Duties and Responsibilities:

• This is the entry and training grade for this cadre. An officer at this level will work under the guidance of a senior officer. 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 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.

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.

Duties and responsibilities

• This will be the entry and training grade into this cadre. An officer at this level will work under the guidance of a senior officer.
• Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail; assessing patients and clients and establishing health care needs; planning and implementing nursing carer interventions based on patients/clients health needs; providing appropriate healthcare service, including immunization, ante-natal care, delivery, reffering patients and clients appropriately; evaluating healthcare outcomes on patients/clients preparing individualized reports; making appropriate discharge plans for patients; conducting assessment of school health needs; planning, implementing interventions and preparing periodic reports; maintaining records on patients/clients personal and health conditions/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 ailments.

Requirements for Appointment:
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 Enrolled nurse/midwife from a recognized training institution;
• Enrolment 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.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• This is the entry and training grade into this cadre. An officer at this level will work under guidance of a senior officer. Duties and responsibilities at this level will include: taking history, examining, diagnosing and treating patients’ common ailments at an outpatient and 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 an 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, an officer must have: –

• Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery or Clinical Medicine and Community Health from a recognized institution;
• Certificate of Registration from Clinical officers’ council
• Valid practicing license; and
• Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized Institution

Duties and Responsibilities:

• An officer at this level will work under the guidance of a senior officer. Duties and responsibilities will entail diagnosing, caring for, 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 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, an officer must have: –

• Bachelor of medicine and Bachelor of surgery (M.B.Ch.B) degree from an institution recognized by the medical practitioners and Dentist Board;
• Successfully completed one (1) year internship from a recognized institution;
•  Registration license from the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board
• Valid practising license; and
•  Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution

Duties and Responsibilities:

• This is an entry and training grade for this cadre. An officer at this level will be responsible for Dispensing drugs/ medicines to patients under the supervision of a senior officer.
• Specific duties and responsibilities at this level will include: Receiving, interpreting, and processing of prescription: recording prescriptions in a pharmacy unit; prepacking, re-packing and writing instructions on the labels; maintaining drug books/ register; and stock taking of

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

• Diploma in either Pharmacy or Pharmaceutical Technology or equivalent qualification approved by the Pharmacy and poisons Board from a recognized institution;
•  A Certificate of Enrollment as a Pharmaceutical Technologist awarded by the Pharmacy and poisons Board (PPB); and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail 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; supervising the disinfection, washing, and sterilization of apparatus; preparing media for culture and sensitivity testing; examining specimens for quality; writing and recording of laboratory findings and results; dispatching laboratory results for use in clinical management; preparing blood products; processing the specimen according to the specific standard operating procedures; and preparing operational research proposals and periodical laboratory reports.

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

• Diploma in Medical Laboratory Sciences or any other relevant and equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
• Registration by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution; and,

Duties and Responsibilities:

• This is the entry and training grade for this cadre. Duties and responsibilities at this level will include: preparing and implementing therapeutic diets for outpatients and inpatients; providing guidelines on therapeutic diets from existing and emerging diseases for hospital use and home based care and other institutions; treating and counselling patients using specialized dietetic nutritionally modified products; implementing the nutrition and dietetics process including screening; assessing, formulating, and implementing nutritional interventions and evaluating outcomes; providing nutrition support in patient management in health care facilities; developing and disseminating nutrition behaviour 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 have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in any of the following disciplines: Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics, Dietetics/Clinical Nutrition and Food Science and Nutrition or Home Economics from a recognized institution;
•  Registration by the Council of the Institute of Nutritionists and Dieticians (CIND); and
•  Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• This will be the entry and training grade for this cadre.
• An officer at this level will provide Environmental Health Extension services in the area of deployment, where specific duties and responsibilities will include: 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 in Computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• This will be the entry and training grade into this cadre. An officer at this level will work under the guidance of a senior officer.
• Specific duties and responsibilities will involve:- 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 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 the Physiotherapy Council of Kenya (PCK);
•  Certificate in any computer application skills

Duties and Responsibilities:

• An officer at this level will be deployed in a Supply Chain Management unit in a department and will handle a variety of tasks such as issuing and receiving stores; assisting in stocktaking, reconciliation, preparation and maintenance of records.

Requirements for Appointment:

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must be in possession of: –

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) mean grade C -(minus) with a minimum of C- in Mathematics and English or Kiswahili or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution; and
• A Diploma in Supplies Management or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• This will be the entry and training grade into this cadre. An officer at this level may be deployed in a department to head a small registry. The officer will work under supervision of a more senior officer. Specific duties and responsibilities will include: receiving, sorting, opening, filling, minuting and distribution of mail; dispatching of mails; and guiding on files disposal.

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

• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) mean grade C (plain) from the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution; and
• A Diploma in Records/Information Management or equivalent qualifications from a recognized institution.