Nandi County is Kenya’s athletics hub.It is home to tens of the world’s celebrated athletes, including world record breakers such as Pamela Jelimo, Janet Jepkosgei and the legendary athlete Kipchoge Keino. The 2,884 square kilometres ‘home of champions’ borders Baringo to the east, Vihiga and Kakamega to the west, Uasin Gishu to th...
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- Assistant Health Records and Information Management Officer III - 48 Posts
- Health Records and Information Management Assistant III - 18 Posts
- Health Records and Information Management Officer – 4 Posts
- Assistant Occupational Therapist III - 3 Posts
- Assistant Physiotherapist III - 22 Posts
- Community Health Assistant III - 61 Posts
- Assistant Community Health Officer III - 16 Posts
- Community Health Officer I - 25 Posts
- Dental Technologist III - 2 Posts
- Medical Engineering Technologist I
- Medical Engineering Technologist III - 10 Posts
- Medical Engineering Technician III – 4 Posts
- Senior Medical Laboratory Technologist - 2 Posts
- Medical Laboratory Officer - 17 Posts
- Medical Social Worker I - 8 Posts
- Assistant Medical Social Worker III - 16 Posts
- Nutrition and Dietetics Officer - 26 Posts
- Nutrition and Dietetic Technologist III - 43 Posts
- Nutrition and Dietetics Technician III - 4 Posts
- Orthopaedic Trauma Technician III - 6 Posts
- Method of Application
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldICT / Computer 
Requirements for Appointment:
For appointment to this grade, an officer must have:
- Diploma in Health Records and Information Technology from a recognized institution;
- Must be registered by Association of Medical Records Officers (AMRO); and
- Certificate in computer application skills for a recognized institution
Duties and responsibilities
- This is the entry and training grade for this cadre. An officer at this level will work under guidance over senior officer and experience officer.
Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail;
- Receiving and documenting patients at hospital reception, registering and booking appointments for patients to the clinic and consultants;
- Storing and retrieved retrieving medical records documents;
- Preparing clinics then: updating bed bureau;
- Anything of patient case records; gathering data from different sources; capturing data from service point; maintaining record safety and confidentiality; Storing and retrieving medical records; balancing daily bed return; creating and maintaining master index; updating patient master index; directing patients to relevant clinic;
- Scheduling of patients to the consultants and specialty clinics;
- Assigning codes to diseases and procedures according to the international classification of disease and procedures in medicine; and
- Preparing health records and reports
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldICT / Computer 
Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: -
- Certificate in Health Records and Information Technology from a recognized institution;
- Must be registered by Association of Medical Records Officers (AMRO); and
- Certificate in computer application skills from 'a recognized institution.
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 more senior officer.
- Duties and responsibilities will entail: -
- 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.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldICT / Computer 
Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: -
- Bachelor’s degree in Health Records and Information Management from a recognized institution;
- Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution; and
- Must be registered by Association of Medical Records Officers (AMRO)
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 more senior and experienced officer.
- Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail:
- Storing and retrieving medical records and documents;
- Preparing clinics; updating bed bureau; editing patient case records;
- Capturing data from service points;
- Maintaining record safety and confidentiality;
- Balancing daily bed returns;
- Maintaining patient Master Index;
- Scheduling of patients to the consultants and specialty clinics; assigning codes to diseases and surgical procedures; indexing diseases and surgical procedures according to the International Classification of Diseases and Procedures in Medicine;
- Compiling medical reports; sharing of health information with other stakeholders;
- Analyzing data;
- Compiling bio data; and
- Preparing medical records and reports.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldMedical / Healthcare 
Requirements for appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: -
- Diploma in occupational therapy from a recognized institution; and
- Certificate in computer application skills from recognized institution.
Duties and responsibilities
This will be integrated into Occupational Therapist Cadre. An officer at this level will work under the guidance of a senior officer.
Specifically, Duties and responsibilities will involve;
- Assessing and formulating patient’s treatment plan;
- Maintaining records and data relating to patients;
- Collecting data for occupational research;
- Sensitizing the community on occupational therapy issues; and
- Preparing periodic reports.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldMedical / Healthcare 
Requirements for appointment;
For appointment to this grade an officer must have:
- Diploma in Physiotherapy from a recognized institution:
- Certificate of registration from the Physiotherapy Council of Kenya (PCK); and
- Current certificate of practice from physiotherapy Council of Kenya.
Duties and responsibilities.
- This will be the entry and training grid 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 in patients and out patients at an outpatient unit/word/health distribution;
- Assessing patients’ 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.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldMedical / Healthcare 
Requirements for appointment.
- Certificate in any of the following disciplines: Community Health or Community Development from a recognized institution:
- Certificate in computer application skills from recognized institutions;
- Membership to professional body and
- Shown merits and ability as reflected in work performance.
Duties and responsibilities.
This will be the entry and training rate for this cadre. Duties and respond disabilities at this level will include:
- Visiting homes to determine health situation and dialogue with household members;
- Identifying and synthetizing communities on health intervention;
- Identifying common ailments and minor injuries at community level;
- Collecting data at the household level for analysis;
- Distributing Information Education Communication materials, mosquito nets and other commodities to households;
- Identifying defaulters of health interventions and other health cases and referring them to the health facilities; and
- Maintaining and updating health that are using health registers.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldMedical / Healthcare 
Requirement for Appointment
For appointing to this grade, a candidate must have: -
- Diploma in any of the following disciplines; Community Health and Community Development from a recognized institution;
- Membership to professional body and
- Certificate in computer applications skills from a recognized institution.
Duties and responsibilities
- This will be an entry and training grade for this cadre.
Duties and responsibilities at this level will include:
- Collecting health data at household level analysis;
- Maintaining and abbreviating community health unit registers and keeping records;
- Identifying common ailments and minor injuries at community level;
- Identifying and referring health cases to appropriate health facilities;
- Relating homes to determine the health situation and dialog with household members;
- Identifying and synthetizing communities on health interventions;
- Monitoring growth of children under the age of five years;
- Identifying defaulters of health interventions and referring them to the appropriate health facilities;
- Managing community health resource centres; and
- Convening and coordinating monthly community meetings and action days.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldMedical / Healthcare 
Requirements for Appointment.
For appointment to this grade a candidate must have
- Bachelor’s Degree in any of the following disciplines: Community Health, Community Development, Health Systems Management from a recognized institution;
- Membership to professional body and
- Certificates in computer application skills from recognizing institutions
Duties and responsibilities.
This will be the entry and training grade for this cadre. Duties and responsibilities at this level will include:
- Identifying common ailments and minor injuries at the community level for appropriate action;
- Identifying and referring health cases to the appropriate health facilities; coordinating community health activities;
- Collecting health data from household level for analysis;
- Sensitizing and disseminating health information to the community;
- Identifying defaulters of health interventions and referring them to the appropriate health facilities;
- Convening meetings for dialog and action days in collaboration with other stakeholders; and
- Requisitioning refills for the community health workers kits.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldMedical / Healthcare 
Requirements for Appointment.
For appointment to this grade, one must have:
- Diploma in Dental Technology from a recognized institution;
- Have successfully completed one-year mandatory internship;
- Registered by the Kenya Dental Technologists Association with a valid practice license; and
- Proficiency in computer application skills.
Duties and responsibilities
This is the entry grade into this cadre having successfully completed one-year mandatory internship; the officer is expected to work under supervision of his/her senior. Work assigned to this officer should be of limited scope and complexity and should mainly involve;
- Pouring of working and study casts
- Fabrication of simple dental prostheses and appliances,
- Ensure proper infection prevention and control measures,
- Receive and record all patient work,
- Interpret patient prescription,
- Make work plans and implementation,
- Participate in oral/dental health promotion.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldScience 
Requirements for appointments.
- Diploma in medical engineering or any other qualification from recognized institutions;
- Higher Diploma in Medical Engineering Technology in Dialysis; and
- Shown merits and ability as reflected in work performance
Duties and Responsibilities.
Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail: Specific duties and responsibilities will entail;
- Implementing medical engineering programs and projects;
- Providing user support; undertaking preventive maintenance and repairs of medical/hospital equipment, plants, furniture and instruments;
- Installing medical equipment and furniture for medium technology; providing specifications for spare parts and consumable;
- Maintaining inventory of hospital and medical equipment, furniture and plants;
- Processing of information for research; updating and maintaining information on medical engineering services for input into the integrated health information management system and synthetizing users on the use and maintenance of medical equipment.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldMedical / Healthcare 
Requirements for appointment.
For appointment to this grade a candidate must have:
- Diploma in medical engineering or any other equivalent qualification from recognized institution;
- Membership to professional body and
- Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.
Duties and responsibilities.
This is the entry and training grade for this cadre. An officer at this level will work under supervision of senior officer.
- Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail: specific duties and responsibilities will entail:
- Undertaking preventive maintenance and repairs of medical and hospital equipment, plants, instruments and furniture;
- Requisitioning for spare parts and consumables;
- Taking inventory of medical and hospital equipment, furniture and plants;
- Collecting information for research; collecting information on medical engineering services for input into the integrated health information modernity system;
- Carrying out minor repairs of health facilities and utilities; and
- Implementing medical engineering programs and projects.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldScience 
Requirements for appointment.
For appointment to this grade a candidate must have:
- Certificate in medical engineering or any other equivalent qualification from market recognized institution; and
- Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.
Duties and responsibilities.
This is the entry and on the job training grade for certificate holders. An officer at this level will under guidance of senior officer. Specific duties and responsibilities will entail:
- Undertaking routine maintenance and repairs of basic equipment, Plants, Instruments and utilities in health facility;
- Collecting information for research;
- Collecting information on medical engineering services for inputs into the integrated health information management system; and
- Implementing medical engineering program and projects.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldScience 
Requirements for appointments.
For appointment to this grade, an officer must have:
- Diploma in Medical Laboratory Science or any other equivalent qualifications from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technician and Technologist Board (KMLTB);
- Higher Diploma in Medical Laboratory in Microbiology, Histopathology/Cytopathology;
- Registration certificate issued by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board;
- A valid practicing license from Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board; and
- Shown merit and ability has reflected in work performance and results.
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, labelling and registering specimens;
- Disaggregating specimen for processing and analysis;
- Preparing reagents; supervising that disinfection, washing and sterilization of apparatus;
- Maintaining equipment and reagents for victor insecticides application, monitoring and evaluation; preparing media for culture and sensitivity testing;
- Examining specimen for quality;
- Writing and recording laboratory findings and results;
- Dispatching laboratory results for use in clinical management;
- Preparing stain;
- Preparing blood product;
- collecting and analyzing data;
- Processing the specimen according to the specific standard operating procedures (sop);
- Mentoring and coaching trainees on practical attachment; and
- Preparing periodic reports.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldScience 
Duties and responsibilities.
This is the entry and training grade for degree holders. An officer at this level will work under supervision and guidance over senior and experienced officer. Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail:
- Receiving and scrutinizing laboratory requisition forms and specimens;
- Preparing clients for collection of specimens;
- Receiving, collecting labelling and registering patient’s specimen;
- Preparing laboratory reagents; examining specimens;
- Writing and recording results; preparing stains and reagents;
- Recruiting and preparing and bleeding of blood donors for transition services.
In addition, Duties and responsibilities will include:
- Performing blood grouping;
- Storing black products according to their requirements;
- Screening for blood transfusion transmissible infections;
- Issuing blood and blood products to peripheral health facilities;
- Preparing blood products; collecting analyzing data;
- fProcessing of specimen according to their specified standard operating procedures;
- Supervising the disinfection, washing and sterilization of apparatus; and
- Mentoring and coaching trainees on practical attachments.
Requirements for appointment.
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have
- Bachelor’s Degree in Medical Laboratory Science or any other equivalent qualifications from an institution recognized by Kenya Medical Laboratory Technician and Technologist Board;
- Registration Certificate issued by Kenya Medical Laboratory Technician and Technologists Board;
- Valid practicing license from Kenya Medical Laboratory Technician and Technologist Board; and
- Certificate in computer application skills for a recognized institution.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldMedical / Healthcare 
Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: -
- Bachelor’s degree in any of the following disciplines: Medical Social Work, Mental Health, Psychology or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
- Membership to professional body and
- Computer proficiency.
Duties and Responsibilities
- This will be the entry and training grade for professional degree holders. An officer at this level will work under the supervision of a senior officer.
Duties and responsibilities at this level will include:
- Identifying needy clients for social medical support;
- Evaluating and assessing clients;
- Sensitizing and enrolling clients to social health authority and social health insurance fund;
- Counselling patients;
- Conducting home visits to discharged patients;
- Disseminating treatment literacy information, education and communication forming part of a health team in addressing psychosocial effects related to patients’ diagnosis, prognosis and future resettlement;
- Counselling of patients particularly in cases associated with pandemic diseases, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, epilepsy, tuberculosis among others; and
- Facilitating psychosocial support groups at facility and community levels.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldMedical / Healthcare 
Requirements for Appointment
- Diploma in any of the following fields: Medical Social Work, Social Work, Sociology, Mental Health, Psychology or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
- Membership to professional body and
- Computer proficiency.
Duties and Responsibilities
This will be the entry grade for Diploma holders. An officer at this level will work under the supervision of a senior officer.
Duties and responsibilities at this level will include:
- Assessing psycho-social history of patients/clients;
- Recording psycho-social history of patients/clients;
- Identifying needy clients for psycho- social support;
- Verifying supportive documents provided by patients/clients;
- Collecting patient/clients’ biodata including relevant interventions; and
- Sensitizing and enabling enrolment of clients to social health authority and social health insurance fund or choice health insurance covers.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldMedical / Healthcare 
Duties and Responsibilities
This will be the entry grade into this cadre. Duties and responsibilities at this level will include:
- 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 counselling patients using specialized dietetic nutritionally modified products;
- Implementing the nutrition and 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 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, Food Science and Nutrition or Home Economics from a recognized institution;
- Valid practice license from Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute (KNDI): and
- Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldMedical / Healthcare 
Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:
- Diploma in Community Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition or Nutrition and Dietetics from a recognized institution;
- Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution; and
- Valid practice license from Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute (KNDI).
Duties and Responsibilities
- This is the entry and training grade into this cadre.
- 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 supplementation.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldMedical / Healthcare 
Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:
- Certificate in Community Nutrition from a recognized institution;
- Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution; and
- Valid practice license from Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute (KNDI)
Duties and Responsibilities
- This will be the entry and training grade for this cadre. Work at this level will be carried out under the guidance and supervision of a senior officer.
Duties and responsibilities at this level will include:
- Assessing community nutrition needs;
- Following-up on discharge cases from hospitals;
- Screening for deficiency diseases and chronic illnesses related to nutrition in a community setting and referring them to various existing programs;
- Collecting data on nutrition and dietetics;
- Promoting baby friendly community initiatives:
- Conducting community growth, monitoring and promotion activities;
- Assisting in community interventions on diet and lifestyle disease prevention and control; promoting optimal infant and young child feeding programmes;
- Assisting in running out patient supplementary feeding programs and outpatient therapeutic feeding programs; following up and counselling of patients in home-based disease management; and carrying out nutrition health education
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationDiploma
- Experience
- LocationNandi
- Job FieldMedical / Healthcare 
Requirements for appointment
For appointment to this grade a candidate must have
- Certificate in either orthopaedic plaster and traction technology or orthopaedic plaster technology from a recognized institution;
- Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.
Duties and responsibilities
- This is the entry and training grade for this cadre. An officer at this level will work under the guidance and supervision of an experienced officer.
Duties and responsibilities entail:
- Manipulating and reducing fractures and dislocation;
- Fixing and removing casts, bandages to and from patients;
- Correcting Congenital Talipes Equino-Virus (C.T.E.V);
- Participating in the management of minor orthopaedic and trauma cases in emergencies and accidents;
- Sensitizing and creating awareness on orthopaedic trauma conditions to the communities; and
- Counselling patients/clients on issues regarding orthopaedic trauma.
Method of Application
Interested persons who meet the above minimum criteria are requested to submit hardcopy applications enclosing a curriculum vitae (CV) and copies of relevant academic and professional certificates. The CV must at the minimum provide details of current employer, contacts of three (3) referees familiar with the applicant’s professional and work record.
Applications to be hand delivered to the following address: -
The Secretary/Chief Executive Officer,
Nandi County Public Service Board,
P.O Box 802 – 30300,
KAPSABET.
Applications must be received by 5.00 pm on 13th November 2024.
Important Notice to Applicants
Any form of Canvassing will result in automatic disqualification. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, and official communication will be made through the Nandi County Public Service Board’s mobile number: 0781 848494.
