Nursing Assistant (Rehabilitation Unit) – Immediate Start

Here you help people wash, eat, move and heal, at a private medical ward in Midrand. Bring a calm head on busy days and you'll be fine.

This post is Midrand-based, with most of your time spent at a private medical ward.

• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Turn bed-bound patients on schedule and check pressure areas for early sores
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Help patients bath, dress, eat and use the toilet with dignity
• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse

• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate
• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care

• Experience in a frail care or hospice setting
• Dementia care or palliative care short course

• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities
• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres
• Uniform supplied
• Overtime paid at time and a half

• 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.