Nurse Lead (Wits VIDA)

Main purpose of the job:

• Oversee the nursing team and all nursing functions performed on participants of the respective studies

Location:

• VIDA Laboratory - Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital

Key performance areas:

Staff Management

• Oversee and manage the VIDA clinic nursing team
• Ensure adequate nursing coverage in all clinic areas. Identify and troubleshoot any problem areas and redeploy staff as required
• Ensure consistent work of high quality is delivered in keeping with the protocol through continued training and active oversight
• Ensure adequate documented and regular training on all relevant SOPs

Participant Consultation

• Perform consultations and oversee other nurses in terms of ensuring:
  • Timeous attention to patients as referred by support staff
  • Adequate history-taking by recording main complaint; assessing the visual state of the patient; conducting vitals including
  • Temperature, Blood pressure, Blood Sugar Levels, etc. as required for patient health and in line with protocol requirements
  • Perform skilled phlebotomy as required
  • Facilitate Urine and sugar testing; Sputum collection, Pregnancy Tests; HIV Testing and counseling as required, ensuring protocol adherence
  • Refer participants to Medical Officers or others as required
  • Provide health care education to participants in line with IMCI guidelines

Administration

• Ensure adequate administration is maintained by the nursing team in terms of overseeing:
  • Adequate completion of source documentation in line with protocol requirements
  • Adequate record maintenance as required e.g. Stock counts, QC Records, Testing Records, etc.
  • Ensure sufficient stock is on hand by ordering as required and maintaining records as per project requirements

Customer Service

• Build and maintain authentic relationships with both internal and external stakeholders ensuring a high level of customer centricity
• Ensure all interactions are professional

Self-management and performance ownership

• Take ownership and accountability for tasks & activities and demonstrates effective self-management
• Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of own work are consistently and accurately maintained
• Inform relevant parties in the event of tasks or deadlines not being met and provides appropriate means of resolution
• Support and drives the business’ core values e. Maintain a positive attitude
• Respond openly to feedback
• Take ownership of own career development
• Manage colleague's and client’s expectations and communicate appropriately
• Willing to help others and go the extra mile to meet team targets and objectives
• Manage own disruptive emotions (handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact the team)

Required minimum education and training:

• Nursing Diploma (Enrolled/Professional Nurse)
• GCP Training

Required minimum work experience:

• Previous working experience in a clinical research environment
• Extensive staff management experience or demonstrated ability to oversee staff compulsory
• Excellent clinical Skills (phlebotomy on adult and paediatric patients including neonates)

Professional body registration:

• South African Nursing Council

Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities:

• Professional, proactive, friendly, helpful, empathetic, non-judgmental
• The ability to work under pressure in a high-stress environment
• Conflict management, leadership
• Time management
• High level of confidentiality

TO APPLY:

• Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
• Please Apply Online and complete your registration on Ditto Hire (our application tracking system) to enable and protect you as a candidate to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions. This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL. However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market.
• AJ Personnel is fully POPIA Compliant.
• Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
• The closing date for all applications: 02 December 2022.
• Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
• Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful.

Please note:

• Our Client, WHC - VIDA, maintains mandatory Covid-19 requirements, and as such only Covid-19 vaccinated incumbents will be considered for positions.
• WHC, in accordance with its Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.
• AJ Personnel is only responsible for advertising the advertisement on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium.
• AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position.