Staff Nurse (Night Shift)

Your care keeps residents at a physical rehabilitation hospital in Brits safe, clean and comfortable through the day. Bring a calm head on busy days and you'll be fine.

The work is in Brits, North West, so you'll need a reliable way to get there every day. Overtime comes up in peak season and is paid.

• 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
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Spot confusion, falls risk or changes in mood and tell the nurse in charge

• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent
• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts

• A second South African language spoken by the patients you'll serve
• Experience in a frail care or hospice setting

• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres
• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities
• Paid training in dementia and end-of-life care

• 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.