Career Opportunities at Kajiado County Government - 62 Positions

No of Positions: 6

V/NO.CG/1/2020

Qualifications

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

• Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery or Clinical Medicine and Community Health from a recognized institution and
• Certificate of Registration by Clinical Officers’ Council

Responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities at this level will include:

• Taking history, examining, diagnosing and treating patients’ common ailments at an out- patient or in-patient health facility;
• Implementing community health care activities in liaison with other health workers; guiding and counseling patients, clients and staff on health issues;
• Sensitizing patients and clients on preventive and promotive health;
• Carrying out minor surgical procedures as per training and skill;
• Collecting and compiling clinical data; and
• Referring patients and clients to appropriate health facilities

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No of Positions: 16

V/NO.CG/2/2020

Qualifications

For appointment to this grade, a candidate 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; and
• Valid practicing license from Nursing Council of Kenya;

 Responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail:

• Assessing, planning, implementing nursing interventions and evaluating patient’s outcomes;
• Providing appropriate healthcare service including integrated management of childhood illnesses (imci), immunization, pmtct, ante-natal care and delivery, providing health education and counseling 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; and
• Collecting and compiling clinical data

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No of Positions: 10

V/NO.CG/3/2020

Qualifications

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

• Certificate in any of the following disciplines: Kenya Enrolled Nurse, Kenya Enrolled Community Health Nurse, Kenya Enrolled Midwife, Kenya Enrolled Psychiatric Nurse or Enroll Nurse/Midwife from a recognized institution;
• Enrolment Certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya; and
• Valid practicing license from Nursing Council of Kenya

Responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail;

• Assessing patients and clients and establishing health care needs;
• Planning and  implementing  nursing  care  interventions  based  on  patients’/clients’ health needs;
• Providing providing appropriate healthcare service, including immunization, ante-netal care, delivery, referring patients and clients appropriately;
• Evaluating health care outcomes on patients/clients preparing individualized reports;
• Making appropriate discharge plan for patients;
• Conducting assessment of school health needs;
• Planning implementing interventions and preparing periodic reports;
• Maintaining records on patients/clients personal and health condition/care;
• Ensuring a tidy and safe clinical environment;
• Ensuring safe custody for in-patients belongings;
• Conducting home visits, following up discharged patients/clients and providing continuity of care; and
• Treating minor ailments

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No of Positions: 7

V/NO.CG/4/2020

Qualifications

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

• Diploma in Pharmaceutical Technology from a recognized training institution;
• Certificate of Registration as a Pharmaceutical Technologist by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board;
• Valid practicing license from Pharmacy and Poisons Board

Responsibilities

• At this level an officer is expected to provide pharmaceutical services under guidance of a senior officer in providing pharmaceutical services in the hospital including compounding and dispensing medicine and record keeping.

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No of Positions: 10

V/NO.CG/5/2020

Qualifications

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

• Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology from a recognized institution;
• Registration Certificate issued by the Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologist Board of Kenya;
• Valid practicing license from the Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologist Board of Kenya

Responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail:-

• Coordinating provision of laboratory services in a number of units/sections;
• Preparing work plans and programs for laboratory activities;
• Submitting samples to reference laboratories and institutes for further analysis;
• Preparing laboratory manuals and quality specifications;
• Supervising safe laboratory waste disposal;
• Carrying out efficacy tests; Initiating requisition proposals and undertaking technical evaluation for laboratory supplies/equipment; and
• Formulating technical laboratory standards

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No of Positions: 10

V/NO.CG/7/2020

Qualifications

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) mean grade C (plain) in English/Kiswahili, Biology/ Biological Sciences or Physics/ Physical Sciences and C- (minus) in Mathematics; and

• 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

Responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail:

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

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No of Positions: 2

V/NO.CG/10/2020

Qualifications

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

• Diploma in Community Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition or Nutrition and Dietetics from a recognized training institution; and
• Registration by the Council of the Institute of Nutritionists and Dieticians (CIND)

Responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities at this level will include:

• Implementing nutrition programmes; providing nutrition services in health care facilities;
• conducting nutrition assessments;
• Collecting and compiling nutrition data;
• Providing nutrition health education and demonstrations;
• Counseling 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; and
• Providing micro-nutrient supplementation

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No of Positions: 5

V/NO.CG/9/2020

Qualifications

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

• Diploma in Health Records and Information Technology from a recognized institution; and
• Certificate of Registration from Association of Medical Records Officers’ Kenya (AMRO-K).

 Responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail:

• Receiving and documenting patients at hospital reception;
• Registering and booking appointment for patients to clinics and consultants;
• Storing and retrieving medical records documents;
• Preparing clinics;
• Updating bed bureau;
• Editing of patient case records;
• Gathering data from different sources;
• Capturing data from service points;
• Maintaining record safety and confidentiality;
• Storing and retrieving medical records;
• Balancing daily bed returns;
• Creating and maintaining master index;
• Updating patient master index; directing patients to relevant clinics;
• Scheduling of patients to the consultants and speciality clinics; and
• Assigning codes to diseases and surgical procedures according to the international classification of diseases and procedures in medicine