Staff Nurse (Night Shift)

Your care keeps residents at a home-based care agency in Randburg safe, clean and comfortable through the day. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

This post is Randburg-based, with most of your time spent at a home-based care agency.

• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Make beds, change linen and keep the rooms clean and uncluttered
• Spot confusion, falls risk or changes in mood and tell the nurse in charge

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

• Code B or Code 8 driver's licence for home visits
• Experience in a frail care or hospice setting

• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities
• Paid training in dementia and end-of-life care
• 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.
• If you're a caregiver, attach the certificate from the training provider, not just a letter saying you attended.