Latest Recruitment at Tharaka Nithi County Government

Positions:  two (2) Posts

Qualifications

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) mean grade C (Plain) and C (Plain) in English/ Kiswahili and Biology/Biological Sciences and C-(Minus) grade in either chemistry, physics/physical sciences, mathematics or general sciences; and
• Diploma in Community Oral Health from Kenya Medical Training College or its equivalent from a recognized

Responsibilities:

Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail;

• participation in oral health demonstrations, exhibitions and giving lectures to communities and schools;
• collecting data for fluoride testing in water samples, analyzing and interpreting results and advisisng the relevant authorities accordingly;
• diagnosis and treatment of common dental conditions;
• Temporary and permanent dental restorations;
• reducing simple fractures of jaws;
• extractions and disimpactions;
• drainage of dental abscess, suturing to stop bleeding; and
• prescription of analgesics and anti-biotics.

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Positions:  fourteen (14) Posts

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

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Positions:  twenty (20) Posts

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

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

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Positions:  eight (8) Posts

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

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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Positions:  Nine (9) Posts

Qualifications

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

• a 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

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Positions:  Nine (9) Posts

Qualifications

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

• a 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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Positions:  five (5) Posts

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

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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 micronutrient

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Positions:  fifteen (15) Posts

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:

• 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