 8 driver's licence for home visits

• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres
• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities
• Paid training in dementia and end-of-life care

• 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.