Nutrition and Dietetics Technician III - 5 Posts at Machakos County Public Service Board

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assessing community nutrition needs
• Following-up on discharge cases from hospital
• Screening for deficiency diseases and chronic illnesses related to nutrition in a community nutrition and deictics
• Promoting baby friendly community initiatives
• Conducting community growth
• Monitoring and promotion activities
• Assisting in community interventions on diet and lifestyle disease prevention and control
• Promoting optimal infant and young child feeding programs
• Assisting in running out patient supplementary feeding programs and outpatient therapeutic feeding programs
• Following up and counseling of patients in home-based disease management
• Carrying out nutrition health education.

Requirements for Appointment

• Certificate in Community Nutrition or its equivalent from a recognized institution
• Certificate in computer applications skills from a recognized institution
• Registration by council of the institute of Nutritionist and Dieticians (CIND)