6 days ago
Job title : Professional Nurse Occupational Health
Job Location : Limpopo, Thabazimbi
Deadline : August 01, 2024
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Job Description:
Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- As a Professional Health Occupational Health your responsibilities will include:
Safety & Health
- Consistently apply Safety & Health principles in all team interactions and take personal responsibility for safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities
- Identify specific risks within working area and adhere to discipline-specific plans/system to avoid these risks
- Implement Safety & Health systems within work area
- Assess the ‘fitness for duty’ of team members and take any subsequent necessary action
- Engage in physical safety checks, interventions and coaching
- Report deficiencies and implement plans to address deficiencies
- Conduct continual safety audits to check that all safety requirements are being met
Performance & Delivery
- Perform daily planning of activities and tasks to ensure timeous completion of tasks ahead of deadlines
Work Management
- Conduct pre-employment and exit medical examination in accordance to medical examination protocols.
- Conduct pre-placement and transfer medicals in accordance to medical examination protocols.
- Provide a baseline health status and determining fitness for duty.
- Report and assist on all injuries on duty and occupational diseases.
- Assess the ability to work and the health status of an employee/client.
- Ensure medical records are recorded and signed.
- Assess, monitor and provide support to patients with medical problems impacting on work ability.
Feedback
- Ensure that reports are prepared according to prescribed standard and distributed to the relevant supervisor.
Sustainability & Social
- Execute delivery the sustainability activities as relevant to discipline and set out in the Life of Asset Plan to improve sustainability performance over time
- Comply with environmental and social requirements as relevant to discipline
- Implement environmental and social risk mitigation techniques as specified in the asset risk management approach as relevant to discipline
Qualifications:
- Grade 12
- Diploma or Degree in Nursing
- BTech or Diploma in Occupational Health Nursing
- Registered with SA Nursing Council as well as SASOHN (South African Society of Occupational Health Nursing)
- Certificate in Audiometry, Spirometry and Vision
- Basic Life Support certificate (advantageous)
Experience
- At least 2 years’ experience as an Occupational Health Nurse within the mining or industrial environment
- Administration and Record Keeping according to legal and ethical parameters
- Computer literate
- QMed experience would be advantageous
- Must have excellent people Skills, writing and administration skills
- Communication skills and critical thinking
- Willing & able to work overtime / be on standby as per operational requirements
- Must have a Driver’s license, and with own transport
- Certificate of Fitness
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