Career Opportunities at Public Service Commission

Job Description

• Served for a minimum period of three (3) years in the grade of Health Records and Information Management Officer, Job Group ‘K’;
• A Bachelor’s degree in Health Records and Information Management from a university recognized in Kenya; and
• Shown merit and ability in work performance and results.

Responsibilities

• Implementing health records and information policies, standards and guidelines;
• Providing advice on disclosure, confidentiality, security and exchange of health records and information;
• Carrying out health records and information system review;
• Capturing data from service points;
• Disseminating health information where necessary;
• Maintaining safety of health records and confidentiality;
• Maintaining diagnostic and surgical indices;
• Maintaining a Master Index; and
• Coding diseases and surgical procedures according to the International Classification of Diseases and Procedures in Medicine.

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Job Description

• Served in the grade of Pharmaceutical Technologist II, Job Group ‘J’ for at least three (3) years;
• A Diploma in either Pharmacy or Pharmaceutical Technology or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
• A certificate of Enrollment as Pharmaceutical Technologist awarded by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB); and
• Shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results.

Responsibilities

• Receiving, interpreting, and processing of prescriptions;
• Promoting rational drug/medicines use; acquiring of drugs/medicines for the health facility;
• Preparing and submitting reports; providing health education on rational use of drugs/medicines; receiving complaints and reporting adverse drug reaction; and
• Receiving and reporting poor quality medicine.

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Job Description

• Served for a minimum period of three (3) years in the grade of Enrolled Nurse I, Job Group ‘J’;
• A Certificate in any of the following disciplines: Kenya Enrolled Nurse, Kenya Enrolled Community Health Nurse, Kenya Enrolled Midwife, Kenya Enrolled Psychiatric Nurse or Enrolled Nurse/Midwife from a recognized training institution;
• Enrolment Certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya;
• A valid practising license from Nursing Council of Kenya; and
• Shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results

Responsibilities

• Assessing patients and clients and establishing health care needs;
• Planning and implementing nursing care interventions based on patients’/clients’ health needs;
• Providing health education and counselling on identified health and socioeconomic needs to patients/clients;
• Facilitating patients’ admission and discharge in a health facility;
• Making appropriate discharge plan for patients;
• Ensuring safe custody of in-patients belongings; maintaining records on patients/clients personal and health condition/care; conducting assessment of school health needs;
• Planning, implementing interventions and preparing periodic reports;
• Conducting occupational health needs assessment; and
• Providing appropriate healthcare services including immunization, reproductive health; guiding and orienting staff and students; and carrying out health outreach activities.

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Job Description

• Served for a minimum period of three (3) years in the grade of Medical Laboratory Technologist III, Job Group ‘H’;
• A Diploma in Medical Laboratory Sciences or any other equivalent qualification from an institution recognized in Kenya;
• A registration certificate issued by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technician and Technologists Board (KMLTTB); and
• A valid practicing license from the Keya Medical Laboratory Technician and Technologists Board (KMLTTB).

Responsibilities

• Carrying out blood grouping and screening for blood transfusion infections;
• Issuing blood and blood products to health facilities as per request;
• Preparing blood products for safe custody or use;
• Decontaminating working benches;
• Receiving and scrutinizing laboratory requisition forms and specimens;
• Receiving, collecting, labelling and registering specimens;
• Disaggregating specimens for processing and analysis;
• Preparing stains and reagents;
• Dispatching the results for use in clinical management; and
• Recruiting, preparing and bleeding of donors for transfusion services.

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Job Description

• Served for a minimum period of two (2) years in the grade of Nursing Officer, Job Group ‘K’;
• A Bachelor’s degree in either Nursing or Midwifery from a university recognized in Kenya;
• A registration certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya;
• A valid practicing License from the Nursing Council of Kenya; and
• Shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results.

Responsibilities

• Formulating, planning and implementing evidence-based nursing care for client/patient;
• Providing holistic care by carrying out risk identification and assessment of an individual throughout the lifespan;
• Conducting occupational health needs assessment, planning, implementing, evaluating, making recommendations and preparing periodic reports;
• Conducting desk review, collecting data and implementing recommendations of the findings for improvement of nursing care.
• Conducting a community health risk assessment and providing outcome based interventions;
• Facilitating patients’ admission and initiating discharge plans;
• Following up convalescing patients referred from higher facilities for continuity of care; and
• Conducting assessment of school health needs, plan, implement interventions, and preparing periodic reports.

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Job Description

• Served for a minimum period of three (3) years in the grade of Senior Clinical Officer, Job Group ‘L’;
• A Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Medicine from a university recognized in Kenya;
• A certificate of Registration from the Clinical Officers’ Council; and
• Shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results

Responsibilities

• Implementing community health care activities in liaison with other health workers;
• Conducting ward rounds, reviewing and making appropriate referrals;
• Carrying out surgical procedures as per training and skill;
• Offering specialized clinical services including Ear, Nose and Throat/Audiology, Orthopedics and Trauma,
• Child Health and Pediatrics, Reproductive Health, Ophthalmology, Anesthesia, Lungs and Skin, Dermatology and Venereology;
• Guiding and counseling patients, clients and staff on health issues;
• Providing clinical outreach and school health services;
• Assessing, preparing and presenting medico-legal reports; and
• Carrying out disease surveillance and recommending appropriate control measures.