Are you a Registered Nurse with a minimum of 5 years’ experience? Highly advantageous to be immediately available.
A retirement facility requires your experience to cover all aspects of the role, from medication management to caring for the elderly and making a positive difference in their lives.
This is an excellent opportunity for future growth in nursing management.
Requirements:
- Valid SANC qualification/certificate
- 5 years post qualification experience working in hospitals and aged care facility
- Experience overseeing a healthcare team highly advantageous
- Good compassion and highly professional relationship builder with residents
- Attend training where required
- Vaccination ESSENTIAL
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Nursing services – attend to accurate diagnostic and maintenance of medical treatment needs of the residents
- Supervising call-out services provided by nurses and doctors for emergency or medical needs of residents
- Organisation of Doctors’ clinic and medical care assessing residents to be seen and preparing folders
- Supervision of the Nursing Team in conjunction with the Line Manager
- Managing attendance, overtime, duty rosters, incident reports etc.
- Management of time and attendance system extracting reports
- Staff discipline, grievances and performance appraisals in conjunction with HR Manager
- Assist Nursing Service Manager with tasks when required
- Schedule house visits for primary and post-operative care
- Ensure safe methods for dispensing medicines to residents
- Control and accurately maintain an inventory of the medical consumables to scope of practice
- Arranging for provision of counselling, care groups and health education required for residents
- Management and organisation of resident care carrying out required nursing procedures
- Performing dressing, vital signs, blood pressure, administering oxygen therapy etc and report abnormalities
- Planning of well-balanced diets, taking cognisance of allergies
- Managing complaints and incidents
- Control and maintain inventory of the medical consumables, medical stock sheets, stock control, storage and management of reports
- Continually ensure Compliance and a secure environment at all times
