🚀 Senior Professional Nurse - Theatre

Senior Professional Nurse – Theatre

Location: Mediclinic Heart Hospital, Arcadia, Pretoria, South Africa

Closing Date: 07/11/2025

Recruiter: Dumile Khethiwe Magagula

Reference Number: 64655

Workplace Type: On-site (Permanent)

Job Type: Nursing (Full-Time)

Positions Available: 1

Role Summary

The Senior Professional Nurse supports the Unit Manager in ensuring a safe and positive client experience by mitigating clinical risks and coordinating care delivery. They further provide direct patient care, as well as mentorship to new and student nurses in the unit.

Key Responsibility Areas

• Ensure comprehensive and safe patient care by mitigating risks and meeting set clinical quality standards.
• Manage the client experience.
• Ensure optimal supply, retention, and utilisation of staffing resources.
• Empower and build staff competence through continuous assessment and development.
• Assist with the effective management of operational expenses (including stock and capital).

Required Education

• Professional Nurse qualification.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing if managing a specialist unit (e.g., Perioperative Nursing).

Desired Education

N/A

Required Experience

• Three years Professional Nurse experience in a hospital.
• Two to three years post qualification experience in Cath Lab and/or Cardio thoracic surgery.
• One year mentor experience.

Desired Experience

• Healthcare management qualification will be advantageous.

Required Job Skills and Knowledge

• Pharmacology.
• Nursing record keeping.
• Nursing processes and procedures.
• Computer literacy (Microsoft Office).
• Relevant nursing legislation.
• Infection prevention and control.
• Scientific nursing principles and process.
• Audit patient records.
• Patient assessment skills.
• Develop/modify a nursing care plan.
• Scope of practice for nurse practitioners.
• For specialised wards; ACLS; ATLS; PALS trained.
• Risk identification.
• Analysing and interpretation skills.
• Basic life support trained.
• Mentorship.

Important Notes

All applicants will be considered, with the understanding that preference will be given in accordance with the Employment Equity Plan of Mediclinic Southern Africa, as well as internal applicants/employees that meet the minimum requirements.

Please note if you are an internal employee on a fixed term contract please apply using an external candidate profile and not your employee profile.

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