Hot Jobs at Kakamega County

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Diagnosing, caring and treating diseases; 
• Performing medical and surgical procedures; 
• Preparing and responding to emergencies and disasters; 
• Participating in management of medicines, medical instruments and equipment; 
• Providing health education; 
• Maintaining medical records,
• Health information and data; 
• Counselling patients and their relatives on diagnoses and bereavement; 
• Teaching and coaching medical students, nursing students and clinical officer interns; 
• Preparing requisite documents for registration; and
• Any other lawful duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade a candidate must have:

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B; Ch.B.) degree from a recognized institution in Kenya;
• Successfully completed one (1) year Internship from a recognized institution;
• Registration license from the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board;
• Valid practicing license from Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board; and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 49,000x 2,170 – 51,170 x 2,550 – 53,720 x 2,650 – 56,370 x 2,750 – 59,120 x 2,920 – 62,040 x 3,080 – 65,120 p.m.

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Duties and responsibilities 

• Screening prescriptions for legal validity, drug contraindications, drug interactions, appropriateness of dose, frequency and duration of dosing and patience convenience;
• Preparing and dispensing medicines according to good dispensing practices and counseling patients on use of medicines; 
• Making extemporaneous preparations; 
• Participating in ward rounds; 
• Identifying medicinal gaps and challenges; 
• Maintaining a daily activity log book for recording all activities undertaken; 
• Recommending over the counter (OTC) medicines to patients/clients with simple medical conditions and making necessary referrals; and 
• Making entries into the relevant inventory management records and registers.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have

• Bachelor of Pharmacy Degree (B Pharm) from an institution recognized by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board;
• successfully completed one (l) year Internship from a recognized institution;
• Registration Certificate by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board; and
• Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution.

Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 49,000x 2,170 – 51,170 x 2,550 – 53,720 x 2,650 – 56,370 x 2,750 – 59,120 x 2,920 – 62,040 x 3,080 – 65,120 p.m

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Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 38,270 x 1,470 – 39,740 x 1,520 – 41,260 x 1,710 – 42,970 x 1,910 - 44,890 x 2,000 – 46,890 x 2,100 – 49,000 x 2,170 – 51,170 p.mDuties and responsibilities: 

• Providing holistic care by carrying out risk identification and assessment of an individual throughout the lifespan; 
• Performing a comprehensive physical examination within various settings; assessing, formulating, planning and implementing evidence-based nursing care for client/patient; 
• Creating and maintaining a safe nursing care environment for client/patient; 
• Carrying out patient audits to improve client/patient care; collaborating and maintaining effective working relationships among interdisciplinary teams to support client/patient and their families; 
• Carrying out therapeutic communication with the patient/client; 
• Conducting community health risk assessment and providing outcome-based interventions; 
• Documenting interventions and nursing outcomes; 
• Participating in quality improvement and quality assurance procedures; and
• Diagnosing common health conditions and recommending necessary interventions.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in either Nursing or Midwifery from a recognized institution;
• Registration Certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya;
• Valid practicing license from the Nursing Council of Kenya; and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

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Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m

Duties and Responsibilities 

• 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 counselling to patients/clients and community on identified health needs; 
• Referring patients and clients appropriately; 
• Facilitating patients' admission and initiating discharge plans; 
• Maintaining records on patient’s/client’s health condition and care;
• Ensuring a tidy and safe clinical environment; and
• Collecting and compiling data.

Requirements for Appointment
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;
• Valid practicing license from Nursing Council of Kenya; and 
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution

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Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Mobilizing, sensitizing and advising communities on matters related to environmental health; referring health cases to relevant health facilities; 
• Carrying out immunization; identifying environmental health issues at community level; 
• Organizing community health days to advise communities on common public health issues;
• Collecting and maintaining up to date records of services rendered; 
• Assessing health needs of the community; 
• Implementing vector, vermin and rodent control measures; and 
• Implementing integrated mosquito control strategies.

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

• Diploma in either Environmental Health Science or Public Health Inspection from a recognized institution; 
• Certificate of registration from the Association of Public Health Officers; 
• Valid practicing license from Association of Public Health Officers; and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

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Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m

Duties and Responsibilities

• Decontaminating working benches, receiving and scrutinizing laboratory requisition forms and specimens; preparing clients for collection of specimens, receiving, collecting, labelling and registering of specimens; 
• Disaggregating specimens for processing and analyses, preparing reagents; examining specimens, writing and recording of results; 
• Dispatching the results for use in clinical management; 
• Preparing stains; performing blood grouping; 
• Issuing blood and blood products to peripheral health facilities; and 
• Storing blood products according to their requirements.

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

• Diploma in Medical Laboratory Sciences or any other equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board.
• Registration Certificate issued by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board (KMLTTB);
• Valid practicing license from Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board; and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

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Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m

Duties and Responsibilities 

• 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 micronutrient supplementation.

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

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

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Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Taking history, examining, diagnosing and treating patients’ common ailments at an outpatient or inpatient 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.

Requirements for Appointment
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;
• Certificate of Registration from the Clinical Officers’ Council; 
• Valid practicing license from Clinical Officers’ Council; and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution

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Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Providing Physiotherapy services to inpatients and outpatients at an outpatient unit/ward/health institution; 
• Assessing patient needs including rehabilitation; 
• Verifying and maintaining information and records relating to patients; 
• Screening, assessing and providing therapeutic exercises, manual therapy, electrotherapy and ydrotherapy as per the patients/clients formulated treatment plan; 
• Collecting data for operational research; 
• Sensitizing the community on Physiotherapy issues; and 
• Preparing periodic reports.

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

• Diploma in Physiotherapy from a recognized institution;
• Certificate of Registration from the Physiotherapy Council of Kenya (PCK);
• Current certificate of practice from Physiotherapy Council of Kenya (PCK); and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

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Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 22,270 x 1,040 – 23,310 x 1,070 – 24,380 x 1,090 – 25,470 x 1,110 – 26,580 x 1,120 – 27,700 x 1,150 – 28,850 x 1,170 – 30,020 p.m.Duties and Responsibilities 

• Visiting homes to determine health situations and dialogue with household members; identifying and sensitizing communities on health interventions; identifying common ailments and minor injuries at community level; 
• Collecting health data at household level for analysis; 
• Distribution of information education communication materials, mosquito nets and other commodities to households; 
• Identifying defaulters of health interventions and other health cases and referring them to health facilities; and 
• Maintaining and updating health data using health registers.

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

• Certificate in any of the following disciplines; Community Health, Psychology, Counseling, Social Work or Community Development from a recognized institution and;
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution

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Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Procurement, provision and maintenance of facilities;
• Preparation of budgets;
• Overseeing welfare of staff and patients and ensuring their security; and
• General upkeep of the hospital.

Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade a candidate must have: 

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), Mean Grade C- (Minus) or its equivalent qualification with at least a C (Plain) in English/Kiswahili and Mathematics from a recognized institution;
• Diploma in any of the following: Health Management, Hospital Administration, Business Administration or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution; and
• Registration with Kenya Association of Health Administrators (KAHA) will be an added advantage.

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Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 22,270 x 1,040 – 23,310 x 1,070 – 24,380 x 1,090 – 25,470 x 1,110 – 26,580 x 1,120 – 27,700 x 1,150 – 28,850 x 1,170 – 30,020 p.m

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Receiving and registering patients at hospital reception; 
• booking appointment for patients to specialists and consultants’ clinics; 
• storing and retrieving medical records and documents; 
• preparing clinics; 
• updating bed bureaus; 
• capturing data from service points; 
• maintaining record safety and confidentiality; and 
• directing patients to relevant clinics. 

Requirements for Appointment 
For appointment to this grade, an officer must have:

• Certificate in Health Records and Information Technology from a recognized institution; and
• Certificate in computer application Skills from a recognized institution.

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Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m

Duties and Responsibilities 
Addressing the psychosocial effects as related to patients' diagnosis, prognosis and future resettlement, and counseling of patients especially in cases associated with pandemic diseases, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, epilepsy, etc.

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

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

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Basic Salary Scale: Kshs. 25,470 x 1,070 – 26,580 x 1,080 – 27,700 x 1,110 – 28,850 x 1,130 – 30,020 x 1,200 – 31,270 x 1,260 – 32,570 x 1,330 – 33,950 p.m.

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Determine specifications of medical equipment to be procured;
• Determine the equipment needs in the facilities;
• Assist in procuring medical equipment and installation;
• Safeguarding and maintaining medical equipment; and
• Assist in obtaining spare parts servicing medical equipment in the facilities.

Requirements for Appointment 
For appointment to this grade, an officer must have:

• Have a Diploma in Medical Engineering from a recognized institution or equivalent qualification from recognized institution;
• Be registered with the Association of Medical Engineers of Kenya; and
• Knowledge of good clinical laboratory practice.