Are you a healthcare leader who thrives on managing complex hospital operations while empowering teams to deliver high-quality patient care?

Do you enjoy analysing performance, improving systems, and leading teams to achieve consistent, safe, and effective rehabilitation outcomes?

Are you able to translate operational insight into practical action while building an accountable, cohesive, and engaged hospital team?

If so, this role may be a great fit for you.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Hospital Manager is responsible for managing the hospital’s day-to-day operations in line with Nurture Health’s policies, processes, standards, and automated systems, ensuring that quality care is delivered through disciplined operational execution, visible accountability, and consistent follow-through.

This is a senior operational leadership role suited to a healthcare professional who can lead through others, manage complexity, and maintain consistent operational discipline across a multidisciplinary hospital environment.

This role requires a strong understanding of hospital operations as a whole. You will be expected to identify patterns, risks, and opportunities across day-to-day activities and outcomes, and translate these insights into practical actions that improve service delivery, team performance, patient care, safety, compliance, and hospital results.

You will work closely with the Chief Operating Officer, Nursing Manager, Therapy Manager, and Nurture Health support functions to ensure that the hospital operates as a cohesive, accountable, and high-performing unit. A key part of the role is keeping the Chief Operating Officer informed of hospital activities, operational risks, performance trends, and associated outcomes.


YOU WILL:

• Manage day-to-day hospital operations through Nurture Health’s policies, processes, standards, and automated systems to support consistent, quality care.
• Ensure these policies, processes, systems, operational controls, and regulatory requirements are understood, implemented, and used consistently.
• Analyse hospital operations and outcomes to identify patterns, risks, opportunities, and areas requiring action.
• Translate operational insights into practical actions that improve hospital performance, patient care, safety, service delivery, and team effectiveness.
• Monitor and report on hospital activities, performance trends, risks, and outcomes in a way that supports managerial-level decision-making.
• Keep the Chief Operating Officer informed of key operational matters, risks, actions, and outcomes.
• Lead the hospital team, including the Nursing Manager, Therapy Manager, and their respective functions, as a cohesive and accountable unit.
• Maintain strong relationships across clinical, operational, support, and stakeholder groups.
• Represent the hospital and organisation professionally, maintaining a positive hospital reputation.
• Remain connected to relevant rehabilitation, healthcare, academic, and professional structures, and participate in a structured development plan.
  

ABOUT YOU

Minimum Requirements:

• Registered with SANC or the relevant professional board of the HPCSA for your respective healthcare qualification, for example, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, or Dietetics.
• Proven experience successfully managing a therapy team of more than 5 individuals or successfully managing a ward or hospital comprising more than 25 beds.
• Strong understanding of healthcare operations, clinical environments, and rehabilitation service delivery.
• Ability to analyse operational data, identify risks and opportunities, and translate insights into practical action.
• Level-2 knowledge across all five domains of the World Health Organisation Rehabilitation Competency Framework.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• A strong people leader with a passion for individual and team empowerment, and a clear respect for its role in delivering quality healthcare.
• Professional and aligned with the core values and beliefs set out in the World Health Organisation Rehabilitation Competency Framework.
• Driven, goal-focused, and compassionate.
• Resilient, calm under pressure, and able to de-escalate high-stress situations.

ABOUT US

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.

WHAT WE DO

As South Africa’s largest physical rehabilitation hospital group, we provide facility-based, post-acute healthcare outside acute hospital settings through Integrated Practices.

Our winning recipe lies in our experienced, interdisciplinary teams who work collaboratively to achieve optimal outcomes for our patients and their families.

OUR VALUES

• Collaboration
• Innovation
• Communication
• Safety
• Continuous Improvement

The employer reserves the right to withdraw the advertisement at any time.