Professional Nurse Specialty (pnb1-2)
Retail, Healthcare / Pharmacy
Minimum Requirements
- Diploma/Degree in nursing or equivalent qualification that allows registration with the South African Nursing Council as a Professional Nurse.
- A post basic nursing qualification in Primary Health Care with a duration of at least 1 year, accredited with SANC.
- Current registration with SANC (2026/2027).
- Grade 1: A minimum of 4 years appropriate recognizable experience in Nursing after registration with SANC as a Professional Nurse.
- Grade 2: A minimum of 14 years appropriate recognizable experience in nursing after registration with SANC as a professional Nurse.
- At least 10 years of the period referred to above must be appropriate recognizable experience in the specific specialty after obtaining the 1-year post-basic qualification of the period referred to above.
- Valid driver’s license.
- Knowledge and Skills: Nursing care standards, processes and procedures, nursing statutes and other relevant legal frameworks such as: Nursing Act, Health Act.
- Occupational Health and Safety Act.
- Patient Rights Charter.
- Batho Pele Principles, Nursing Strategy, Public Services Regulations, Labour Relations Act, Disciplinary Code and Procedure, Grievance Procedure, etc.
- Planning and Organizing skills, Effective Communication Skills, Co-ordination skills, Collaboration Skills, Computer Skills, Time Management Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Numeracy, Report writing Skills and Facilitation Skills.
Responsibilities
- Provision of quality comprehensive community health care: provide Primary Health Care: Provide curative health care services.
- Referral to health support services. (Rehabilitation, oral health, etc, Doctors, etc, specialist).
- Evaluate and follow-up patients during clinic visits.
- Initiate treatment, implementation of programmes and evaluations of patient’s clinical conditions.
- Promoting scientific quality nursing care.
- Individual consultation sessions.
- Identify community needs.
- Initiate minor ailments treatment.
- Initiate community participation.
- Coordinate between hospital and community.
- Maintaining professional secrecy and preventing medico-legal risks.
- Attend and participate in doctors visit.
- Arrange admission and outpatient appointments.
- Function as a member of the therapeutic team.
- Continuous evaluation of nursing care and nursing services.
- Assessments of personal services delivery towards patients.
- Provision of Administration Services: plan and organize daily tasks in clinics co-operation with Clinical Manager.
- Complete and control Health Information data of all patients and activities as per policy.
- Ordering and control of stationary, medical stock, consumables as per delegation in absence of personal responsible for different services.
- Ensure safekeeping of stock and assets.
- Ordering and control of medication as necessary as per delegations in absence of pharmacist Assistant.
- Control of medication prescribed to patients as per EDI.
- Up to date knowledge of appropriate legislation.
- Regulations and departmental policies.
- Involvement with community meetings and committees in co-operations with Operational Manager.
- Identify needs for financial planning and indirect control of expenditure.
- Provision of educational services: clinical teaching, training and continuous evaluation of sub-category nursing personnel and support services in the Manager.
- Teaching patients on a one-to one basis.
- Personnel development, ie.
- Assessing in-service training needs, planning and implementing of training programme in co-operation with Clinical Manager.
- Usage of equipment and Machinery: Usage of basic medical equipment.
- Cleaning, control and safekeeping of equipment.
- Research Responsibility: To assist in the regional and departmental projects.
- Direct and indirect involvement with medical research.
- Involvement with matching research to the needs of the community.
