Professional Nurse (Fixed Term Contract) Wits Ezintsha

Main purpose of the job:

• To provide best practice clinical assessments, data recording, and monitoring of patients accessing services at primary health clinics
• Additionally, to provide training and mentoring to healthcare workers and audit feedback on facility performance for hypertension identification and management in patients living with HIV

Location:

• City of Johannesburg Region F

Key performance areas:

• Co-ordinate the clinic vitals areas and make sure patients have their vitals measurements taken
• Take blood pressure and other vitals measurements
• Provide measurements to patients together with explanations of their measurements
• Provide patients with educational material
• Ensure there are functioning blood pressure monitors in the clinic
• Complete any study or clinic documentation
• Train healthcare workers on HIV and hypertension guidelines and algorithms
• Train healthcare workers on the correct taking of blood pressure measurements
• Mentor facility staff on hypertension identification and management
• Conduct other clinical in-service training and quality improvement sessions with healthcare workers
• Review patient medical records and note clinical management. Provide individual feedback to healthcare workers
• Use dashboards and graphics to provide facility performance updates at routine clinic staff meetings
• Compile relevant reports and feedback on all activities
• Inform patients about IHEART-SA and/or sub-studies
• Screen potential participants and obtain informed consent according to the protocol
• Administer study questionnaires/interviews

Required minimum education and training:

• Diploma in General Nursing, Professional Nurse

Professional body registration:

• South African Nursing Council (SANC) in General Nursing

Required minimum work experience:

• Minimum 3 years nursing experience in Primary Healthcare Clinics
• 1 year of experience in quality improvement
• 1 year of training/mentoring experience
• Driver’s license

Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities:

• A diploma in Primary Health Care or similar will be an advantage
• NIMART certification advantageous
• Certificate in good clinical practice
• Be tactful, respectful and maintain confidentiality
• Good administrative skills together with working knowledge of Microsoft office
• Able to work under pressure and adhere to deadlines
• Self-motivated, able to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Respectful with sound work ethics

TO APPLY:

• Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
• Please Apply Online and complete your registration on Ditto Hire (our application tracking system) to enable and protect you as a candidate to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions. This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL. However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market.
• AJ Personnel is fully POPIA Compliant.
• Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
• The closing date for all applications: 16 March 2022.
• Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
• Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful.
• Note WHC, in accordance with their Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.
• PLEASE NOTE: Our Client, WHC - Ezintsha, maintains mandatory Covid-19 requirements, and as such only Covid-19 vaccinated incumbents will be considered for positions.

Please note:

• AJ Personnel is only responsible for the advertising of the advertisement on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium.
• AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position.