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Nurture Health is seeking a passionate and patient-centred Locum Medical Doctor to assist with weeknight calls and weekends when required. 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.

Why Join Nurture Health?

Nurture Health exists to make it possible for people and their families to live meaningful and fulfilled lives despite physical impairment and disability resulting from health conditions.

As South Africa’s largest physical rehabilitation hospital group, we provide facility-based, post-acute healthcare outside acute hospital settings through Integrated Practices. Our success is built on experienced interdisciplinary teams working together to deliver exceptional rehabilitation outcomes for patients and their families.

Our Values

• Collaboration
• Innovation
• Communication
• Safety
• Continuous Improvement

Apply today and help shape the future of rehabilitation care.

NB: The employer reserves the right to withdraw the advertisement at any time. This is a specifically locum position and the successful candidate will be regarded as an independent contractor.