Job Openings at Nurture Health

Job Description

• Nurture Health is seeking a compassionate, accountable, and patient-centred Registered Nurse to join our interdisciplinary rehabilitation team. Reporting to the Nursing Manager, you will play a critical role in delivering high-quality nursing care, optimising patients’ clinical status, and enabling meaningful participation in rehabilitation programmes. You will work collaboratively with healthcare professionals, patients, and families to achieve exceptional rehabilitation outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute and coordinate nursing care plans, allocate and delegate nursing activities, and monitor patients’ clinical status to ensure safe, effective care.
• Manage medication administration, emergency equipment, emergency responses, wound and continence care, and support safe patient discharge processes.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team, educate patients and families, contribute to clinical decision-making, and maintain accurate clinical reporting.

Requirements

• Registered with the South African Nursing Council as a Professional Nurse, with proven experience managing medically complex patients in a high-demand clinical environment.
• Strong clinical assessment, nursing leadership, delegation, communication, and rehabilitation-focused care planning skills, with the ability to influence interdisciplinary decision-making.
• Passionate about rehabilitation and patient wellbeing, committed to professional ethics, teamwork, continuous learning, adaptability, accountability, and calm decision-making under pressure.
   

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Job Description

• Nurture Health is seeking a passionate and patient-centred Speech Therapist to join our interdisciplinary rehabilitation team for August to September 2026. Reporting to the Therapy Manager, you will help patients regain communication and safe swallowing, enabling improved independence and quality of life through evidence-based rehabilitation interventions for a term of two months. 

Key Responsibilities

• Assess communication, swallowing, cognitive-linguistic, and functional abilities; develop and implement individualised therapy plans.
• Deliver interventions for communication and feeding, prescribe augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) solutions, and provide caregiver education and training.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team, maintain accurate records and billing, support discharge planning, and contribute to patient-centred decision-making.

Requirements

• Registered with the HPCSA Board for Speech, Language and Hearing Professions in the category Independent Practice (Speech Therapist), with experience in physical rehabilitation settings.
• Strong expertise in dysphagia, aphasia, cognitive and motor speech rehabilitation, tracheostomy management, AAC, and caregiver education.
• Passionate about rehabilitation, committed to ethical practice and continuous learning, and demonstrates accountability, empathy, teamwork, adaptability, and professionalism.

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Job Description

• Nurture Health is seeking a passionate and patient-centred Occupational Therapist to join our interdisciplinary rehabilitation team. Reporting to the Therapy Manager, you will help patients relearn or adapt everyday activities to improve independence, participation, and quality of life. You will collaborate with healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality rehabilitation services and meaningful patient outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess patients’ functional participation and develop, implement, and monitor individualised occupational therapy treatment plans to improve independence and rehabilitation outcomes.
• Deliver interventions including ADL retraining, neurorehabilitation, cognitive rehabilitation, upper limb rehabilitation, splinting, wheelchair seating, vocational rehabilitation, and the prescription of assistive devices and equipment.
• Conduct home and workplace assessments, provide caregiver and patient education, collaborate with the interdisciplinary team on patient-centred goals, and maintain accurate clinical documentation and billing records.

Requirements

• Registered with the HPCSA Board for Occupational Therapy, Medical Orthotics and Prosthetics, and Arts Therapy in the category Independent Practice.
• Proven experience in physical rehabilitation, with strong clinical reasoning, holistic functional assessment, communication, and interdisciplinary collaboration skills.
• Sound knowledge of the Health Professions Act, Occupational Therapy Scope of Practice Regulations, HPCSA and OTASA guidelines, with a commitment to professionalism, empathy, accountability, teamwork, and continuous learning.

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Job Description

• Nurture Health is seeking a passionate and patient-centred Medical Doctor to join our interdisciplinary rehabilitation team for the fixed-term period of 24 August 2026 – 31 January 2027. Reporting to the Therapy Manager, you will play a critical role in optimising patients’ clinical status and enabling their active participation in rehabilitation programmes. You will work collaboratively with a diverse team of healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality rehabilitation care and achieve meaningful patient outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose, and manage patients’ rehabilitation medicine needs, including medically complex cases, while optimising their participation in rehabilitation programmes.
• Plan, implement, and monitor rehabilitation medicine interventions, prevent and manage secondary complications, and ensure compliance with clinical governance standards and organisational policies.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to establish patient-centred goals, contribute to clinical decision-making, and educate patients and families on rehabilitation prognosis, progress, and expected outcomes.

Requirements

• Registered with the HPCSA Medical and Dental Professions Board in the category Independent Practice (General Practitioner), with proven experience working within an interdisciplinary healthcare environment.
• Strong clinical reasoning, holistic patient assessment, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence multidisciplinary decision-making and deliver patient-centred care.
• Passionate about rehabilitation, committed to continuous learning and professional development, and demonstrates accountability, empathy, adaptability, and professionalism.