Nursing Assistant (Rehabilitation Unit) – Fixed-Term

You'll give hands-on nursing care at a physical rehabilitation hospital in Boksburg, working alongside registered nurses. If you learn fast and don't mind being shown things twice, you'll settle in within a few weeks.

Home base is a physical rehabilitation hospital on the Boksburg side of Gauteng.

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

• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely
• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts

• Experience in a frail care or hospice setting
• A second South African language spoken by the patients you'll serve
• Code B or Code 8 driver's licence for home visits

• Uniform supplied
• Overtime paid at time and a half
• 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.
• If you're a caregiver, attach the certificate from the training provider, not just a letter saying you attended.