Hospital Ward Cleaner

You'll keep a community health clinic in Krugersdorp safe for patients by cleaning the way infection control demands. If you turn up on time and finish what you start, you'll fit in quickly.

This post is Krugersdorp-based, with most of your time spent at a community health clinic. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Take soiled linen to the sluice room and bring clean linen back
• Clean theatres between operations to the hospital's turnaround times
• Move patients' belongings and equipment when rooms change
• Clean patient rooms using colour-coded cloths and mops for each area
• Wear gowns, masks and gloves as each room requires
• Handle and bag medical waste in the right coloured bins
• Mop spills of blood or fluids using the spill kit

• Not squeamish about blood, vomit or medical waste
• Matric or Grade 11
• Able to work shifts including weekends and night duty
• Willing to follow strict infection control steps every time
• Calm under pressure in busy wards

• Previous hospital or clinic cleaning experience
• Experience as a porter or general assistant in healthcare
• An infection prevention and control short course

• Shift allowances for nights and Sundays
• Meal on shift at the staff canteen
• Medical aid option through the employer

• If you did an infection control course, attach the certificate. It moves you ahead of general cleaners.
• In the interview, explain how you clean an isolation room step by step. It is a common question and a quick way to stand out.