About the position
Our client in the Care industry is currently looking to employ a Registered Nurse based in Port Alfred.
A wonderful career opportunity awaits you.
Requirements:
- Current registration as registered nurse with SANC.
- Geriatric experience.
- Palliative care experience.
- Comprehensive clinical knowledge, particularly to age related health issues.
- Understanding of and commitment to continuous quality improvements.
- Computer literate MS Office.
- Language: English/Afrikaans, isiXhosa advantageous
- Ability to practice and manage workloads according to resident’s needs.
- Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to establish and maintain professional and appropriate relationships with residents, their families and representatives.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage care staff.
Responsibilities and expectations but not limited to:
- Work collaboratively with the Care Manager and the Interdisciplinary Care Team
- Provide quality nursing services to residents in accordance with policies and procedures, SANC code standards, code of ethics and professional conduct.
- Provide direct resident care and nursing services congruent with recognised nursing practice and procedure by carrying out a comprehensive and accurate nursing assessment of individuals and groups.
General Nursing:
- Formulate a plan of care for each resident with the primary aim of providing optimal quality of life for the residents.
- Coordinate and maintain the planning, implementation, and evaluation of care services for the residents.
- Maintaining accurate and legally appropriate documentation of nursing services
- Accept accountability and responsibility of nursing services provided by complying with:
- Company policies and procedures
- Regulation and legal guidelines and requirements
- Ensuring the consistent application of company policy framework by self and others
- Other care-related duties as directed by the manager of the Care manager.
Staff Management:
- In collaboration with the Care Manager effectively manage staff services that support resident daily living requirements by:
- Being a positive role model to EN’s, ENA’s and care workers
- Providing direction and supervision to all reporting staff
- Assisting with orientation of new staff and facilitating their ongoing with knowledge development
- Assisting staff to identify individual learning requirements and facilitating opportunities for staff development.
- Providing training and development opportunities for staff to improve job skills and effectiveness.
Resident Care:
- Provide support and assistance to maintain high quality, holistic and person-centred care services for residents by:
- Active involvement in the identification and implementation of continuous quality improvement initiatives
- Reviewing and assessing current methodologies, identifying, and implementing strategies for better care service provision
- Actively participating in and contributing to organisational meetings
- Ensure professional and articulate communication by:
- Positively interacting with staff members, residents, and their families
- Ensuring that the management team is suitably informed of any relevant issues.
- Ensuring that the Care Manager is informed of any resident incidents.
- In the absence of the Care Manager or more senior staff, assume responsibility for continuing service provision at the facility and respond to any emergencies.
Quality and Safety:
- Maintain a safe work environment in accordance with company health and safety policies and procedures.
- Assist with and support the ongoing maintenance of a safe working environment.
- Identify and report hazards in the workplace.
Privacy and Confidentiality:
- Apply the principals of privacy and confidentiality in all work practices.
- Maintain a duty of confidentiality to all staff, residents, and clients.
General Duties and Responsibilities:
- Be empathetic and courteous to residents and their relatives, always treating them with care and consideration.
- Participate fully in the performance management process and undertake Continuing Professional Development as required.
- Maintain contemporary professional knowledge and skills in clinical competency through participation in self-development activities/ programs including.
- Attending educational workshops and training
- Reviewing professional publications
- Establishing personal networks
- Benchmarking state-of-the-art practices
- Participating in professional societies
- Achieve and demonstrate agreed standards of personal and professional development within agreed timescales.
Please note should you not receive a response within two weeks of applying you may assume that your application was unsuccessful.
Desired Skills:
- Registered Nurse
- Nurse
- Geriatric experience
- registered nurse with SANC
- Palliative care experience
- Comprehensive clinical knowledge
- General Nursing
