Enrolled Nurse (Surgical Ward)

Your care keeps residents at a home-based care agency in Gqeberha safe, clean and comfortable through the day. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

Home base is a home-based care agency on the Gqeberha side of Eastern Cape. There's a probation period of three months before the contract is confirmed.

• Turn bed-bound patients on schedule and check pressure areas for early sores
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Help patients bath, dress, eat and use the toilet with dignity
• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose

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

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

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

• If you're a caregiver, attach the certificate from the training provider, not just a letter saying you attended.
• Name the type of patients you've cared for, such as stroke patients or dementia residents, in your first CV line.