Kakamega County Careers

Duties and Responsibilities

This is the entry and training grade for this cadre.  An officer at this level will be responsible for dispensing drugs/medicines to patients under supervision of a senior officer. Specific duties and responsibilities at this level will include: - 

• Receiving, interpreting, and processing prescriptions; 
• Recording prescriptions in a pharmacy unit; 
• Pre-packing, repacking and writing instructions on labels; 
• Counseling patients on usage of drugs in a pharmacy unit; 
• Maintaining drug registers/books; and 
• Stock-taking of drugs and medicinal devices on monthly basis.

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; 
• 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

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 health care services 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/client’s health condition and care; and
• 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 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 Environmental Health Science or Public Health Inspection from a recognized institution; and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Duties and Responsibilities

An officer at this level will work supervision of a Senior Pharmacist. Duties and responsibilities will include; 

• Screening prescriptions for legal validity, drug contraindications, drug interactions, appropriateness of dose, frequency and duration of dosing and patience convenience; 
• Preparing and dispensing medicines according to Good Dispensing Practices and counseling patients on use of medicines; 
• Making extemporaneous preparations; participating in ward rounds; 
• Identifying medicinal gaps and challenges; maintaining a daily activity log book for recording all activities undertaken; 
• Recommending Over the Counter (OTC) medicines to patients/clients with simple medicinal conditions and making necessary referrals; and 
• Making entries into the relevant inventory management records and registers.  

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade a candidate must have:

• Bachelor of Pharmacy Degree (B Pharm) from an institution recognized by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board;
• Successfully completed one (1) year Internship from a recognized institution;
• Registration certificate by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board; and
• Certificate in Computer Applications 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 or 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 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.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: -

• Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery or Clinical Medicine and Community Health from a recognized institution;
• Certificate of Registration from the Clinical Officers’ Council; and
• Have Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

Duties and Responsibilities

This is the entry grade into this cadre.  An officer at this level will work under supervision of a senior officer.  Duties and responsibilities include; 

• Receiving and recording all patient work and interpreting patient prescriptions; 
• Disinfecting impressions; casting impressions; 
• Making acrylic complete/partial repairs; and 
• Participating in oral/dental health promotion.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: -

• Diploma in Dental Technology or its equivalent qualification;
• Certificate of registration from the Kenya Dental Technologists Association; 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. 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 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.

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); and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution. 

Duties and Responsibilities

This is the entry and training grade for Degree holders.  An officer at this level will work under the supervision and guidance of a 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, labeling and registering patient’s specimens; 
• Preparing laboratory reagents; examining specimens; writing and recording results; 
• Preparing stains and reagents; 
• Recruiting, and preparing and bleeding of blood donors for transfusion services.  Performing blood groupings; 
• Storing blood products according to their requirements; 
• Screening for blood transfusion transmissible infections; 
• Issuing blood and blood products to peripheral health facilities; 
• Preparing blood products; and
• Collecting and analyzing procedures (SOP) supervising the disinfection, washing and sterilization of apparatus, and mentoring trainees on practical attachment.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: -

• Bachelors degree in Medical Laboratory Sciences or any other equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board.;
• Registration Certificate issued by the Kenya Medical Laboratory technicians and Technologists Board (KMLTTB); and
• Valid practicing license from Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board.

Duties and Responsibilities

This is the entry and training grade for Diploma holders.  An officer at this level will work under the supervision and guidance of a senior and experienced officer.  Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail: 

• 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; and 
• Storing blood products according to their requirements.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: -

• Diploma in Medical Laboratory Sciences or any other equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board;
• Registration Certificate issued by the Kenya Medical Laboratory technicians and Technologists Board (KMLTTB);
• Valid practicing license from Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board; and
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.