Professional Nurse

Company Description
- Join us as a Professional Nurse to play a key part in providing medical nursing support and medical care services to Anglo American and its employees within the Occupational Health Centre.

**You’ll look after our most important resource. Our people.**

Skilled colleagues and motivated teams are the life force of Anglo American because - guided by our purpose and our values - we enable both high performance and purposeful action as we aim to “re-imagine mining to improve people’s lives".

**Platinum**

**Job Description**:

- Your responsibilities will also include:

- Act as a role model and reinforce a workplace culture where safety and health for the site is paramount.
- Identify specific risks within working area and adhere to discipline-specific plans/system to avoid these risks.
- Use operational risk management systems.
- Report on critical control performance within team.
- 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.
- Treat minor ailments and injuries where feasible and refer to other resources when necessary.
- Issue medication as prescribed by the OMP
- Provide care and support for certain diseases based on business imperatives.
- Monitor and control chronic conditions impacting a worker’s ability to perform their tasks.
- Stabilise medical emergencies and refer to stepped-up care (also during stand-by shift).
- Provide certain vaccinations relevant to work exposure and business imperatives.
- Assess and sort patients according to priorities (patient triage).
- Stabilise the patients performing medical procedures such as resuscitation, ear, and eye irrigation.
- Autoclave medical procedural packs for dressing stations and ER.
- Order and maintain medication and equipment for emergency kit.

This role is at the Safety, Health & Asset Reliability department at a Band 8 level reporting to the Senior Professional Nurse.
- Qualifications
- Grade 12
- Diploma or Degree in Nursing Science
- Registered with SANC
- International trauma life support certificate

**Experience**
- 2 - 3 years’ experience in similar role
- Occupational health experience within the mining environment would be advantageous
- Knowledge of nursing processes, procedures and techniques and a good understanding of the health care policies
- Understanding of safety management, behavioural safety and risk management framework, procedures and systems
- Good understanding of the related health care policies and procedures
- Experience in good clinical practice
- Computer Skills - (MS Office)
- Additional Information
- Valid Driver’s license
- Communication skills (written and verbal) and report writing skills
- People management skills

**What we offer**

When you join Anglo American, you can expect to enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package, but more than this, you’ll find yourself in an environment where the opportunities for learning and growth are second to none. From technical training to leadership programmes, we bring out the best in our people. There are plenty of opportunities to move onwards and upwards too. We are a large, successful multinational company - and we are still growing all the time.

**Who we are**

Anglo American is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine. We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that those resources represent for our shareholders, the communities and countries in which we operate and for society at large. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.

**How we are committed to your safety**

Nothing is more important to us than ensuring you return home safely after a day’s work. To make that happen, we have the most rigorous safety standards in the industry. Not only that, we’re also continually investing in new technologies - from drones to data analytics - that are helping to make mining safer.

**Inclusion and Diversity**

Anglo American is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential.

**Covid 19**

We are in the process of undertaking a comprehensive engagement process with all our stakeholders about our intent. This is so we can tailor our approach in each country, including ensuring what we do is lawful. Once this is complete, we will look to implement the policy. There may be differences in how and when it is implemented due to local context and legal requirements **.**

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