Workforce Nurse engagement specialist

Thornbury community services

Woodstock, Cape Town

Permanent, full time

30,000-35,000 ZAR per month dependant on experience + 5% annual bonus + medical aid

Unlock your potential:

Are you a Mental health or Learning disability Nurse looking for an office based role where you can still use your clinical expertise to make a positive difference? 

We're looking for a Nurse to join our Workforce engagement team to play a pivotal role in creating a nurturing and supportive environment for our agency nurses and support workers, who are essential in delivering care to our clients.

In this role you will foster engagement, retention, and professional development within our workforce, directly contributing to their well-being and effectiveness. Additionally, you will collaborate with our Governance team to ensure that practices and support are safe, caring, effective, responsive, and well-led, driving accountability, change, and clinical excellence within the workforce.

By integrating workforce engagement with clinical governance, you will help drive best practices and high standards, ensuring that our care services are exemplary and our workforce is well-supported, motivated and developed!

Part of Acacium Group, Xyla is an integrated healthcare solution that improves people’s lives and alleviates the demands of the UK healthcare system. Part of Xyla, Thornbury Community Services, rated outstanding in our most recent CQC inspection, provides complex care in the community. We have an outstanding, high quality reputation of being able to stabilise highly complex packages of care quickly and with the ability to minimise risk, whilst keeping the client and their families at the centre of what we do. We offer a fantastic company culture in such a rewarding environment, where everyone works towards a common goal, all teams working collaboratively and putting our clients needs at the heart of our business!

Every day you will…

• Create a supportive environment for nurses and support workers to enhance engagement and retention 
• Foster professional development opportunities for the workforce, signposting to training and upskilling opportunities that align with career aspirations of the workforce and care delivery needed for our clients
• Assist in delivering the clinical training strategy including induction training and remote delivery of skills training
• Conduct clinical skills discussions for registered nurses at recruitment and as part of ongoing compliance
• Review and sign off digital Nurse interviews for new candidates, ensuring recruitment standards are consistently met
  
• Help triage clinical support in real time so that our workforce can always speak to a clinician, and to signpost to the various support services or UK based teams to support further

What’s in it for you?

• Dedication to developing you and your career- we can give you the tools, guidance and support you need to be successful in your career
• Opportunities to enhance your experience and skillset by moving across the global organisation
• Regular events and incentives
• Competitive salary and bonus and benefits including medical aid

Join us and make a difference:

If you want to join a global, marketing-leading organisation who are committed to the human side of business, then look no further. Acacium Group is a global healthcare solutions partner offering staffing, managed services and innovative delivery models to health and social care systems and the life sciences industry. We are a business with scale, leading digital capabilities and a strong financial profile, with a vision to be the leading global healthcare solutions partner.

We are powered by the best people and have an unrivalled and diverse range of capabilities, all while incorporating our company values into everything we do - Putting People First, Always by your Side, Driven by Excellence.

Join us and play a key part of shaping the future of society and improving people’s lives!

To thrive in this role, you must...

• Be a learning disability or mental health nurse with an active SANC number 
• Have experience in working with people who present with behaviours that challenge and have complex support needs
• Have confidence in delivering training around different diagnosis within this field
• Have excellent interpersonal skills 

Employment Equity:
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.