Enrolled Nurse (Day Clinic)

Your care keeps residents at a home-based care agency in Welkom safe, clean and comfortable through the day. If you learn fast and don't mind being shown things twice, you'll settle in within a few weeks.

The site is in Welkom; early starts mean public transport timing matters, so check your route before applying. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Keep families updated on routine matters and pass clinical questions to the sister
• Help patients bath, dress, eat and use the toilet with dignity
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Make beds, change linen and keep the rooms clean and uncluttered

• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent

• A second South African language spoken by the patients you'll serve
• Experience in a frail care or hospice setting
• Dementia care or palliative care short course

• Uniform supplied
• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres
• Paid training in dementia and end-of-life care
• 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.