GFH has vacancies for a GENERAL MANAGER and an ADMINISTRATOR. Please see the ads below and send your CV to manager@gfhome.org if you would like to follow your vocation to care for the elderly by joining the GFH team.

VACANCY

General Manager: Operations and Nursing

Gerald Fitzpatrick House and Nursing Home (GFH) provides a safe haven for women over the age of 60 who have small incomes, enabling them to live dignified lives. The role for which GFH is recruiting reports directly to the executive committee of non-profit organisation that owns the home, which is called the GFH Civic Board. GFH is situated in Bertrams in Johannesburg and this is an on-site role. It requires a nursing qualification and experience, senior management skills and experience, a high level of computer literacy, as well as experience in working with the elderly and a sense of vocation. 

Key Performance Requirements:

1. Overall accountability for all aspects of GFH and its sustainability.
2. The maintenance of all governance required to maintain GFH in good standing with the Department of Social Development; the Department of Health; the South African Revenue Services; existing and potential donors and supporters; and any other entities with an interest in the governance of GFH.
3. The management of all outsourced teams and directly employed staff and reporting on their performance and activities.
4. Overall accountability for all human resources related matters at GFH, including, but not limited to, performance management, disciplinary matters, payroll management and union liaison.
5. Direct accountability for setting up, maintaining and managing relationships and service level agreements with all suppliers.
6. Direct accountability for the accuracy of financial reporting and the maintenance of financial and other controls.
7. Direct accountability for reporting to and liaising with the Department of Social Development.
8. Being an ambassador for GFH for all stakeholders, including, but not limited to, outsourced and directly employed staff; volunteers; residents; potential residents and their families; the Department of Social Development and other donors and supporters.
9. Providing regular and ad hoc information and reports to the GFH Civic Board.
10. Keeping abreast with developments in the geriatric care industry.
11. Risk and reputation management.
12. Actively managing and helping to set procedures, standards and policies to achieve the highest quality assurance.
13. Management of absenteeism and timekeeping.
14. Driving staff performance while building morale.
15. Building and maintaining optimal occupancy for sustainability.

Critical Skills and Competencies:

• Business insight, budgeting, cost control, and revenue-generating skills.
• A valid driver's license and own transport.
• MS Office skills in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and OneDrive.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate with all stakeholders, including, but not limited to, the Department of Social Development; the accountants and the auditor; the GFH Civic Board; residents and their families; and staff. 
• Empathy.
• Ablility to work under pressure and be solution focused.
• Good problem-solving skills and self-driven learning skills.
• Strong ethical standards and values, especially pertaining to confidentiality and respect.
• Leading by example.
• A strong work ethic.
• A high level of English literacy (speak, write, read and understand business and medical English).

Qualifications and Experience:

• Nursing diploma or degree.
• Valid registration with the South African Nursing Council.
• 5-10 years’ geriatric nursing and senior management experience. 

Please submit your CV and certified copies of formal qualifications to manager@gfhome.org by 25 October 2024.  No late applications will be entertained. 

If you are not contacted within 30 days of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful.

VACANCY

Administrator: Operations and Nursing

Gerald Fitzpatrick House and Nursing Home (GFH) provides a safe haven for women over the age of 60 who have small incomes, enabling them to live dignified lives. The role for which GFH is recruiting reports directly to the General Manager: Operations and Nursing (GM). GFH is situated in Bertrams in Johannesburg and this is an on-site role. It requires a nursing qualification and experience, junior management skills and experience, a high level of computer literacy, as well as experience in working with the elderly and a sense of vocation. 

Key Performance Requirements:

1. Day-to-day responsibility for maintaining the working environment.
2. Specific accountability for preventing infections, ensuring cleanliness, and facilitating treatments.
3. Acting as a leader for junior staff.
4. Providing monthly reports to the GM for Manco and the GFH Civic Board (the executive committee of the non-profit organisation that owns the home).
5. Keeping abreast with developments in the geriatric care industry.
6. Risk and reputation management.
7. Actively managing procedures, standards and policies to achieve the highest quality assurance.
8. Management of absenteeism and timekeeping.
9. Driving staff performance to maintain optimal occupancy conducive to sustainability.

Critical Skills and Competencies:

• Business insight, budgeting, cost control, and revenue-generating skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with all stakeholders, including, but not limited to residents, their families, and staff. 
• Empathy.
• Ability to work under pressure and be solution focused.
• Good problem-solving skills and self-driven learning skills.
• Strong ethical standards and values, especially pertaining to confidentiality and respect.
• Leading by example.
• A sense of calling and a strong work ethic.
• A high level of English literacy (speak, write, read and understand business and medical English).
• A valid driver's license and own transport.
• MS Office skills in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and OneDrive.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Nursing diploma or degree.
• Valid registration with the South African Nursing Council.
• 5-10 years’ geriatric nursing and junior management experience. 

Please submit your CV and certified copies of formal qualifications to manager@gfhome.org by 25 October 2024.  No late applications will be entertained. 

If you are not contacted within 30 days of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful.

SA Firebrand regularly services the home’s fire extinguishers at no cost and did so again on Monday, 8 November 2021. Keeping residents safe is paramount, so this committed help is deeply appreciated.