Nursing Assistant (Rehabilitation Unit)

Here you help people wash, eat, move and heal, at a private medical ward in Cape Town CBD. If you learn fast and don't mind being shown things twice, you'll settle in within a few weeks.

This post is in Cape Town CBD (Western Cape). Please only apply if you can travel there daily.

• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Keep families updated on routine matters and pass clinical questions to the sister
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Turn bed-bound patients on schedule and check pressure areas for early sores
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient

• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent
• 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
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely
• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate

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

• Overtime paid at time and a half
• Uniform supplied
• Paid training in dementia and end-of-life care
• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres

• If you're a caregiver, attach the certificate from the training provider, not just a letter saying you attended.
• Recruiters phone references for care jobs, so warn your references and check their numbers still work.