Shift Leader - Registered Nurse

Faircape Health provides the full continuum of care across six world class healthcare facilities, each located within our luxury retirement villages.

Our long term care centres offer a structured, supportive environment for residents requiring ongoing nursing care, including frail care, dementia care, and palliative support. With a strong focus on dignity, comfort, and quality of life, our multidisciplinary teams work closely together to ensure each resident receives personalised, consistent, and compassionate care in a safe and well managed setting.

The services of an experienced, compassionate Shift Leader - Registered Nurse (Night) is required on a permanent basis at our facility, Onrus Manor in Hermanus.

The successful incumbent will be responsible for delivering high quality nursing care, ensuring patients receive appropriate clinical attention and that care plans are accurately implemented and maintained.

This position is based in Hermanus, Western Cape. If you are looking to be part of a dynamic and collaborative environment within a multidisciplinary team of primary and allied healthcare professionals, then this is the opportunity for you.

If you are passionate about making a meaningful difference in patients' lives, this is an opportunity not to be missed.

Clinical Handover:

• Participate in handovers according to ISBAR procedure
• Ensure all reporting is up-to-date and accurate during handovers

Medication:

• Administer medication to residents as per allocation
• Monitor scheduled drugs
• Conduct weekly drug checks
• Ensure blister packaged medication is available, checked, and signed off by two Registered Nurses
• Escalate and report any adverse effects to the doctor for intervention and treatment

Patient Nursing Care Plan:

• Assess patients' health conditions, including vital signs, medical history, and symptoms
• Implement nursing care plans in collaboration with the Nursing Service Manager and MDT
• Adjust care plans as required

Clinical Tasks:

• Perform clinical functions within scope of practice, including wound care, pressure care, ostomy care, management of skin lesions, catheter care, and patient monitoring
• Conduct regular resident rounds to ensure quality of care
• Identify areas of concern and elevate where required
• Ensure doctor's prescriptions and therapy recommendations are implemented

Risk Management:

• Maintain effective infection control practices
• Follow all emergency and incident management procedures

Qualifications:

• SANC registered as a Registered Nurse
• Up to date Basic Life Support certification is advantageous

Experience and Knowledge:

• Proven experience as a Registered Nurse
• Experience in a geriatric environment is advantageous
• Knowledge of dementia care, frail care, and palliative care is advantageous

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Dependable and proactive
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Sound clinical judgement and decision making ability
• Critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Computer literate

Working Hours:

• Normal working days are Monday to Sunday.
• You will be required to work 16.25 shifts per month.
• Night shifts are from 19h00 to 07h00.

• Above market related salaries - we pay for excellence
• Quarterly performance bonuses
• Minimum of two Sundays per month, with public holiday pay offered in addition to your cost to company package
• Long service leave
• Discount on our internet (ISP) packages