About the SANBS Vacancies in South Africa

These SANBS Vacancies in South Africa are with the South African National Blood Service (SANBS), a non-profit organisation that collects, tests, processes, and distributes blood products to hospitals and healthcare facilities across South Africa. SANBS is a mission-critical healthcare organisation — every role contributes to patient safety and the availability of safe blood. For 2026, SANBS is recruiting across clinical, laboratory, technical, administrative, and support functions at facilities and mobile units across the country.

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Available Positions

This round of SANBS Vacancies in South Africa covers clinical, laboratory, technical, and administrative roles, offering genuine opportunities at many levels within a life-saving national organisation.

Clinical and donor-care roles include Donor Care Officer (Kimberley, Northern Cape — remuneration R480,901/yr), Relief Donor Care Officer, Donor Recruiter (×2), Enrolled Nurse, and Clinic Packer. Laboratory roles include Blood Bank Technologist, First Line Processing Technician, Inventory Technician, General Laboratory Assistant: Blood Bank (×3), and Refrigeration Technician.

Administrative and support roles include Administrators and an ICT Administrator. The Dispatch Controller post manages blood product dispatch logistics. Together these SANBS Vacancies in South Africa span the full operational spectrum of a national blood service, from clinical donor collection to laboratory processing, cold-chain logistics, and IT support.

The Donor Care Officer in Kimberley carries a published remuneration of R480,901 per annum, making it one of the few roles in this database with a fully transparent, publicly stated salary.

SANBS is one of South Africa’s most mission-critical healthcare organisations, and working there is genuinely meaningful work. Every blood donation collected, tested, and distributed saves a life — so whether you are a Donor Care Officer drawing blood, a lab technician processing units, or an administrator keeping records, your contribution has direct patient-safety impact.

Key Skills & Requirements

Across these SANBS Vacancies in South Africa, SANBS looks for:

Professional nursing registration and phlebotomy skills for donor-care roles.
Medical-technology or laboratory-science qualifications for blood-bank roles.
Refrigeration or technical qualifications for the refrigeration technician post.
Administrative accuracy and IT skills for admin and ICT roles.
A genuine commitment to patient safety and donor care across all roles.
Physical fitness and willingness to travel to mobile blood drives.

Requirements & Eligibility

Grade 12 / Matric (minimum for support and admin roles).
A relevant nursing, laboratory, or technical qualification for clinical and specialist roles.
HPCSA registration where required.
A valid driver’s licence for mobile donor-care roles.
South African citizen with a valid ID and clear criminal record.

For candidates targeting SANBS, the practical move is to foreground your nursing registration and phlebotomy experience for donor-care roles, lead with your HPCSA registration and lab experience for blood-bank roles, and check the live portal for the latest vacancy status and closing dates.

Working Across South Africa

These SANBS Vacancies in South Africa are available at SANBS facilities across South Africa, including Kimberley (Northern Cape) for the Donor Care Officer role and regional blood service centres and mobile units in other provinces. SANBS’s national footprint means opportunities in many regions.

The Donor Care Officer salary of R480,901 per annum is also notable. Explicitly published government-style salaries in the non-profit healthcare sector are relatively rare, and this figure gives candidates real information to make an informed decision — exactly the kind of transparency a job board should highlight.