Medical Officers at County Public Service Board of Bungoma

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;
• Counseling patients and their relatives on diagnosis and bereavement;
• Teaching and coaching medical students, nursing students and clinical officer interns and
• Preparing requisite documents for registration.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Bachelor of medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChdegree from an institution recognized by the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board;
• Have successfully completed one (1) year internship from a recognized institution;
• Have Registration license from the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board and
• Have Certificate in Computer application Skills form a recognized institution.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Screening prescriptions for legal validity, drug contraindications, drug interactions, and appropriateness of dose, frequency and duration of dosing and patience convenience;
• Preparation and dispensing of 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 under taken;
• Recommending over the counter (OTMedicine 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:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Bachelor of pharmacy Degree (B Pharm) from an institution recognized by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board;
• Have successfully completed one (1) year internship from a recognized institution;
• Have Registration Certificate by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board;
• Have Certificate in Computer application Skills form a recognized institution and
• Have a valid practicing license

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Providing dental care including: diagnosing common oral conditions, treating, prescribing and referring;
• Carrying out minor oral and maxillofacial surgery;
• Prosthetics, and conservative dentistry;
• Facilitating admission, disease investigations of patients, report writing and assisting in theatre activities;
• Collecting information on dental health information system;
• Organizing discharge summaries and follow-up of patients; and
• Acting as the first on call on duty

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Bachelor of Dental Surgery (DS) degree or any other equivalent qualification from an
• institution recognized by Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board;
• Have successfully completed one (1) year internship from a recognized institution;
• Have Certificate of Registration by the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board; and
• Have Certificate in Computer Application skills from a recognized institution.

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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 and
• Implementing vector, vermin and rodent control measures; and implementing integrated mosquito control strategies.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen
• Have Diploma in either Environmental Health Science or Public Health Inspection from a recognized institution; and
• Have Certificate in Computer application skills from a recognized institution.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Mobilizing, sensitizing and advising communities on matters related to environmental health;
• Referring health cases to relevant health facilities;
• Carrying out immunization and related activities;
• Identifying environmental health issues at community level;
• Organizing community health days to advice 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:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Diploma in either environmental Health Science or Public Health Inspection from a recognized institution;
• Have Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution and
• Have valid license by the Public Health Officers and Technician.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Dispensing drugs/medicines;
• Receiving, interpreting and processing prescriptions;
• Recording prescriptions in a pharmacy unit;
• Pre-packing, repacking and writing instructions on labels;
• Counseling patients on usage of drugs in a pharmacy unit;
• Maintaining drugs registers/books and
• Stock-taking of drugs and medicinal devices on monthly basis.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Diploma in either Pharmacy or Pharmaceutical Technology or equivalent qualification approved by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board from a recognized institution;
• Have Certificate of Enrolment as Pharmaceutical Technologist awarded by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB);
• Have Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution and
• Have a valid practicing Certificate.

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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.

Requirement for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery or Clinical Medicine and Community health from a recognized institution;
• Have Certificate of Registration from the Clinical Officers’ Council;
• Have Certificate in Computer Application Skill from a recognized institution and
• Have a valid practicing license.

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Duties and Responsibilities will include:

• Implementing community health care activities in liaison with other health workers;
• History taking, examining, diagnosing, treating and managing diseases and conditions in an outpatient or inpatient health facility;
• Sensitizing patients and clients on preventive and promotive health;
• Providing clinical outreach and school health services;
• Coaching and mentoring students on attachment;
• Carrying out surgical procedures as per training and skill;

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Higher Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery (Anaesthesia)
• Have Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery or Clinical Medicine and Community Health from a recognized institution;
• Have Certificate of Registration from the Clinical Officer’s Council;
• Have Valid Practicing License; and
• Have Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Assessing, planning, implementing nursing interventions and evaluating patient's outcome;
• 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 data.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• 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;
• Have Registration Certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya;
• Have a Valid practicing license from the Nursing Council of Kenya

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Assessing, planning, implementing nursing interventions and evaluating patient's outcomes;
• Providing appropriate healthcare service including Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI), Integrated Management of adcescents and Adulthood illnesses (IMAI), immunization and reproductive health;
• 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 tidy and safe clinical environment; conducting home visits;
• Conducting nursing teaching and assessment of nursing staff and students;

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Higher Diploma in Anaesthetic Nursing;
• 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;
• Have Registration Certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya;
• Have valid practicing license from the Nursing Council of Kenya; and
• Have Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Decontaminating working benches;
• Receiving and scrutinizing laboratory requisition forms and specimens;
• Preparing clients for collection of specimens;
• Receiving, collecting, labeling and registering specimens;
• Disaggregating specimens for processing and analysis;
• Preparing reagents;
• Examining specimens;
• 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:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Diploma in medical laboratory sciences or any other equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical laboratory Technicians and Technologist Board;
• Have Registration certificate issued by the Kenya medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologist Board (KMLTTB);
• Have Valid practicing license from Kenya medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologist Board and
• Have Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

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Duties and Responsibilities

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

Requirements for Appointments

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Diploma in Health Records and Information Technology from a recognized institution;
• Have a Registration Certificate Issued by Association of Medical Records Officers of Kenya (AMROK); and
• Have Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Receiving and registering patients at hospital reception;
• Booking appointment for patients to specialty 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, a candidate must:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Certificate in Health Records and Information Technology from a recognized institution;
• Have a Registration Certificate Issued by Association of Medical Records Officers of Kenya (AMROK); and
• Have Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution

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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;
• Preparation of monthly reports and monitoring Nutrition Programmes;
• Implementing outpatient and inpatient supplementary and therapeutic feeding programmes and
• Promoting maternal, infant and young children feeding programmes and providing micronutrient supplementation.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Diploma in community Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition or Nutrition and Dietetics from a recognized institution;
• Have Certificate in computer Application skills from a recognized institution;
• Have Registration by the Council of the Institute of Nutritionists and Dieticians (CINand
• Have a valid practicing license.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Preparing and implementing therapeutic diets for outpatients and inpatients;
• Providing guidelines on therapeutic diets for existing and emerging diseases for hospital use and home based care and other institutions;
• Treating and counseling patients using specialized dietetic process including screening, assessing, formulating and implementing nutrition interventions and evaluating outcomes;
• Providing nutrition support in patient management in health care facilities;
• Developing and disseminating nutrition behavior change communication, information, education and communication materials;
• Implementing nutrition health programmes; and
• Collecting and compiling nutrition and dietetic data.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have a Bachelor’s Degree in any of the following disciplines: Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics, Dietetics/Clinical Nutrition, Food Science and Nutrition or Home Economics from a recognized Institution;
• Be registered by the Council of the Institute of Nutritionists and Dietitians (CIND); and
• Have Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution;

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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 hydrotherapy 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:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Diploma in Physiotherapy from a recognized institution;
• Have Certificate of Registration from the Physiotherapy Council of Kenya (PCK);
• Have Current Certificate of practice from Physiotherapy Council of Kenya (PCK); and
• Have Certificate in any Computer Application skills.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Procurement and
• Provision and maintenance of facilities and general upkeep of the hospital.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must:-

• Be a Kenyan Citizen;
• Have Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), mean grade C- or its equivalent qualification with at least a C in English/Kiswahili and Mathematics from a recognized Institution; and
• Have Diploma in any of the following: - Health Management, Hospital Administration, Business Administration or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution