Vacancies at Machakos County Public Service Board

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 patients/clients’ health condition and care;
• Ensuring a tidy and safe clinical environment; and collecting and compiling data.

Requirement for Appointment

• 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;
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintaining cleanliness, opening/closing rooms, arranging furniture, and performing minor repairs.
• providing operational assistance
• any other duty assigned by supervisor

Requirement for Appointment

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE)

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Duties and Responsibilities

• providing radiographic services to the patients;
• processing, verifying and maintaining information relating to patients;
• ordering
• maintaining records of radiographic and photographic supplies.

Requirement for appointment

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) mean grade C (plain) with grade C (plain) in English/Kiswahili, Biology/Biological Sciences or Physics/Physical Sciences and C- in Mathematics; 
• 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 Institution.
• Member of the Society of Radiography in Kenya (SORK)

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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;
• maintaining and updating health data using health registers

Requirement for appointment

• Certificate in any of the following disciplines: Community Health, Psychology, Counselling, Social Work or Community Development from a recognized institution
• 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, 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
• Storing blood products according to their requirements.

Requirement for Appointment

• Diploma in Medical Laboratory Sciences or any other equivalent qualification from an institute recognized by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologist Board.
• Registration Certificate issued by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologist Board (KMLTTB).
• Valid practicing license from Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologist Board
• Certificate in computer application 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.
• Counselling 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.
• Providing micronutrient supplementation.

Requirement for Appointment

• Diploma in Community Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition or Nutrition and Dietetics from a recognized training institution.
• Certificate in Computer Application Skills from recognized institution.
• Registration by the Council of the Institute of Nutrition’s and Dieticians
• Valid practising license.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Undertaking preventive maintenance and repairs of medical/hospital equipment’s, plants instruments and furniture.
• Requisitioning for spare parts and consumables
• Taking inventory of medical/hospital equipment’s, furniture and plants.
• Collecting information for research.
• Collecting information on medical engineering services for input into the Integrated Health Information Management System.
• Carrying out minor repairs of health facilities and utilities.
• Implementing medical engineering programmes and projects.

Requirement for Appointment

• Diploma in Medical Engineering or any other equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.
• Registration certificate issued by the Association of the Medical Engineers of Kenya (AMEK)
• 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 capturing data from service points
• Maintaining record safely and confidentially
• Directing patients to relevant clinics.

Requirement for appointment

• Certificate in Health Records and Information Technology from a recognized institution
• Registration certificate issued by Health Records & Information Managers (HRIM) Board
• Valid practicing license
• Certificate in computer skills from a recognized institution.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Participating in oral health demonstration, exhibitions and giving lectures to community and school
• Collecting data for fluoride testing in water samples, analyzing and interpreting results and advising the relevant authorities accordingly
• Diagnosis and treatment of common dental conditions
• Temporary and permanent dental restorations
• Reducing simple fractures of jaws
• Extraction and disimpactions
• Drainage of dental abscess

Requirement for Appointment

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) mean grade ‘C’ plain and grade C plain in English/Kiswahili and Biology/Biological Sciences and grade C-(minus) in either Chemistry, Physics/Physical Sciences, Mathematics or General Sciences
• Diploma in community oral health from Kenya Medical Training college or its equivalent from a recognized institution.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Taking history, examining, diagnosing, ordering laboratory imaging investigations
• Interpreting laboratory and imaging results
• Treating patients’ common ailments at outpatient or inpatients health facility
• Providing community health care services in liaison with other health workers
• Guiding and counselling patients, clients and staff on health issues
• Sensitizing patients and clients on preventive and promotive health
• Carrying out surgical procedures as per training and skill
• Collecting and compiling clinical data
• Preparing medico-legal briefs on clinical services
• Referring patients and clients to appropriate health facilities

Requirement for Appointment

• Diploma in any of the following disciplines: Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Clinical Medicine and Community Health or its equivalents qualification from a recognized institution
• Certificate of registration from Clinical Officers Council
• Valid professional practice license from the Clinical Officers Council
• Proficiency in computer application

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Addressing the psychosocial effects as related to patients’ diagnosis, prognosis and future resettlement
• Counselling of patients especially in cases associated with pandemic diseases, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, epilepsy

Requirement for appointment

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E) mean grade C or its equivalent qualification
• Diploma in any of the following disciplines: social Work, sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Mental Health or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.
• Registration certificate issued by the Kenya Medical Social Workers Association (KEMSWA)
• Valid practising license

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Diagnosing, caring and treatment 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

Requirement for Appointment

• Bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery (MB.Ch.B) degree from an Institution recognized by Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board.
• Successfully completed one (1) year internship from recognized institution.
• Registration license from Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board.
• Certificate of Computer application skills from a recognized institution 

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Assessing And Formulating Patients Treatment Plan
• Maintain records and data relating to patients
• Collecting data for operational research
• Sensitizing the community on occupational therapy issues
• Preparing periodic reports

Requirement for Appointment

• Diploma in Occupational therapy from recognized institution
• Registration with Kenya Occupational Therapy Association (KOTA)
• Certificate in computer application skills from recognized institution.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Providing Physiotherapy services to inpatients and outpatients at an outpatients’ 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 patient/clients formulated treated plan
• Collecting data for operational research

Requirements for Appointment

• 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)
• Certificate in any computer application skills.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Driving a motor vehicle as authorized
• Carrying out routine checks on the vehicles coiling, oil, electrical and brakes system, tyre pressure
• Detecting and reporting malfunctioning of vehicle systems
• Maintenance of work tickets for vehicle assigned
• Ensuring security and safety for vehicle on and off the roads
• Safety of the passengers and or goods therein
• Maintain cleanliness of the vehicle.

Requirement for Appointment

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) mean grade ‘D’ plain or its equivalent qualification from recognized institution
• A valid driving license free from any current endorsement(s) for the class(es) of vehicle(s) the officer is required to drive
• Attended a First aid certificate course lasting not less than one (1) week at st. John’s ambulance or Kenya Institute Highway and Building Technology (KIHBT) or its equivalent from a recognized institution
• Passed suitability test for driver grade III
• Passed practical test for driver conducted by the respective Ministry/Department
• A valid Certificate of Good Conduct from the Kenya Police
• At least two (2) years driving experience

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Dispensing drugs/medicines to patients under supervision of a senior officer
• Receiving interpreting and processing prescriptions
• Recording prescriptions in a pharmacy unit
• Pre-packing, repacking and writing instructions on labels
• Counselling patients on usage of drugs in a pharmacy unit
• Maintaining drug register/books
• Stock – taking of drugs and medicine devices on monthly basis

Requirement for appointment

• Diploma in either Pharmacy or Pharmaceutical Technology or equivalent qualification approved by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board from a recognized institution
• Certificate of Enrollment as a Pharmaceutical Technologist awarded by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board
• Valid Practicing license
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Provision of Orthopaedics Technology Services which entails designing, fabrication, fitting and maintenance of Orthopaedics appliances that are required health institutions. In addition, the Officer is expected to assess patient’s needs, verify and maintain information relating to patients, order and maintain records supplies.

Requirement for appointment

• Diploma in Orthopaedic Technology or relevant approved qualification from a recognized institution
• A membership certificate from the National Professional Association

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform high-quality, complex medical imaging procedures (e.g., CT, MRI, mammography, or fluoroscopy).
• Prepare and position patients correctly, explain imaging procedures to alleviate anxiety, and monitor physical well-being throughout the scan.
• Calibrate, operate, and troubleshoot highly specialized radiographic equipment to ensure optimal image quality
• Strictly adhere to ALARA (As Low as Reasonably Achievable) principles, utilizing lead shielding and monitoring dosages to protect patients and medical staff. 
• Establish and maintain departmental Quality Assurance (QA) programs, routinely testing equipment to meet regulatory compliance standards. 

​​​​​​​Requirement for Appointment

• Degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB.) from an Institution recognized by Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board.
• Masters in Imaging and Radiology
• Certificate of Registration by the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board 
• Certificate of Recognition from Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC)
• Valid practicing license from Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board
• At least nine (9) years of working experience
• SLDP lasting not less than six (6) weeks from a recognized institution
• Certificate in Computer application skills from a recognized institution

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform retinal imaging (fundoscopy) for study participants according to protocol
• Ensure proper patient preparation, positioning and comfort during imaging procedures
• Maintain high-quality image acquisition standards and repeat poor-quality images where necessary
• Ensure correct labelling, documentation, and secure transfer of retinal images to study systems
• Conduct basic quality checks of captured images before upload
• Ensure adherence to study SOPs, infection prevention and data security procedures
• Maintain and care for fundoscopy equipment, reporting faults or maintenance needs promptly
• Support participant flow during imaging sessions in coordination with study staff
• Liaise with Research Midwives and clinical teams to ensure smooth integration of imaging into ANC workflow
• Participate in training, refresher sessions and study meetings as required
• Maintain confidentiality and comply with study protocols and Good Clinical Practice (GCP)

Requirement for appointment

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) mean grade C (plain) with grade C (plain) in English/Kiswahili, Biology/Biological Sciences or Physics/Physical Sciences and C- in Mathematics; 
• 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 Institution.
• Higher diploma in ultra sonography or Medical Imagining from a recognized institution
• Valid professional registration and a practicing license from the relevant regulatory body
• Member of the Society of Radiography in Kenya (SORK)

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

Requirement for Appointment

• Diploma in either Environmental Health Science or Public Health Inspection from a recognized institution
• Registration certificate issued by Public Health Officers & Technicians Council (PHOTC)
• Valid practicing license
• Certificate in Computer application skills from a recognized institution

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive mental state examinations to diagnose complex conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety disorders. 
• Prescribe and manage psychiatric medications (e.g., antidepressants, antipsychotics, stimulants) to balance brain chemistry. 
• Develop and implement tailored treatment plans which may include psychotherapy, medication, or both. 
• Order and interpret laboratory tests and brain imaging to rule out physical illnesses (like thyroid issues) that cause psychiatric symptoms. 
• Administer advanced treatments like electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and deep brain stimulation. 
• Manage mental health crises and provide care for patients with suicidal ideation or severe mental illness

Requirement for Appointment:

• Bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery (MB.Ch.B) degree from an Institution recognized by Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board.
• Master of Medicine (M.Med) in Psychiatry
• Certificate of Registration by the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board 
• Certificate of Recognition from Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC)
• Valid practicing license from Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board
• At least nine (9) years of working experience
• SLDP lasting not less than six (6) weeks from a recognized institution
• Certificate in Computer application skills from a recognized institution