Professional Nurse Occupational Health at De Beers Group

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