Social Worker at Public Service Commission Kenya (PSCK)

No of Positions: 3

V/NO.167/2020

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have have:

• a Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education mean grade C or its equivalent qualification; and
• a Diploma in any of the following disciplines: Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Mental Health or its equivalen qualifications from a recognized institution.

Duties and Responsibilities

An officer at this level will be a member of a Health team.

Specific duties and responsibilities at this level will include:

• addressing the psychosocial effects as related to patients’ diagnosis, prognosis and future resettlement;
• counseling patients especially in cases associated with pandemic diseases, metal illness, HIV/AIDS, epilepsy;
• extracting psychosocial information from the patient and observing casual factors which might be useful to the treatment plan; and
• implementation of patients’ treatment programme and follow up on discharge
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