Registered Nurse - Shift Leader

SUMMARY:
A privately-owned luxury retirement villa based in the Southern Suburbs is looking for a registered nurse – shift leader, to join their team.

POSITION INFO:

Specific duties include but is not limited to the following:

• Clinical handover
• Do morning handover according to ISBAR procedure with Shift leader on opposite shift and may delegate handover to duty Sr according to allocation.
• Ensure all reporting up to date for handover and all information checked when receiving handover.
• Administration and reporting
• Daily reporting to the NSM on any interventions during the shift
• Thorough reporting during shift change
• Ensure all staff are fully informed about all related policies and procedures.
• Allocate staff on shift according to patient needs and operational requirements and specific activities and information from the handover process.
• Do changes in staff allocation throughout the shift according to changes in needs and requirements.
• Ensure full complement of staff on duty.
• Ensure standby lists is populated.
• Performance appraisals with staff
• Medication management and administration
• Ensure all blister packaged medication is available on the trolley and medication not prescribed anymore are removed from blister pack.
• Do rounds, check for sufficient consumption and administer all medication to residents as per the scripts.
• Check for any side effects of medication and adjust accordingly by phoning the doctor and arranging for new script.
• Manage medication change process. Phone Dr to get script, send script to pharmacy, make changes on ECP and place copy on resident’s file.
• MDT and interaction with professionals
• Manage all admissions to the unit with the HCA and ensure all relevant requirements are in place and admission allocated to specific people. Bed allocation according to diagnosis and NSM input
• Manage all documentation for admission, progress and discharges in sub-acute facility with HCA (applicable only in facilities where a sub-acute license is in place)
• Ensure necessary documentation is completed and sent for review.
• Draw up discharge plan and discuss with family.
• Educate and manage staff on health and safety related issues.
• Maintain effective infection control practices.
• Stock management
• Oversee and do dressings, wound care and pressure care.
• Deal with skin lesions
• Do catheter care and flushing intervention.
• Do daily resident rounds and measure vitals.
• Ensure patients are weighed upon admission and according to care plan.
• Assess patients on specific areas of concern and adjust the care plan.
• Monitor: Mobilization, respiratory distress, neurological observations and emotional status
• Risk management
• In-house staff training
• Patient and resident emergency response

Requirements:

• Qualifications - Relevant nursing qualification as Registered Nurse, SANC registered
• BLS Up to date
• Experience - 5 -10 years of experience in nursing, experience in geriatrics advantageous, experience in a similar leadership position, recent hospital experience
• Skills and Knowledge - Strong interpersonal skills, professional communication, managerial skills, making sound decisions, computer literate, fluent in English. Dementia care, frail care, sub-acute, palliative care, rehab, strokes
• Ability to work under pressure and lead a team, professional, focused, compassion for the elderly, be able to converse with people on different levels - staff, families, MDT and other professionals coming into the facility, ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Working Hours - Normal working days are Mondays to Sundays, according to the roster. You will be required to work 16.25 shifts per month. Day shifts will be worked between 07h00 to 19h00 and night shifts between 19h00 and 07h00.

Benefits:

• Salary on offer from R30 000 per month CTC

Please email your CV to heather@------

Should you not receive a response within 48 hours of applying, please consider your application unsuccessful.

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