Registered Nurse ICU

Reporting to Simone Jordaan, Unit Manager. The successful candidate will provide holistic and optimal quality nursing care to critically ill patients, maximizing a positive outcome for the customer in line with company and hospital strategic objectives.

To provide quality patient care by:

• Providing quality basic and specialized nursing care
• Continual communication with the patient and family regarding the patient's condition
• Administering medication in accordance with ethical, legal framework
• Reviewing and complying with internal policies and protocols
• Ensuring quality management systems and initiatives are conducted according to the unit specification
• Advocating the patient by motivating acuity to the case management and notifying the doctor of any limitations

• Interacting and communicating with a multi-disciplinary team
• Providing training and development to ensure personal and professional growth
• Ensuring the ICU team works according to scope of practice to utilize correct skills mix

• Managing all stock used according to unit specific policies and protocols
• Controlling and managing staff hours and leave in accordance with company policy

• Maintaining a safe and holistic patient environment to enforce infection control
• Promoting a safe and healthy working environment by completing SHEQ alerts and incident reports to the SHEQ Coordinator

• Conducting in service orientation on doctor specific preferences
• Executing doctors' requests and prescriptions after patient rounds
• Assisting multi disciplinary team members with execution of their duties

• Checking equipment and instrumentation for daily working condition and reporting defaults to Unit Manager and Clinical Engineer
• Educating and supervising staff and doctors on correct utilisation of specialised equipment and instrumentation

• Ensuring records are accurately completed and stored in accordance with legal and ethical requirements

• Relevant Degree or Diploma in Nursing with Midwifery
• Experience in ICU nursing
• Strong customer orientation, team player, energetic and well organized
• Ability to work under pressure in a continuously changing environment
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Willingness to fulfil a role in the unit according to flexi hours and call system

• Problem solving, analysis and judgement
• Resilience
• Engaging diversity
• Verbal & written communication and presentation
• Influencing
• Drive & energy
• Excellence orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Building relationships
• Customer responsiveness
• Organizational awareness
• Leading my example (Key for Managers)
• Motivating and developing people (Key for Managers)

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Closing date: Thursday, March 26, 2026

Internal applicants are requested to discuss their application with their line manager. External candidates will also be considered.

Life Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applicants who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date of this advert should consider their application as unsuccessful.