Nutritionist at Centre for Health Solutions - Kenya (CHS)

Overall Function:

The Nutritionist is responsible for providing nutrition services in HIV/TB patient management, and MNCH clinics in supported health care facilities.

Key responsibilities:

• Promoting maternal infant and young child feeding programs
• Developing and disseminating nutrition behavior change communication, information, education and communication materials;
• Conducting nutrition assessments
• Counseling of patients with specific nutritional needs
• Providing nutrition health education and demonstrations
• Implementing outpatient and inpatient supplementary and therapeutic feeding programs and evaluating outcomes;
• Providing micronutrient supplementation
• Collecting and compiling nutrition and dietetic data; and
• Conduct any other duty as may be prescribed by the supervisor

Qualifications and Requirements

For appointment to the post of Nutritionist, a candidate must;

• Have a Diploma in Community Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition or Nutrition and Dietetics from a recognized training institution
• Have a valid Registration by the Council of the Institute of Nutritionists and Dieticians (CIND)
• At least 2 years’ work experience including Comprehensive Care Clinic (CCC) services
• Experience working with MOH/County systems and personnel will be an added advantage
• Experience working in PEPFAR funded projects is an added advantage
• Should be self-motivated
• Should have good interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Computer literacy

Successful candidates will be supervised by their respective hospital/facility health management team (HMT) from the Ministry of Health in conjunction with the CHS Program team.