Enrolled Nurse (Day Clinic)

You'll give hands-on nursing care at a hospice in-patient unit in Rustenburg, working alongside registered nurses. It suits someone who likes knowing exactly what a good day's work looks like.

This post is Rustenburg-based, with most of your time spent at a hospice in-patient unit. You'll start with a short induction before working on your own.

• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse

• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely
• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people

• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres
• Uniform supplied
• Overtime paid at time and a half
• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities

• 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.