Department of Health Gauteng Jobs, 18 Posts

December 16, 2025 Phindile Maseko Vacancies 0

Auxiliary Worker

Reference Number: REFS/024317 | Directorate: Quality Assurance | Number of Posts: 7 | Package: R138,486.00 per annum (plus benefits) | Location: Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital | Deadline: 24‑12‑2025

About the Role

  • Grade 12 qualification required – no prior experience needed.
  • Basic knowledge of health customer‑service procedures, health and safety, planning and organisation.
  • Good communication, basic literacy and numeracy, interpersonal skills, and ability to liaise with stakeholders.
  • Capable of working under pressure, in a team, and handling routine tasks independently.
  • Knowledge of the Patients’ Rights Charter and Batho Pele principles is essential.
  • Willingness to rotate duties, work shifts, weekends, holidays, and perform physical labour.
  • Legal requirement to wear appropriate protective clothing.
  • Preferred: Grade 10 or equivalent, 1 year hospital experience, and computer literacy.

Key Duties

  • Welcome and escort patients and visitors, maintain order in waiting areas.
  • Screen and fast‑track vulnerable patients; direct them to appropriate departments.
  • Complete waiting‑time monitoring tools accurately each day.
  • Identify and report bottlenecks or safety issues to management.
  • Ensure supplies (drinking water, cups, forms) are stocked; check cleanliness and equipment.
  • Provide health talks to waiting patients and support multidisciplinary team communication.
  • Assist departments in meeting objectives, resolve minor complaints and, when appropriate, escalated them.
  • Attend PMDS meetings, training programmes, and additional duties as assigned.

Employer: Department of Health

Enquiries: Ms M. Mthezuka‑Kganakga – Tel: 011 488 4600 / Ms L. Maseko – Tel: 011 488 3711

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Laundry Worker

Reference Number: REFS/024316 | Directorate: Logistics Department | Number of Posts: 38 | Package: R138,486.00 per annum (plus benefits) | Location: Johannesburg Provincial Laundry | Deadline: 24‑12‑2025

About the Role

  • ABET Level 02 or equivalent – no experience required.
  • Basic knowledge of laundry procedures.
  • Good communication, basic literacy and numeracy, interpersonal skills and ability to perform routine tasks.
  • Capable of working under pressure and as part of a team.
  • Willingness to rotate shifts, work weekends, public holidays, and perform physical labour.
  • Legal requirement to wear protective clothing.

Key Duties

  • Sort and count dirty linen from various hospitals.
  • Prepare and deliver clean linen to clients.
  • Assist with laundry machines and equipment.
  • Receive soiled linen and deliver clean linen to hospitals and clinics.
  • Pack clean linen into trolleys and bags.
  • Keep the laundry area clean and tidy.
  • Carry out additional duties as delegated.

Employer: Department of Health

Enquiries: Ms L. Maseko – Tel: 011 488 3711 / Mr H.B. Ferreira – Tel: 011 488 4700

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Porter

Reference Number: REFS/024315 | Directorate: Logistics Department | Number of Posts: 11 | Package: R138,486.00 per annum (plus benefits) | Location: Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital | Deadline: 24‑12‑2025

About the Role

  • Grade 12 – no experience required.
  • Basic knowledge of porter duties, cleaning equipment and the working environment.
  • Good communication, basic literacy and numeracy, interpersonal skills and ability to carry out routine tasks.
  • Capable of working under pressure and in a team.
  • Willingness to rotate shifts, work weekends, public holidays and perform physical labour.
  • Legal requirement to wear protective clothing.
  • Preferred: ABET Level 4 with up to 2 years experience and customer‑relations skills.

Key Duties

  • Provide 24‑hour portering services.
  • Transport patients using wheelchairs and stretchers.
  • Assist with transporting corpses to the mortuary when required.
  • Ensure emergency stretchers and wheelchairs are ready at all times.
  • Load and unload patients from ambulances and vehicles.
  • Follow instructions from supervisors and work collaboratively.

Employer: Department of Health

Enquiries: Mr E. Sithole – Tel: 011 488 4116 / Ms L. Maseko – Tel: 011 488 3711

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Messenger (Medical Records)

Reference Number: REFS/024314 | Directorate: Finance | Number of Posts: 8 | Package: R138,486.00 per annum (plus benefits) | Location: Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital | Deadline: 24‑12‑2025

About the Role

  • Grade 12 – no experience required.
  • Basic numeracy, literacy, verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Knowledge of messenger services, planning, organising and routine tasks.
  • Knowledge of Batho Pele principles.
  • Preferred: willingness to work shifts and public holidays, team working and stress management.

Key Duties

  • Collect files from clinics, wards and casualty.
  • Confirm that all files are registered in the control register.
  • Sign for files collected from wards, refusing loose documents.
  • Deliver files to the appropriate departments.
  • Rotate through different sections as required.

Employer: Department of Health

Enquiries: Ms G. Netshiavha – Tel: 011 488 4380 / Ms L. Maseko – Tel: 011 488 3711

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Property Caretaker

Reference Number: REFS/024312 | Directorate: Logistics Department | Number of Posts: 5 | Package: R138,486.00 per annum (plus benefits) | Location: Johannesburg Provincial Laundry | Deadline: 24‑12‑2025

About the Role

  • Grade 12 – no experience required.
  • Basic knowledge of laundry working procedures.
  • Basic numeracy, literacy, good communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work under pressure, as part of a team, and perform physical labour.
  • Willingness to rotate shifts and work weekends, public holidays.
  • Legal requirement to wear protective clothing.
  • Preferred: two (2) years experience in industrial laundry and ability to handle intensive labour production lines.

Key Duties

  • Maintain clean factory floors and trolleys.
  • Assist with collecting, sorting and counting soiled and clean linen.
  • Wash, iron, press, fold, pack and dispatch linen to clients.

Employer: Department of Health

Enquiries: Mr H.B. Ferreira – Tel: 011 488 4700 / Ms L. Maseko – Tel: 011 488 3711

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Cleaner

Reference Number: REFS/024311 | Directorate: Logistics Department | Number of Posts: 51 | Package: R138,486.00 per annum (plus benefits) | Location: Johannesburg Provincial Laundry | Deadline: 24‑12‑2025

About the Role

  • Grade 12 – no experience required.
  • Knowledge of cleaning procedures and equipment.
  • Basic numeracy, literacy, good communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work under pressure and as part of a team.
  • Willingness to rotate shifts, work weekends, public holidays and perform physical labour.
  • Legal requirement to wear protective clothing.

Key Duties

  • Clean floors, doors, walls, windows, beds, lockers and steps.
  • Perform indoor and outdoor cleaning duties.
  • Operate cleaning equipment such as polishing machines.
  • Use cleaning chemicals safely.
  • Assist with any additional duties as delegated.

Employer: Department of Health

Enquiries: Ms D. Tsotetsi – Tel: 011 484 4025 / Ms L. Maseko – Tel: 011 488 3711

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Food Service Aid

Reference Number: REFS/024309 | Directorate: Human Nutrition | Number of Posts: 10 | Package: R138,486.00 per annum (plus benefits) | Location: Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital | Deadline: 24‑12‑2025

About the Role

  • Grade 12 – no experience required.
  • Knowledge of basic food‑service procedures.
  • Basic numeracy, basic literacy, organisational skills and routine task capability.
  • Good verbal communication and capability to work in a team.
  • Willingness to work shifts, public holidays, under pressure and in a team.
  • Preferred: previous food preparation experience and diet knowledge in hospitals.

Key Duties

  • Attend orientation training in the cook‑freeze meal system.
  • Pack and distribute frozen plated meals.
  • Assist with food preparation – cooking, salads, snacks, soups, porridges, fluid diets.
  • Set ward kitchen trolleys and reconstitute frozen meals.
  • Serve food and beverages to patients.
  • Collect trolleys, wash dishes and operate food‑service equipment.
  • Apply hygiene and safety measures; report waste and losses.
  • Communicate with colleagues, supervisors, patients and hospital staff.
  • Relieve in all food‑service areas and attend continuous training.

Employer: Department of Health

Enquiries: Ms Saskia Rodrigues – Tel: 011 488 3607 / Ms L. Maseko – Tel: 011 488 3711

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Linen Assistant (Linen Room)

Reference Number: REFS/024306 | Directorate: Logistics | Number of Posts: 1 | Package: R138,486.00 per annum (plus benefits) | Location: Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital | Deadline: 24‑12‑2025

About the Role

  • ABET Level 02 or equivalent – no experience required.
  • Added advantage: Grade 12 with up to 2 years of laundry experience, good communication and writing, customer‑relations and problem‑solving.
  • Basic knowledge of laundry procedures.
  • Basic numeracy, literacy, good communication and interpersonal skills.

Key Duties

  • Receive clean linen from the main laundry.
  • Sort and distribute clean linen to wards and clinics.
  • Collect, sort, and pack soiled, infectious and contaminated linen into colour‑coded bags.
  • Sluice heavily soiled linen and pack it into bags.
  • Maintain cleanliness of storage areas, linen rooms, trolleys and shelves.
  • Ensure all staff wear PPE and uniforms.
  • Follow supervisors’ instructions.

Employer: Department of Health

Enquiries: Mr K. Marole – Tel: 011 488 3615 / Mr A.K. Malanga – Tel: 011 488 3919

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Security Guard

Reference Number: REFS/024304 | Directorate: Logistics | Number of Posts: 5 | Package: R163,680.00 per annum (plus benefits) | Location: Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital | Deadline: 24‑12‑2025

About the Role

  • Grade 12 – no experience required.
  • Preferred: Basic Security Officer course, Basic Education and Training (NQF Level 03).
  • Knowledge of access control, equipment and store movement control.
  • Knowledge of prescribed security procedures (Access Control Act, Criminal Procedure Act, Protection of Information Act, MISS) and officers’ authority.
  • Knowledge of emergency procedures.

Key Skills

  • Excellent communication and report writing.
  • Strong interpersonal and client‑relationship skills.
  • Ability to keep confidentiality, strong professionalism and no criminal record.

Key Duties

  • Control access: check appointments, reference visitors, complete registers, escort visitors, conduct searches and prevent unauthorised items.
  • Ensure safety through patrols, hazard identification, leak reporting, lighting checks, emergency support, medical personnel assistance and wearing uniform at all times.
  • Prevent unauthorised movement of equipment, documents and stores across the building.
  • Operate control room, keep equipment functioning, answer calls, update registers and report incidents.

Employer: Department of Health

Enquiries: Mr T.M. Paledi – Tel: 011 488 3071 / Ms L. Maseko – Tel: 011 488 3711

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Operator (Medical Instrument Handling)

Reference Number: REFS/024301 | Directorate: Nursing Department | Number of Posts: 18 | Package: R163,680.00 per annum (plus benefits) | Location: Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital | Deadline: 24‑12‑2025

About the Role

  • Grade 12 – no experience required.

Key Duties

  • Receive unsterile packs from wards and check completeness.
  • Wash instruments, pack, autoclave and issue sterile packs.
  • Pack, autoclave, and wash towels, gowns and small packs.
  • Handle cooled items and store them in the sterile area.
  • Clean and damp‑dust allocated departmental areas.
  • Adhere to IPC and OHS, report challenges, and perform delegated duties.

Employer: Department of Health

Enquiries: Mr G.N.B. Moeng – Tel: 011 488 3424 / Ms L. Maseko – Tel: 011 488 3711

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Store Assistant

Reference Number: REFS/024295 | Directorate: Supply Chain | Number of Posts: 1 | Package: R163,680.00 per annum (plus benefits) | Location: Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital | Deadline: 24‑12‑2025

About the Role

  • Grade 12 – no experience required.
  • Basic work procedures, equipment and courier services knowledge.
  • Ability to physically move and distribute inventory.
  • Ability to work under pressure and as part of a team.

Key Skills

  • Basic numeracy, communication, literacy, interpersonal skills, organising ability and proficiency with photocopy machines.

Key Duties

  • Distribute stock to various hospital departments.
  • Move assets in and out of wards and offices.
  • Assist with stock‑take and discrepancy investigations.
  • Housekeep and pack storerooms.
  • Manage receiving, storage and distribution of medical consumables and equipment.

Employer: Department of Health

Enquiries: Mr L. Mpya – Tel: 011 488 3571 / Ms L. Maseko – Tel: 011 488 3711

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Laundry Supervisor

Reference Number: REFS/024285 | Directorate: Johannesburg Laundry | Number of Posts: 10 | Package: R193,359.00 per annum (plus benefits) | Location: Johannesburg Provincial Laundry | Deadline: 24‑12‑2025

About the Role

  • Grade 10 or ABET Level 04 – qualification required.
  • Computer literacy.
  • Able to work under pressure and in shifts, including public holidays.
  • Strong communication, numerical, organising and supervisory skills.
  • Three years of relevant experience.

Key Duties

  • Supervise laundry workers and manage workforce.
  • Assist with PMDS and IDC compliance.
  • Prepare and distribute clean linen.
  • Oversee sorting, counting and cleaning of laundry areas.
  • Conduct staff meetings and perform delegated duties.

Employer: Department of Health

Enquiries: Mr H.P. Van Zyl – Tel: 011 484 2627 / Mr A.K. Malanga – Tel: 011 488 3919

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