Hospital Ward Cleaner

You'll keep a day surgery clinic in Johannesburg CBD safe for patients by cleaning the way infection control demands. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

This post is Johannesburg CBD-based, with most of your time spent at a day surgery clinic. Shifts rotate, so you'll need to be flexible about days and nights.

• Move patients' belongings and equipment when rooms change
• Handle and bag medical waste in the right coloured bins
• Take soiled linen to the sluice room and bring clean linen back
• Disinfect bed rails, call bells and bedside lockers
• Clean theatres between operations to the hospital's turnaround times

• Up to date with vaccinations the hospital requires, such as hepatitis B
• Calm under pressure in busy wards
• Matric or Grade 11
• Respectful and discreet around patients
• Willing to follow strict infection control steps every time
• Able to work shifts including weekends and night duty

• Medical aid option through the employer
• Shift allowances for nights and Sundays
• Meal on shift at the staff canteen
• On-the-job infection control training

• Mention any hospital, clinic or old-age home work first, even if it was short. Healthcare recruiters shortlist people who know ward routines.
• If you did an infection control course, attach the certificate. It moves you ahead of general cleaners.