Enrolled Nurse

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Business Unit:
Discovery Health

Function:
Clinical

Date: 2 Oct 2026

Discovery – Health

Enrolled Nurse

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Home Health and Hospital at Home

Discovery Health’s Home Health and Hospital at Home offering, which gives medical aid members access to a range of benefits, delivered through their personalized care team, in the comfort of their own homes. This provides a seamless healthcare experience for patients, integrating world-class telehealth capabilities, digital tools, and sophisticated remote monitoring devices to enable real-time and continuous tracking of clinical progress and efficient delivery of care at hospital standards, with superior clinical outcomes.

We aim to recruit highly skilled nurses to ensure we have the right talent in place to support our growth and maintain the highest standards of care.

Job Purpose

To act as a self-directed practitioner who provides and evaluates the highest standard of evidence-based care to patients within their own home, founded on agreed management care plans and protocols.

This role will require you to deliver a range of assessments and interventions to patients in their own home to ensure timely treatment and facilitate early discharge and admission avoidance. Skills required for the role includes, cannulation, IV antibiotics, IV fluids, IV medications and wound care (a training programme can be offered to establish this skill set).

This role will also ensure timeous and effective communication of client needs between key stakeholders to ensure delivery of safe and quality care.

• The successful applicant will be responsible for but not limited to the following job functions:
• Act as an autonomous practitioner and perform holistic and patient centred assessments within the patients’ own home, formulating a shared management plan with the patient.
• Ensure effective and concise communication with medical teams regarding assessments.
• Provide high-quality care to patients including the ability to provide interventions such as intravenous therapies, nebulizers and wound care.
• Recognize emergency clinical situations such as anaphylaxis, cardiac and respiratory deterioration, to act appropriately knowing when to seek assistance.
• Liaise with patients, carers, and colleagues to assess the safety of a patient’s home environment, acting quickly to protect patients and staff from potential risk.
• Liaise with the multidisciplinary team to meet the patient’s additional needs (e.g., therapy services, social care teams or acute service.
• Provide effective and concise communication with Home Health and H@H team members to ensure safe handovers and continuity of care.
• Maintain comprehensive and accurate patient and service records, sharing information as appropriate and in line with POPIA.
• Onboarding of hospital at home patients.
• Setting up and removal of remote monitoring devices and troubleshooting.
• Ensuring all devices are maintained and in good working order.
• Building relationships with device vendors to manage and co-ordinate any device issues.
• To ensure that appropriate, consistent, and realistic information is provided to patients and families. To provide sensitive and complex information to relatives and…