Community Health Assistants at County Government of Marsabit

CPSBM09/31/01/2020

Job group G/H

Terms of Service: Permanent and Pensionable

Responsibilities

• Collecting health related data at household level for analysis.
• Maintaining and updating community health unit registers and keeping records. Identifying common ailments and minor injuries at community level
• Identifying and referring health cases to appropriate health facilities.
• Visiting homes to determine the health situation and dialogue with household members; identifying and sensitizing communities on health
• Monitoring growth of children under the age of five years.
• Identifying defaulters of health interventions and referring them to the appropriate health facilities
• Managing community health resource centre
• Convening and coordinating monthly community meetings and action days

Qualifications

• Be a Kenyan citizen
• Holder of Kenya certificate of secondary Education with at least mean grade D+ or its equivalent
• Be a holder of at least diploma in Community Health or its equivalent
• Have Two years’ work experience in Community Health
• Proficiency in computer applications.