Primary Healthcare Nursing Practitioner

About Kaelo
Kaelo provides essential healthcare solutions ensuring the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of all South Africans towards lasting social change. Kaelo meets the Healthcare needs of Corporate and Retail clients across South Africa – products offerings include Medical Insurance, Medical Aid, Gap Insurance, Kaelo Money and employee assistance programmes.

Job Description

Manage Primary Health Care Clinic Services, providing care for the community and collaborating with social care providers. Manage the accreditation process and other quality and risk management activities.

Key Outcomes

1. Health promotion and Patient Care:

• Treatment and care of people, involving interdisciplinary teams
• Illness prevention
• Chronic illness management

• Providing education and support to other providers such as Doctors and administration staff
• Community development

• In clinical or organisational contexts

• Organising clinical work environments, including infection control and risk management

• Being an agent of connectivity between different health disciplines and between patients and health services

Qualifications

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Work Experience

Required:
2 years in Primary Health Care environment
Emergency Care/ Emergency drugs
Preferred:
Professional Nurse with Primary Health Care experience

Education: Qualifications: Accreditations with Professional Body

Required:
Qualification in Primary Health Nursing
Registered with SANC and DoH
Certificate in dispensing
Preferred:
Qualification in Primary Health care

Technical Skills or Knowledge

Required:
Sound knowledge and experience in the provision of Primary Health and Emergency care
Document and records management
Computer literacy (Ms Office, Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint)
Customer orientation, focus on excellence and teamwork
Ethical behaviour
Excellent communication skills