Assistent nurse looking for an adventure?
This is your once in a lifetime upportunity!
We are looking for assistant nurse/care workers who are ready for an adventure.
Start date: ASAP
You will be working in a team based around a young patient with learning and social disabilities. Task will include but not be excluded to help with any day-to-day care, activities and socialization.
The unspoiled environment of the Falkland Islands is a must-visit for anyone with a yearning to discover an off-the-beaten-track pristine destination. The archipelago is teeming with wonders of nature and wildlife, an unpolluted environment with fantastically clear blue skies, seamless horizons, vast open spaces and stunning white sand beaches. Get a visual sneak peak of the beautiful islands right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqnxTYkomTM&t=1s
King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (known locally as ‘KEMH’) is the base for most of the Islands’ medical, dental, and in-patient services. It has 29 beds, including 18 acute beds, a maternity bed, isolation unit, intensive care unit and seven long-stay beds for older people.
There are modern facilities for outpatients and community health care, a day center, two dental surgeries, and a single theatre with anesthetic room. KEMH is the only hospital on the Falkland Islands, based at St Mary’s Walk in Stanley providing secondary care for the whole Islands.
General qualification:
- Authorized nurse in your home country
- 2 years of prior experience within health care
- Experience as a personal assistant with young adults and/or patients with learning disabilities is desirable
- Can accept minimum 6 months (or longer) coherent work
- Comfortable with English (written and spoken) as main form of communication
- Can travel and work without family obligations
- Work well in groups but also individually
- That you are interested in taking an active part in the development of the department – for instance through experiences or interest for quality development.
- That you contribute equally to the teaching of students and supervision of other groups of professions as your colleagues
What vi offer
- Dedicare covers your housing and travel expenses
- Fair wages
- Stabel work schedule
- Help with visa/documentation
- Training
- Uniq nature, history and wild life
- The adventure of a lifetime!