Enrolled Nurse (Day Clinic)

You'll give hands-on nursing care at a home-based care agency in Vereeniging, working alongside registered nurses. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

The work is in Vereeniging, Gauteng, so you'll need a reliable way to get there every day. There's a probation period of three months before the contract is confirmed.

• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Make beds, change linen and keep the rooms clean and uncluttered
• Help patients bath, dress, eat and use the toilet with dignity
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose

• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent
• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely

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

• Paid training in dementia and end-of-life care
• Uniform supplied
• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities
• Overtime paid at time and a half

• Recruiters phone references for care jobs, so warn your references and check their numbers still work.
• If you're a caregiver, attach the certificate from the training provider, not just a letter saying you attended.