Summary
Date Posted: Friday, June 16 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Responsibilities:
• Assists the nurse with basic nursing care activities such as bathing patients, turning, mobilizing and oral feeding.
• Prepares beds for admissions, and ensures requirements for each bed space such as oxygen and suction apparatus are available and in working order
• Carbonizes beds upon patient discharge, and cleans other unit equipment such as BP machines, infusion pumps, bedside lockers, drip stands, bed pans and procedure trolleys using infection control cleaning guidelines
• Responsible for cleanliness and tidiness of utility and linen rooms.
• Escorts stable patients to various diagnostic and procedure departments
• Assists the nurse to maintain patient’s bed space and the unit as a whole clean and tidy
• Assists the nurse manager in linen management. This includes sending dirty linen to laundry, receiving clean ones and maintaining linen inventory book
• Ensures used procedure packs are returned complete to CSSD.
• Performs messengerial duties within and outside the unit.
• Receives incoming calls and refers them to the appropriate persons.
• Alerts the nurse manager about dissatisfied clients, incidences and any other unusual occurrences in the unit.

Requirements:
• Minimum O ’level Certificate.
• Experience as patient attendant or care giver in an acute or tertiary health facility
• Training in Health Care Assistance and Heart Saver Training are an added advantage

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education: High School

Job application procedure
• Interested and qualified? Go to Aga Khan University Hospital on aku.taleo.net to apply

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