Unit Manager (Nursing and Care)
Location: Sandringham Gardens – Johannesburg
Position Type: Full-time
Purpose of the Job
To provide supervisory leadership to nursing staff in the delivery of safe, high-quality, and holistic care to elderly residents.
Role and Responsibilities
- Supervises nursing staff to ensure quality geriatric care
- Allocates duties according to staff scope of practice and residents’ needs
- Ensures holistic care of elderly residents
- Supervises assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care
- Ensures residents’ dignity, rights, privacy, and safety
- Oversees safe administration of medication and treatments
- Ensures correct storage, control, and documentation of medication
- Monitors infection prevention and control practices
- Identifies and manages risks (falls, pressure injuries, abuse, neglect)
- Ensures accurate, legal, and confidential documentation
- Supervises use and maintenance of equipment and supplies
- Ensures compliance with policies, procedures, and nursing legislation
- Provides guidance, support, and discipline to staff
- Identifies training needs and provides in-service education
- Promotes effective communication and teamwork
- Liaises with families and the multidisciplinary team
- Acts as an advocate for elderly residents
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Registered with SANC as an Enrolled or a Professional Nurse
- Experience in acute care
- Experience in ward management is essential
- Experience in personnel management is essential
- Knowledge and experience in the field of gerontology will be an advantage
Preferred Skills
- Comprehensive clinical skills to ensure quality nursing care, including wound management and infection control
- Financial control skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Good observation and reporting skills to ensure timeous intervention on identified problems
- Ability to implement and control nursing procedures and nursing documentation
- Commitment to total quality healthcare
- Medication administration
- Wound dressing
- Participation in doctor’s rounds
- Emergency care