
Website Life Healthcare
Job Description:
Vacancies exist for Registered Nurse (Theatre Qualified), based at Life Wilgers Hospital, reporting to the Unit Manager. The successful candidates will be responsible for assisting the surgical team to perform surgical procedures on patients successfully and to ensure that the patient receives optimal care in accordance with company and hospital strategic objectives.
Job Responsibilities:
- Ensure the theatre team works according to the scope of practice
- Maintain a healthy relationship with external stakeholders by reporting and escalating unresolved issues to the unit manager
- Ensuring that the patient is comfortable and assist the doctor during the surgical procedure
- Give feedback to the unit manager in order to assess optimal performance
- Attend review and consultative form meetings to maintain healthy relationships with internal stakeholders
- Providing theatre specific training and assessing the competence of staff
- Ensuring the disposal of medical waste in order to effectively control infection
- Ensuring the use of personal protective clothing and complying with ISO requirements
- Obtaining the correct information pre-operatively and visiting the patient post-operatively
- Ensuring the correct use of theatre equipment and instrumentation by educating and supervising staff on the correct utilisation of the equipment
- Assist the Unit Manager to correctly monitor the normal and overtime hours
- Ensuring consignment stock, equipment and prosthesis is charged according to policy
- Ensuring accurate charging by managing theatre clocking time
- Managing stock by participating in regular stock taking and controlling of the consignment stock in accordance with the hospital (local) policy
Job Requirements:
- Influencing
- Ethical behaviour
- Engaging diversity
- Verbal & written communication and presentation
- Organisational awareness
- Resilience
- Building relationships
- Customer responsiveness
- Excellence orientation
- Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
- Drive & energy
Qualification & Experience:
- Computer proficiency would be an advantage
- Cardiothoracic and/or vascular experience
- Registration with SANC
- Diploma in speciality/experience
- Relevant experience and technical skill to meet the critical outputs (Orthopaedics Scrub Nurse)
- General Nursing Degree / Diploma
- Understanding of the private healthcare industry, its challenges and role players would be an advantage
- Able to do calls
Job Details:
Company: Life Healthcare
Vacancy Type: Full Time
Job Location: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Application Deadline: N/A
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