Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Cleaning,
• Dusting,
• Sweeping,
• Vacuuming
• Mopping
• Stocking and supplying things to designated facility areas
• Gardening maintenance.

Requirement for appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education D-(Minus)
•  Certificate of good Conduct.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Taking history, examining diagnosing, ordering laboratory and imaging investigations.
• Interpreting laboratory and imaging results.
• Treating patient’s common ailments at an outpatients or inpatient health facility.
• Providing community health care services in liaison with other health workers.
• Guiding and counselling patients, clients and staff on health issues.
• Sensitizing patients and clients on preventive and promotive health.
• Carrying out surgical procedures as per training and skill.
• Collecting and compiling clinical data.
• Preparing medico-legal briefs on clinical services.
• Referring patients and clients to appropriate health facilities.

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have;

• Diploma in any of the following disciplines; Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Clinical Medicine and Community Health or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.
• Certificate of Registration from Clinical Officers’ Council.
• Valid practicing licence from Clinical Officers’ Council.
• Proficiency in Computer applications.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Dispensing drugs/medicines to patients under supervision of a senior officer
• Receiving interpreting and processing prescriptions
• Recording prescriptions in a pharmacy unit
• Pre-packing, repacking and writing instructions on labels
• Counselling patients on usage of drugs in a pharmacy unit
• Maintaining drug register/books
• Stock-taking of drugs and medicine devices on monthly basis

Requirement for appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have

• Diploma in either Pharmacy or Pharmaceutical Technology or equivalent qualification approved by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board from a recognized institution
• Certificate of Enrolment as a Pharmaceutical Technologist awarded by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implementing nutrition programmes.
• Providing nutrition services in health care facilities
• Conducting nutrition assessments.
• Collecting and compiling nutrition data.
• Counselling 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.
• Providing micronutrient supplementation.

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: –

• Diploma in Community Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition or Nutrition and Dietetics from a recognized training institution.
• Certificate in Computer Application Skills from recognized institution.
• Registration by the Council of the Institute of Nutrition’s and Dieticians.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Receiving and registering patients at hospital reception
• Booking appointment for patients to specialty and consultants’ clinics
• Storing and retrieving medical records and documents
• Preparing clinics capturing data from service points
• Maintaining record safely and confidentially
• Directing patients to relevant clinics.

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: –

• Certificate in Health Records and Information Technology from a recognized institution
• Certificate in computer skills from a recognized institution.

Key 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.
• Implementing integrated mosquito control strategies.

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: –

• Diploma in either Environmental Health Science or Public Health Inspection from recognized institution.
• Certificate in Computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Providing radiographic services to the patients;
• Processing, verifying and maintaining information relating to patients;
• Ordering
• Maintaining records of radiographic and photographic supplies.

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: –

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) mean grade C (plain) with grade C (plain) in English/Kiswahili, Biology/Biological Sciences or Physics/Physical Sciences and C-in Mathematics;
• Diploma in any of the following: Diagnostic Radiography/Medical Imaging Sciences, Ultrasound, Computerized Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Mammography, Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Therapy and Digital Medical imaging equipment or its equivalent from a recognized Institution.

Key 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
• 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
• Storing blood products according to their requirements

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have:-

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

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manipulating and reducing fractures and dislocations.
• Fixing and removing casts, bandages and traction to and from patient/clients.
• Correcting Congenital Talipes Equino-Varus (C.T.E.V).
• Counseling patient on issues regarding orthopedic trauma.
• Cleaning and treating simple wounds resulting from orthopedic trauma.
• Documenting orthopedic and trauma case.
• Assessing and referring patient with musculoskeletal condition.

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: –

• Diploma in Orthopaedic plaster technologist.
• Certificate in computer skills.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Diagnosing,
• Caring and treating diseases;
• Performing medical and surgical procedures;
•  Preparing and responding to emergencies and disaster;
• 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 officers’ interns;
•  Preparing requisite documents for registration.

Requirement for appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: –

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B:Ch.B) degree from a recognized by Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board.
• Successfully completed one (1) year Internship from a recognized institution.
• Registration license from The Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board and
• Certificate in Computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Providing clinical services in a health facility.
• History taking, examining investigating, diagnosing, treating and managing diseases/conditions of patients.
• Ordering laboratory and imaging investigations.
• Interpreting laboratory and imaging results.
• Conducting ward rounds, reviewing and making appropriate referrals.
• Carrying out surgical procedures as per scope of training.
• Implementing clinical service procedures, guidelines, quality assurance standards in the provision of clinical services.
• Providing clinical and clinical services care in health institutions and communities;
• Implementing medico-legal standards and guidelines in the provision of clinical services;
• Preparing medico-legal reports on clinical services;
• Undertaking disease surveillance, control and management;
• Guiding and counseling patients, clients and staff on health issues;
• Undertaking research on critical clinical health issues and emerging trends;
• Providing clinical outreach and school health services;
• Leading and organizing health management teams and convening health management committee meetings at level 3 health facilities;
• Collecting data and compiling clinical reports.
• Monitoring patients, making appropriate referrals and providing necessary guidance and counselling;
• Providing emergency clinical and critical care;
• Coaching and mentoring students and interns o attachment; and
• Guiding and counselling staff.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Preparation of raw foods for cooking.
• Cleanliness of equipment used in production.
• Maintaining hygiene by ensuring cleaning of the kitchen and its surrounding.
• Setting up and preparing equipment and production.
• Alerting the supervisor of any defective equipment.

Requirement for appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: –

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE)mean grade ‘D’ plain or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.
• Craft Certificate in Food and Beverage Production, Sales and Services or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.

OR

• Attended a formal course lasting not less than two (2) months in Food Production organized by the Kenya Utalii College or other recognized institution.

Key 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;
• Maintaining and updating health data using health registers

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have:-

• Certificate in any of the following disciplines: Community Health, Psychology, Counselling, Social Work or Community Development from a recognized institution
• Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Providing Physiotherapy services to inpatients and outpatients at an outpatients’ 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 hydrotherapy as per the patient/clients formulated treated plan
• Collecting data for operational research

Requirements for Appointment

• 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)
• Certificate in any computer application skills.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provision of Orthopedics Technology Services which entails designing, fabrication, fitting and maintenance of Orthopedics appliances that are required health institutions.In addition, the Officer is expected to assess patient’s needs, verify and maintain information relating to patients, order and maintain records supplies.

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: –

• Diploma in Orthopedic Technology or relevant approved qualification from a recognized institution
• A membership certificate from the National Professional Association.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• An officer at this level will work under the guidance of a senior officer.
• Assessing and formulating patient’s treatment plan.
• Maintaining records and data relating to patients.
• Sensitizing the community on occupational therapy issues
• Preparing periodic reports.

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: –

• Diploma in Occupational Therapy from a recognized institution
• Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Undertaking general diagnosis, care, treatment and rehabilitation of patients
• Carrying out specialized clinical care;
• Providing psycho-social interventions;
• Providing clinical services to patients
• Training, consulting and performing surgeries
• Carrying out forensic and medico-legal services
• Coordinating disease surveillance, prevention and control
• Coordinating health education and promotion
• Implementing health projects and programmes
• Maintaining up to date health information systems
• Monitoring provision of health treatment and care
• Undertaking health research
• Analyzing medical reports

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have;

• At least eight (8) years of experience in public service.
• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B:Ch.B) degree from a recognized by Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board.
• Masters in any of the following fields: Medicine, Anesthesia. Cardiothoracic Ear. Dermatology. Surgery: Nose and Throat, Otorhinolaryngology. Family Medicine, General Surgery, Geriatrics, Internal Medicine. Microbiology, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Occupational Medicine, Ophthalmology, Orthopedic Surgery. Pediatrics and Child Health, Palliative Medicine. Pathology. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Psychiatry, Public Health, Radiology, Health Systems Management. Health Economics, Health Informatics. Epidemiology. Global Health Policy. Public Health Microbiology and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Biostatistics or equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board.
• Certificate of Registration by the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board
• Valid practicing license from Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board
• Certificate in Strategic Leadership Development Programme lasting not less than six (6) weeks from a recognized institution
• Certificate in Computer application skills from a recognized institution

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Screening prescription for legal validity, drug contraindications, drug interactions, appropriateness of dose frequency and duration of dosing and patient convenience.
• Preparing and dispensing medicines according to Good Dispensing practices and counselling patients on use of medicines.
• Making extemporaneous preparations.
• Participating in ward rounds.
• Identifying medical 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.
• Making entries into the relevant inventory management records and registers.

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: –

• Bachelors of Pharmacy Degree (B Pharm) from recognized institution recognized by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board.
• Successfully completed one (1) year internship from recognized institution.
• Registration Certificate by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board.
• Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Removal of the deceased from place of death.
• Receiving of bodies and tagging for proper identification.
• Escort mourners to funeral chapels.
• Organize the reception after service.

Requirement for appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: –

• Kenya certificate of secondary school.
•  (1) One-year work experience in funeral establishment.
•  Be a member of registered funeral professional association.
• Must be attended (3) three months training in embalming, mortuary science or funeral service education in a recognized institution.
• Computer skill certificate.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Receiving and scrutinizing laboratory requisition forms and specimen.
• Preparing clients for collection of specimens.
• Receiving, collecting, labelling and registering patient’s specimens.
• Preparing laboratory reagents.
• Examining specimens.
• Writing and recording results.
• Preparing stains and reagents.
• Recruiting and preparing and bleeding of blood donors for transfusion services.

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: –

• Bachelor’s Degree in Medical Laboratory Services or any other equivalent qualification from institution recognized by Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board.
• Registration Certificate issued by Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board (KMLTTB).
• Valid practicing license from Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologist Board.
• Certificate in Computer application.

Key Duties 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;
• Carrying out patient audits to improve client/patient care;
• Collaborating and maintaining effective working relationships among interdisciplinary teams to support client/patient;
• 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.

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: –

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

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinating Pharmaceutical services
• Coordinating Medicine and Therapeutics activities
• Developing and reviewing standard operating procedures for all pharmaceutical services
• Conducting Research on medicine utilization
• Providing Continuous professional development education to pharmacists
• Evaluating appropriateness of donated medical supplies
• Maintaining Pharmaceutical inventories
• Participating in facility management committees
• Providing medicinal information in preparation of patient drug management therapies
• Coordinating preparation of annual work plans and ensuring they are adhered to
• Coordinating capacity building and deployment of dental personnel

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have

• At least eight (8) years of experience in public service.
• Bachelor of Pharmacy Degree (B Pharm) from an institution recognized by the Pharmacy and Poison Board.
• Master’s degree in any of the following: Pharmaceutical policy Analysis and formulation Pharmacognosy and Complementary Medicine; Toxicology; Clinical Pharmacy Pharmacovigilance and Pharmaco-epidemiology ; Medicines supplies Management ; Medicines Regulation ; Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Control ; Pharmaceutics;  Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Pharmaceutical Analysis ; Tropical and Infectious Diseases ; Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Industrial Pharmacy ; Health Systems Management ; Pharmaceutical Care; Health Informatics; Health Economics ; Epidemiology; Biostatistics; Medical Statistics ; Drug Design and Development ; Clinical trials; Quality Assurance; Radio pharmacy; Public Health; Microbiology; or Molecular  Pharmacology from an institution  recognized by the pharmacy and poisons Board.
•  Registration Certificate by the Pharmacy and Poisons Boards
• Valid practicing license from Pharmacy and Poisons Board
• Certificate in Strategic Leadership Development Programme lasting not less than four (4) weeks from a recognized institution
• Certificate in Computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

•  Assessing planning Nursing interventions and evaluating patient outcome.
• Providing appropriate health care service including Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), Immunization, PMTC, 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 patients’/clients’ health condition and care
• Ensuring a tidy and safe clinical environment
• Collecting and compiling data.

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer 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
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution