Health Services Department Vacancies at Nyandarua County Government

The Nyandarua County Public Service Board invites applications from suitably qualified, competent, and experienced persons to fill the following vacant positions in the County Government of Nyandarua's DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES 

MEDICAL OFFICER, JOB GROUP 'M' - FIVE (5) POSTS

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) Diagnose, care and treat clients;
(ii) Perform medical and surgical procedures;
(iii) Prepare and respond to emergencies and disasters;
(iv) Participate in management of medicines, medical instruments and equipment;
(v) Provide health education;
(vi) Teach and mentor students.

Requirements:

(i) Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) degree from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council;
(ii) Successfully Completed one (1) year internship from a recognized institution;
(iii) Registration certificate and valid practicing license from the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council;
(iv) Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST III, JOB GROUP 'H' - FOUR (4) POSTS

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) Decontaminating working benches;
(ii) Receiving and scrutinizing laboratory requisition forms/specimens;
(iii) Preparing clients for collection of specimens;
(iv) Receiving, collecting, labelling and registering specimens;
(v) Transferring specimens to specific sections for processing and analyses;
(vi) Preparing reagents;
(vii) Examining specimens;
(viii) Writing and recording of results;
(ix) Dispatching the results for clinical management;
(x) Preparing stains;
(xi) Performing blood grouping;
(xii) Issuing blood and blood products to peripheral health facilities;
(xiii) Storing blood products according to their requirements;

Requirements:

(i) Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) Mean grade C (plain), C in English or Kiswahili and Biology/Biological Sciences and Chemistry/Physical Science;
(ii) Have a diploma in Medical Laboratory Sciences from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technician and Technologists Board;
(iii) Be registered by Kenya Medical Laboratory Technician and Technologists Board;
(iv) Have a valid practicing license issued by Kenya Medical Laboratory Technician and Technologists Board.

REGISTERED NURSE III, JOB GROUP 'H' - THIRTY (30) POSTS

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) Assess patients' health conditions;
(ii) Plan nursing care interventions;
(iii) Implement nursing interventions;
(iv) Evaluate patients' outcomes;
(v) Provide appropriate healthcare services;
(vi) Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI);
(vii) Immunization;
(viii) Antenatal care and delivery;
(ix) Provide health education to patients, clients, and the community;
(x) Offer counselling based on identified health needs;
(xi) Refer patients and clients appropriately;
(xii) Facilitate patient admissions;
(xiii) Initiate discharge plans;
(xiv) Maintain accurate patient/client records;
(xv) Ensure a tidy and safe clinical environment;
(xvi) Collect and compile health data;

Requirements:

(i) 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;
(ii) Registration Certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya;
(iii) Valid practicing license from the Nursing Council of Kenya;
(iv) Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized Institution.

ENROLLED NURSE III, JOB GROUP 'G' - TEN (10) POSTS

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) Assessing patients and clients and establishing health care needs;
(ii) Planning and implementing nursing care interventions based on patient's /client's health needs;
(iii) Providing appropriate healthcare services, including immunization, ante-natal care, delivery, referring patients and clients appropriately;
(iv) Evaluating healthcare outcomes on patients / clients preparing individualized reports;
(v) Making appropriate discharge plan for patients;
(vi) Conducting assessments of school health needs;
(vii) Planning, implementing interventions and preparing periodic reports;
(viii) Maintaining records on patients/ clients personal and health condition / care;
(ix) Ensuring a tidy and safe clinical environment;
(x) Ensuring safe custody for in -patients belongings;
(xi) Conducting home visits, following up discharge patients/clients and providing continuity of care and treating minor ailments.

Requirements:

(i) Certificate in any of the following disciplines: Kenya Enrolled Nurse, Kenya Enrolled Community Health Nurse, Kenya Enrolled Midwife, Kenya Enrolled Psychiatric Nurse/Midwife from a recognized institution;
(ii) Enrollment Certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya;
(iii) Valid practicing licence from the Nursing Council of Kenya;
(iv) Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized Institution.

HEALTH RECORDS INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT III, JOB GROUP 'G' - TWO (2) POSTS

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) Receives and documents patients at hospital reception;
(ii) Registers and books appointments for patients to clinics;
(iii) Prepares medical records; storing and retrieving documents;
(iv) Captures data from different service points;
(v) Updates bed bureau, editing patient case records;
(vi) Gathering data for daily bed returns;
(vii) Maintaining record safety and confidentiality;
(viii) Storing and retrieving medical records; maintaining master index;
(ix) Balancing daily bed occupancy; updating patient master index;
(x) Directing patients to relevant clinics; scheduling of patients according to the international specialty clinics;
(xi) Assigning codes to diseases and surgical procedures;
(xii) Preparing Health records and reports according to the International Classification of Diseases and Procedures in Medicine.

Requirements:

(i) Diploma in Health Records and Information Technology from a recognized institution;
(ii) Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

NUTRITION AND DIETETICS TECHNOLOGIST III, JOB GROUP 'H' - TWO (2) POSTS

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) implementing nutrition programs;
(ii) providing nutrition services in health care facilities;
(iii) conducting nutrition assessments;
(iv) collecting and compiling nutrition data;
(v) providing nutrition health education and demonstrations;
(vi) counseling of patients with specific nutritional needs;
(vii) monitoring preparation of therapeutic feeds;
(viii) implementing outpatient and inpatient supplementary and therapeutic feeding programs;
(ix) promoting maternal, infant and young children feeding programs;
(x) providing micronutrient supplementation.

Requirements:

(i) Diploma in Community Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition or Nutrition and Dietetics from a recognized Institution;
(ii) Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution;
(iii) Registration by the Council of the Institute of Nutritionists and Dieticians (CIND).

MEDICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIST III, JOB GROUP 'H' POSTS -TWO (2)

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) Undertaking preventive maintenance and repairs of medical/hospital equipment, plants, instruments and furniture;
(ii) Requisitioning for spare parts and consumables;
(iii) Taking inventory of medical/hospital equipment, furniture and plants; collecting information on medical engineering services for research and reporting; carrying out minor repairs of medical facilities; and implementing medical engineering programs and projects.

Requirements:

(i) Diploma in Medical Engineering or any other equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
(ii) Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGIST III, JOB GROUP 'H' - TWO (2) POSTS

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) Dispense medicines to patients under the supervision of a senior officer;
(ii) Receive and interpret prescriptions;
(iii) Process and record prescriptions in the pharmacy;
(iv) Pre-pack and re-pack medicines;
(v) Label medicines with correct instructions;
(vi) Counsel patients on how to use their medicines properly;
(vii) Keep and update drug registers and records;
(viii) Carry out monthly stock-taking of drugs and medical devices.

Requirements:

(i) Diploma in either Pharmacy or Pharmaceutical Technology or equivalent qualification approved by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board from a recognized Institution;
(ii) Certificate of enrolment as a Pharmaceutical Technologist awarded by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB);
(iii) Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

ASSISTANT PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER III, JOB GROUP 'H' - TWO (2) POSTS

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) Sensitizing and advising communities on matters of environmental health;
(ii) Identifying health related environmental health issues;
(iii) Identifying environmental health issues at community level;
(iv) Referring health cases to relevant health facilities;
(v) Immunization;
(vi) Organizing community health days to advise communities on environmental health issues;
(vii) Collecting and maintaining up-to-date records of common public health and environmental health needs of the community;
(viii) Implementing vector, vermin and rodent control measures;
(ix) Implementing integrated mosquito control strategies.

Requirements:

(i) Diploma in either Environmental Health Science or Public Health Inspection from a recognized institution;
(ii) Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.

ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA TECHNICIAN III, JOB GROUP 'G' - ONE (1) POST

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) Manipulating and reducing fractures and dislocations;
(ii) Fixing and removing casts, bandages to and from patients;
(iii) Correcting Congenital Talipes Equino-Varus (C.T.E.V);
(iv) Participating in the management of minor Orthopaedic and Trauma cases in emergencies and accidents;
(v) Sensitizing and creating awareness on Orthopaedic Trauma conditions to the community;
(vi) Counselling patients/clients on issues regarding Orthopaedic Trauma.

Requirements:

(i) Certificate in either Orthopaedic Plaster and Traction Technology or Orthopaedic Plaster Technology from a recognized institution;
(ii) Certificate in Computer Application skills from a recognized institution;

FAREWELL HOME ASSISTANT II, JOB GROUP 'G' - TWO (2) POSTS

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) Remove the deceased from the place of death;
(ii) Receive bodies and tag them for proper identification;
(iii) Escort mourners to funeral chapels;
(iv) Organize the reception after the service.

Requirements:

(i) Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) 'D' plain or its equivalent;
(ii) One (1) year work experience in a funeral establishment;
(iii) Membership of a registered funeral professional association;
(iv) Minimum of three months training in Embalming, mortuary science or funeral service;
(v) Proficiency in computer skills.

COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSISTANT III, JOB GROUP 'G' - (1 POST)

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) Collecting community health related data;
(ii) Maintaining community health unit records;
(iii) Identifying common ailments and minor injuries;
(iv) Responding to health cases and referring to appropriate health facilities;
(v) Identifying household-level health situations through community visits;
(vi) Identifying and sensitizing communities on health interventions;
(vii) Managing community health resource centers;
(viii) Tracing and referring defaulters of health interventions, including children under the age of five years;
(ix) Appropriate health monitoring of children and household members;
(x) Coordinating monthly community meetings and action days.

Requirements:

(i) Diploma in any of the following disciplines: Community Health, Community Health Nursing, Nutrition, Psychology, Environmental Health, Counseling, Social Work, Community Development or any other equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
(ii) Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution.

HEALTH ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER II, JOB GROUP 'J' - ONE (1) POST

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) Assist in implementation of health administrative policies, strategies, procedures and programs;
(ii) Coordination of catering and housekeeping services;
(iii) Assist in overseeing staff and patient's welfare by ensuring their security;
(iv) Assist in overseeing transport management, utilization and management of stores & equipment, overseeing staff and patients' welfare by ensuring their security; management of the hospital/health institution mortuary;
(v) Provide secretarial and administrative services to various committees and maintenance of health administrative service standards in hospital/health institutions.

Requirements:

(i) Bachelor's Degree in any of the following social Sciences: Government, Anthropology, Sociology, Business Administration, Public Administration, Commerce, Health Economics or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
(ii) Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution;
(iii) Membership to Kenya Association of Health Administrators.

EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN, JOB GROUP 'G' - ONE (1) POST

Terms of Service: Five (5) year renewable contract with a provision to translate to permanent and pensionable.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(i) Responding promptly to emergency calls and ambulance dispatches;
(ii) Providing basic emergency medical care and first aid to patients;
(iii) Assessing patients' condition and taking vital signs;
(iv) Stabilizing patients before and during transportation;
(v) Safely lifting, handling, and transferring patients;
(vi) Operating and maintaining ambulance equipment and emergency kits;
(vii) Assisting in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other life-saving procedures;
(viii) Ensuring safe and timely transportation of patients to health facilities;
(ix) Communicating patient conditions to receiving medical teams;
(x) Maintaining accurate patient care records and ambulance reports;
(xi) Ensuring cleanliness, readiness, and restocking of ambulances;
(xii) Observing infection prevention and control procedures;
(xiii) Participating in disaster response, mass casualty management, and emergency drills;
(xiv) Providing health education on basic emergency response and first aid;
(xv) Performing any other relevant duties assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements:

(i) Certificate or Diploma in Emergency Medical Technician, Emergency Medical Care, Paramedic Studies, or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
(ii) Valid certification in Basic Life Support;
(iii) Training in First Aid, trauma care, or pre-hospital emergency care;
(iv) Valid driving license will be an added advantage where ambulance operation is required;
(v) Registration or certification by a relevant professional body, where applicable;
(vi) Certificate in computer application skills will be an added advantage.

Key Competencies and Skills:

(i) Emergency response and patient stabilization skills;
(ii) First aid and basic life support skill;
(iii) Good communication and teamwork;
(iv) Ability to remain calm under pressure;
(v) Physical fitness and alertness;
(vi) Integrity, discipline, and compassion;
(vii) Record keeping and reporting skills;
(viii) Knowledge of infection prevention and control procedure.

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Deadline: Wednesday, July 1, 2026

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