Clinical Consultant

Discovery

Clinical Consultant/ Registered 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 in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Hospital at Home

Discovery Health’s Hospital at Home programme provides medical scheme members with access to a comprehensive range of hospital‑level benefits delivered in the comfort of their own homes. Care is coordinated through a personalised multidisciplinary team, ensuring a seamless and patient‑centred healthcare experience. The model integrates advanced telehealth capabilities, digital clinical tools, and sophisticated remote‑monitoring devices that enable real‑time, continuous tracking of each patient’s clinical status. This allows for efficient, high‑quality care that meets hospital standards and supports superior clinical outcomes.

Key purpose 

This role requires a self‑directed, autonomous Nurse who is able to deliver and evaluate the highest standard of evidence‑based care to patients in their own homes, in alignment with agreed management plans, clinical pathways, and organisational protocols. The Nurse will provide a broad range of assessments and interventions within the home environment to ensure timely treatment, support early discharge from hospital, and prevent unnecessary admissions. Required competencies include IV cannulation, administration of IV antibiotics, IV fluids, and IV medications, urinary catheterisation, palliative care, and wound care. In addition, the role is responsible for the end‑to‑end onboarding of new clients, ensuring that all processes are completed timeously, accurately, and to a high standard. This includes maintaining effective communication with all key stakeholders to support the safe, coordinated, and high‑quality delivery of care.

Key Outputs 

The successful applicant will be responsible for but not limited to the following job functions:

• The role requires flexibility and availability to work shifts that align with treatment regimes typically delivered in a hospital setting, as prescribed by the treating doctor. This is not an office‑based position and does not follow standard office hours.
• Act as an autonomous practitioner and perform holistic and patient centered 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 management of syringe drivers.
• 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 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 relationship with device vendor 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 patients. Provide education to member and family on programme and devices.
• Facilitating medication collection and stat treatments for patients admitted into hospital at home.
• Ability to adapt easily to changing circumstances as the job functions constantly change depending on business requirements.
• Effective decision-making capabilities, identifying clinical risks through the application of clinical knowledge and protocols, legislation, standard operating procedures (SOP’s), service level agreements (SLA’s) and the client’s benefit structure.
• Providing on call and after-hours support to doctors, oversight panel and members admitted.
• Work as part of a team and provide support in the development of team members and the service as a whole. 

Competencies: 

• Strong clinical skills
• Excellent client communication skills
• Must be a strong collaborator, team player and individual contributor.
• Ability to work cohesively in a team environment while balancing multiple priorities.
• Able to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable and effective workplace.
• High level of attention to detail, resilience, enthusiasm, energy and drive.
• Positive, can-do attitude focused on continuous improvement.
• Able to work under pressure and commitment to consistent high-quality delivery.

Experience, qualifications, and mandatory requirements:

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Nursing from a recognized institution.
• Minimum of 3 years’ clinical experience in one or more high‑acuity environments: Trauma, ICU, Anaesthetics, or Dialysis.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and fully computer‑literate, with the ability to work confidently on digital clinical systems and mobile platforms.
• Valid Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, current and compliant with the relevant accreditation body.
• Own reliable transport, suitable for travelling between patient homes across designated service areas.
• Valid driver’s licence, held for a minimum of 2 years, with the ability to travel independently as required by operational needs.
• Flexibility to work shifts aligned to clinical treatment regimes prescribed by the treating doctor. This is not an office‑based role and does not follow standard office hours.
• Demonstrated willingness to adapt to evolving processes and to confidently adopt new technologies. The role requires full understanding that real‑time location monitoring during duty hours is a mandatory operational requirement. Nurses must download, access, and actively use our scheduling application on their own Apple or Android device to enable this functionality.
• Willingness to support additional Home Health service offerings as needed, in line with operational requirements. This includes adapting to changing workflows, processes, and care models to ensure seamless service delivery where demand arises.

Advantageous:

• Demonstrated skill in IV cannulation, wound care, and pain management.
• Proven experience in delivering high‑quality patient care across various clinical settings.
• Prior experience working as a Home‑Based Care Nurse.
• Exposure to a wide range of therapeutic disciplines, enabling holistic and integrated patient management.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   
                             
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.