Patient Care Assistant (St. Ann, Jamaica) - St. Ann's Bay Regional Hospital

 The North-East Regional Health Authority, a statutory body under the Ministry of Health & Wellness
with responsibility for the management and delivery of public health services within the parishes of St. Ann, St. Mary and Portland, is seeking a strong, dynamic, and proactive individual to fill the position of Patient Care Assistant at the St. Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital.

Summary:
Under the general direction of the Director of Nursing Services, the incumbent is responsible for the supervision of housekeeping personnel in all departments; coordinating activities to ensure areas are properly cleaned in a timely manner; preparing rosters, assigning duties, inspecting work, investigating complaints regarding housekeeping services, and taking corrective action(s).

Requirements:

• Completed Secondary School Education;
• Certificate/Diploma in Practical Nursing or its equivalent from an accredited tertiary institution;
• Training in First Aid and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR);
• Three (3) years’ experience performing similar duties.

Responsibilities will include:

• Caring of patients’ units
  
• Feeding helpless patients
  
• Collecting routine urine specimen
  
• Collecting stool specimen and any other specimen
  
• Accompanying patients for procedures
  
• Making beds, cribs and bassinets.
  
• Assisting patients to and from wheelchair/stretcher.
  
• Caring for patients’ skin, mouth, hands, and feet.
  
• Caring of pressure areas.
  
• Combing and brushes patients’ hair.
  
• Tidying patients’ environment for hand over to next shift.
  
• Preparing dressing and equipment for sterilization
  
• Assisting in admission of patients:
  
• Putting patient to bed
• Helping unpack belongings
• Ensuring custodial care of belongings according to hospital’s policy
• Assisting in discharge of patients:
  
• Returning belongings to patients/family according to hospital’s policy
• Accompanying patient to hospital’s entrance exit
• Caring of hospital equipment e.g. suction machine
  
• Maintaining sterility of pick-up forceps.
  
• Making dressings and assists with packing drums.
  

REMUNERATION PACKAGE PER ANNUM:

• Salary Scale: $ 1,792,163 – 2,130,319 per annum

Cover Letters along with resumé should be submitted no later than Friday, 2025 August 22 to:
The Director,
Human Resource Management & Development
North-East Regional Health Authority,
34-38 Ocean Village Shopping Centre,
Ocho Rios, St. Ann,

E-mail: jobs@nerha.gov.jm or Fax: (876) 795-2747

WE THANK ALL APPLICANTS FOR RESPONDING, HOWEVER, ONLY SHORT LISTED
APPLICANTS WILL BE ACKNOWLEDGED.

Nurse Anaesthetist (St. Ann, Jamaica) - St. Ann's Bay Regional Hospital (NERHA)

The North-East Regional Health Authority, a statutory body under the Ministry of Health & Wellness, with responsibility for the management and delivery of Public Health Services within the parishes of St.Ann, St. Mary, and Portland invites applications from suitably qualified individuals to fill the position of Nurse Anaesthetist for the St. Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital.

Reporting to the Supervisory Nurse Anaesthetist, the incumbent will provide more accessible and effective Anaesthesia and related care to the patients and to facilitate diagnostic, therapeutic or surgical
procedures.

The ideal candidate will meet the following educational criteria:

• BSc. in Nursing / Midwifery
• Certificate or Diploma in Anaesthesia

Key responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Interview patients and other family members to obtain an appropriate health history including biophysical and psychosocial data
• Observe and analyze physical examination
• Recommend and/or request and evaluate pertinent diagnostic studies
• Make nursing select medical or differential diagnosis and institute corrective measures
• Formulate patients specific anaesthetic plan of care based on a comprehensive patient assessment, problem analysis and the anticipated surgical or therapeutic procedures
• Select, order and/or administer pre-anaesthetic medication
• Record complete, accurate and timely pertinent information
• Induce and maintain anaesthesia at required level
• Perform tracheal intubation and extubation and provide mechanical ventilation when required
• Manage patient’s fluid, blood, electrolyte and acid base balance
• Provide post -anaesthetic care
• Provide peri-anaesthesia support

REMUNERATION PACKAGE PER ANNUM:

• Salary Scale: $5,423,316 – 6,446,618 per annum along with any other allowance(s) attached to the post.

Applications along with detailed resume should be sent no later than Wednesday, 2023 May 03 to:

The Director,
Human Resource Management & Development,
North-East Regional Health Authority,
34-38 Ocean Village Shopping Centre, Ocho Rios,
St. Ann.

E-mail: jobs@nerha.gov.jm or Fax: (876) 795–2747

WE THANK ALL APPLICANTS FOR RESPONDING, HOWEVER, ONLY SHORT LISTED
APPLICANTS WILL BE ACKNOWLEDGED.

APPLICANTS PREVIOUSLY SHORTLISTED NEED NOT RE-APPLY.