Duties and Responsibilities:

• Diagnosing, caring and treating diseases;
• Performing medical and surgical procedures;
• Preparing and responding to emergencies and disasters;
• Participating in management of medicines, medical instruments and equipment;
• Providing health education;
• Maintaining medical records,
• Health information and data;
• Counselling patients and their relatives on diagnoses and bereavement;
• Teaching and coaching medical students, nursing students and clinical officer interns;
• Preparing requisite documents for registration; and
• Any other lawful duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade a candidate must have:

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B; Ch.B.) degree from a recognized institution in Kenya;
• Successfully completed one (1) year Internship from a recognized institution;
• Registration license from the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board;
• Valid practicing license from Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board; and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 49,000x 2,170 – 51,170 x 2,550 – 53,720 x 2,650 – 56,370 x 2,750 – 59,120 x 2,920 – 62,040 x 3,080 – 65,120 p.m.

Duties and responsibilities 

• Screening prescriptions for legal validity, drug contraindications, drug interactions, appropriateness of dose, frequency and duration of dosing and patience convenience;
• Preparing and dispensing medicines according to good dispensing practices and counseling patients on use of medicines;
• Making extemporaneous preparations;
• Participating in ward rounds;
• Identifying medicinal gaps and challenges;
• Maintaining a daily activity log book for recording all activities undertaken;
• Recommending over the counter (OTC) medicines to patients/clients with simple medical conditions and making necessary referrals; and
• Making entries into the relevant inventory management records and registers.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have

• Bachelor of Pharmacy Degree (B Pharm) from an institution recognized by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board;
• successfully completed one (l) year Internship from a recognized institution;
• Registration Certificate by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board; and
• Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution.

Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 49,000x 2,170 – 51,170 x 2,550 – 53,720 x 2,650 – 56,370 x 2,750 – 59,120 x 2,920 – 62,040 x 3,080 – 65,120 p.m

Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 38,270 x 1,470 – 39,740 x 1,520 – 41,260 x 1,710 – 42,970 x 1,910 – 44,890 x 2,000 – 46,890 x 2,100 – 49,000 x 2,170 – 51,170 p.mDuties and responsibilities: 

• Providing holistic care by carrying out risk identification and assessment of an individual throughout the lifespan;
• Performing a comprehensive physical examination within various settings; assessing, formulating, planning and implementing evidence-based nursing care for client/patient;
• Creating and maintaining a safe nursing care environment for client/patient;
• Carrying out patient audits to improve client/patient care; collaborating and maintaining effective working relationships among interdisciplinary teams to support client/patient and their families;
• Carrying out therapeutic communication with the patient/client;
• Conducting community health risk assessment and providing outcome-based interventions;
• Documenting interventions and nursing outcomes;
• Participating in quality improvement and quality assurance procedures; and
• Diagnosing common health conditions and recommending necessary interventions.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in either Nursing or Midwifery from a recognized institution;
• Registration Certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya;
• Valid practicing license from the Nursing Council of Kenya; and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Assessing, planning, implementing nursing interventions and evaluating patient’s outcomes;
• Providing appropriate healthcare service including Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI), Immunization, PMTCT, Ante-Natal Care and Delivery, providing health education and counselling to patients/clients and community on identified health needs;
• Referring patients and clients appropriately;
• Facilitating patients’ admission and initiating discharge plans;
• Maintaining records on patient’s/client’s health condition and care;
• Ensuring a tidy and safe clinical environment; and
• Collecting and compiling data.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: –

• Diploma in any of the following disciplines: Kenya Registered Community Health Nursing, Kenya Registered Nursing, Kenya Registered Midwifery, Kenya Registered Nursing/Midwifery or Kenya Registered Nursing/Mental Health and Psychiatry from a recognized institution;
• Registration Certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya;
• Valid practicing license from Nursing Council of Kenya; and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution

Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Mobilizing, sensitizing and advising communities on matters related to environmental health; referring health cases to relevant health facilities;
• Carrying out immunization; identifying environmental health issues at community level;
• Organizing community health days to advise communities on common public health issues;
• Collecting and maintaining up to date records of services rendered;
• Assessing health needs of the community;
• Implementing vector, vermin and rodent control measures; and
• Implementing integrated mosquito control strategies.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:-

• Diploma in either Environmental Health Science or Public Health Inspection from a recognized institution;
• Certificate of registration from the Association of Public Health Officers;
• Valid practicing license from Association of Public Health Officers; and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m

Duties and Responsibilities

• Decontaminating working benches, receiving and scrutinizing laboratory requisition forms and specimens; preparing clients for collection of specimens, receiving, collecting, labelling and registering of specimens;
• Disaggregating specimens for processing and analyses, preparing reagents; examining specimens, writing and recording of results;
• Dispatching the results for use in clinical management;
• Preparing stains; performing blood grouping;
• Issuing blood and blood products to peripheral health facilities; and
• Storing blood products according to their requirements.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:-

• Diploma in Medical Laboratory Sciences or any other equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board.
• Registration Certificate issued by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board (KMLTTB);
• Valid practicing license from Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board; and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Implementing nutrition programmes;
• Providing nutrition services in health care facilities;
• Conducting nutrition assessments;
• Collecting and compiling nutrition data;
• Providing nutrition health education and demonstrations;
• Counseling of patients with specific nutritional needs;
• Monitoring preparation of therapeutic feeds;
• Implementing outpatient and inpatient supplementary and therapeutic feeding programmes;
• Promoting maternal, infant and young children feeding programmes; and
• Providing micronutrient supplementation.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:-

• Diploma in Community Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition or Nutrition and Dietetics from a recognized training institution;
• Registration by the Council of the Institute of Nutritionists and Dieteticians (CIND); and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution

Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Taking history, examining, diagnosing and treating patients’ common ailments at an outpatient or inpatient health facility;
• Implementing community health care activities in liaison with other health workers; guiding and counseling patients, clients and staff on health issues;
• Sensitizing patients and clients on preventive and promotive health;
• Carrying out minor surgical procedures as per training and skill;
• Collecting and compiling clinical data; and
• Referring patients and clients to appropriate health facilities.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: –

• Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery or Clinical Medicine and Community Health from a recognized institution;
• Certificate of Registration from the Clinical Officers’ Council;
• Valid practicing license from Clinical Officers’ Council; and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution

Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Providing Physiotherapy services to inpatients and outpatients at an outpatient unit/ward/health institution;
• Assessing patient needs including rehabilitation;
• Verifying and maintaining information and records relating to patients;
• Screening, assessing and providing therapeutic exercises, manual therapy, electrotherapy and ydrotherapy as per the patients/clients formulated treatment plan;
• Collecting data for operational research;
• Sensitizing the community on Physiotherapy issues; and
• Preparing periodic reports.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:-

• Diploma in Physiotherapy from a recognized institution;
• Certificate of Registration from the Physiotherapy Council of Kenya (PCK);
• Current certificate of practice from Physiotherapy Council of Kenya (PCK); and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 22,270 x 1,040 – 23,310 x 1,070 – 24,380 x 1,090 – 25,470 x 1,110 – 26,580 x 1,120 – 27,700 x 1,150 – 28,850 x 1,170 – 30,020 p.m.Duties and Responsibilities 

• Visiting homes to determine health situations and dialogue with household members; identifying and sensitizing communities on health interventions; identifying common ailments and minor injuries at community level;
• Collecting health data at household level for analysis;
• Distribution of information education communication materials, mosquito nets and other commodities to households;
• Identifying defaulters of health interventions and other health cases and referring them to health facilities; and
• Maintaining and updating health data using health registers.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: –

• Certificate in any of the following disciplines; Community Health, Psychology, Counseling, Social Work or Community Development from a recognized institution and;
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution

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