Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary (Frail Care)

Here you help people wash, eat, move and heal, at a hospice in-patient unit in Brackenfell. If you turn up on time and finish what you start, you'll fit in quickly.

This post is Brackenfell-based, with most of your time spent at a hospice in-patient unit.

• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse
• Keep families updated on routine matters and pass clinical questions to the sister
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises

• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate
• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely

• Overtime paid at time and a half
• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres
• Uniform supplied
• 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.