Nursing Assistant (Rehabilitation Unit)

A retirement village frail care centre in Roodepoort needs someone kind and reliable to look after patients who can't manage alone. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

This post is in Roodepoort (Gauteng). Please only apply if you can travel there daily. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Spot confusion, falls risk or changes in mood and tell the nurse in charge
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose

• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate

• Code B or Code 8 driver's licence for home visits
• 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

• If you're a caregiver, attach the certificate from the training provider, not just a letter saying you attended.
• Name the type of patients you've cared for, such as stroke patients or dementia residents, in your first CV line.