The Limpopo Department of Health Needs General workers For the EPWP Program
OPEN POSITION: General Worker X1244 Positions
REQUIREMENTS:
A) Needed Skills: Must have at least an ABET Level of Education
- Inherent requirements of job: Able to lift people of different sizes
- Ability to lift and move heavy equipment and supplies.
- Able to lift and move heavy tools and supplies.
- Comfortable using strong laundry and cleaning machines.
- Okay with handling human waste, blood, and other body fluids.
- Willing and able to lift dead bodies of different weights.
- Able to use machines like lawnmowers.
- Must be able to stand for up to 12 hours daily.
- Must be available for different shifts, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
B) Knowledge and Skills:
- Must know Batho Pele Principles and the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1993.
- Must have good communication and customer service skills.
- Must know about waste management.
MAIN KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:
- Perform any of the following duties and/or any other general duties as allocated and directed from time to time per operational needs of the facility:
A) PORTER
- Transport patients using stretcher or wheelchair to / from wards or departments or any other area of the health facility.
- Take corpses to the mortuary.
- Clean / wash stretchers and wheelchairs.
B) LAUNDRY AID
- Deliver laundry to hospitals, clinics, and ambulance services.
- Properly manage, accept, and send out clean and dirty linens to different areas, following health rules.
- Clean the laundry area and machines every day.
- Always follow safety rules.
C) MORTUARY ATTENDANT
- Provide mortuary services: take in, handle, and store bodies.
- Make sure the mortuary refrigerator is working well.
- Gather and move bodies to the mortuary.
- Tell your supervisor right away if any equipment is broken.
- Safe keeping of equipment.
- Ensure infection, prevention and control environment in line with relevant policies
- Perform household activities within the mortuary
- Perform cleaning services
- Render sluice functions (human excreta fluids including blood) including preparation of corpses
D) WARD ATTENDANT
- Perform household activities within the ward
- Perform cleaning services
- Render sluice functions (human excreta fluids including blood).
E) CLEANER
- Perform cleaning services in offices, passages , ablution facilities etc
- Emptying dustbins & picking up waste.
- Perform any other cleaning duties
