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Ward Assistant (Contract until 31 March 2027)
Gauteng Department Of Health
🏷 Entry-Level
Requirements
- ✓Minimum Education: NQF Level 1 or 2 (Abet Level 4 Certificate or equivalent).
- ✓Experience: None required (entry-level position).
- ✓Customer Service: Provide excellent customer care to both internal and external staff/clients.
- ✓Knowledge: Must know and apply the Batho-Pele Principles (putting people first).
- ✓Communication: Possess good verbal and written communication skills.
- ✓Availability: Must be willing to work shifts, including weekends and public holidays (compulsory).
- ✓Flexibility: Must be able to rotate between different wards/departments as needed.
- ✓Personal Attributes: Honest, reliable, and trustworthy.
- ✓Physical Demands: Possess physical strength and ability to cope with the physical demands of the role.
- ✓Health & Safety: Properly apply OHS (Occupational Health and Safety) guidelines.
- ✓Teamwork: Ability to work effectively within a team.
- ✓Supervision: Must take and follow instructions from the supervisor.
About This Role
Reference Number : REFS/050051
Directorate : Nursing
Number of Posts : 60
Salary: R5 500 Per Month (Stipend)
Location : Thelle Mogoerane Regional Hospital
Closing Date : 19 June 2026
Duties :
Take the diet slip to the main kitchen, transport food trolleys from the food service unit to the wards vice versa. Serve meals and tea to patients under supervision of nursing staff, submit containers to the main kitchen, keep the kitchen clean and tidy, wash dishes in the ward, do damp-dusting of ward equipment, take unsterile equipment to CSSD, fetch sterile packs from CSSD and pack in relevant cupboards. Receive, count and pack clean ward linen. Count, sort and pack dirty/ soiled linen in linen bags. Label and tie dirty linen bags and place at relevant area, keep the sluice room equipment clean. Tie and move filled red plastics /Medical waste & sharps containers to the dedicated collection area in the ward, replace red plastics. Take orders to stores, pharmacy and fetch emergency stock and TTO’s. Adhere to Health waste Management Policy. Be able to rotate between the wards when required.
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Ward Assistant (Contract until 31 March 2027)
Gauteng Department Of Health