Theatre Cleaner (Private Hospital)

You'll keep a frail care centre in Fourways safe for patients by cleaning the way infection control demands. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

This post is in Fourways (Gauteng). Please only apply if you can travel there daily.

• Move patients' belongings and equipment when rooms change
• Take soiled linen to the sluice room and bring clean linen back
• Handle and bag medical waste in the right coloured bins
• Disinfect bed rails, call bells and bedside lockers
• Wear gowns, masks and gloves as each room requires

• Respectful and discreet around patients
• Willing to follow strict infection control steps every time
• Calm under pressure in busy wards
• Matric or Grade 11
• Up to date with vaccinations the hospital requires, such as hepatitis B

• Meal on shift at the staff canteen
• Shift allowances for nights and Sundays
• On-the-job infection control training
• Medical aid option through the employer

• If you did an infection control course, attach the certificate. It moves you ahead of general cleaners.
• Mention any hospital, clinic or old-age home work first, even if it was short. Healthcare recruiters shortlist people who know ward routines.