Professional Nurse (Theatre)

This is a registered nursing post at a provincial district hospital in Brits, with your own patient load and a say in the care plan. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

You'll report in Brits. Relocation is not covered for this one.

• Monitor vital signs, fluid balance and early warning scores, and escalate changes quickly
• Supervise enrolled nurses and nursing assistants on your side of the ward
• Do wound care, catheter care and IV line management to unit protocol
• Take handover at the bedside and plan care for your allocated patients
• Report adverse events and near misses on the incident system the same day
• Take part in ward rounds with doctors and record the new orders
• Prepare patients for theatre and receive them back from recovery

• At least 1 year of post-community-service ward experience
• Clean criminal record
• Calm under pressure when a patient's condition turns quickly
• You can work 12-hour day or night shifts, weekends and public holidays

• IMCI and NIMART training for primary health care work
• Experience with electronic patient records or bedside charting systems

• Study support for post-basic specialities
• Paid SANC annual fees at some groups
• Funded CPD points and in-house clinical training

• List your speciality skills in plain words, such as "ventilated patients" or "normal deliveries", instead of just the ward name.
• Put your SANC number and the units you've worked in at the very top of your CV; recruiters filter on these first.