Job Description

Duties/PligteRecruiting, consenting and following up with study participants. Working closely with doctors and nurses to manage patients in the wards. Completing research notes and entering them into the electronic REDCap database. Assisting with coordinating and booking special investigations, including MRI scans and echocardiography. Meeting recruitment targets. Assisting with tracing patients. Collecting, processing and storing biological specimens including blood, cerebro-spinal fluid, saliva, urine and placental samples. Working closely and maintaining good relations with other research nurses, hospital and clinic staff, field staff, study clinicians and laboratory staff. Capturing participant information electronically with high attention to detail Performing clinical nursing procedures related to our studies. Performing various administrative tasks related to our studies, including ordering consumables, drafting standard operating procedures and writing reports.



Job Requirements/Pos VereistesRegistration with the South African Nursing Council as a professional nurse. A qualified midwife. Work experience in an adult or neonatal or paediatric intensive care unit, or similar experience working in a high care setting or theatre. Work experience in obstetrics and/or paediatrics. At least two years' applicable experience. Computer literacy (MS Word and Excel) which will be assessed with a competency test if candidates reach the interview stage. Mobile phone and iPad literacy (must be able to WhatsApp, use a mobile phone to record records, send emails from a phone), which will be assessed with a competency test if candidates reach

the interview stage.Sound interpersonal skills which will be assessed if candidates reach the interview stage. Good written and verbal communication skills which will be assessed with a competency test if candidates reach the interview stage. Fluency in English and isiXhosa or Afrikaans. Phlebotomy skills: must be able to draw blood and insert intravenous cannulas. The ability and willingness to work overtime as needed.



Recommendation/AanbevelingGood Clinical Practice (GCP) accreditation. Experience in conducting research. Experience recruiting for randomised control trials. * Experience with REDCap.