Kakamega county health jobs

The project is implemented at the county level, in the community and health facilities in the counties of Homa Bay, Migori, Nyamira, Kisumu, Kakamega, Vihiga and Kisii, in close collaboration with and support of county health management teams, department of children and social services and the Ministry of Health of Kenya.Responsibilities:Support the program officers and the M&E officers in the pr...

PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms-vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations-that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity. Summary The projec...

PATH current employees - please log in and apply PATH is a global nonprofit dedicated to achieving health equity. With more than 40 years of experience forging multisector partnerships and with expertise in science, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales up innovative solutions to the world's most pressing heath challenges. PATH Kenya works to a...

The promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, introduced the devolved system of Government which resulted to the formation of the 47 Counties across the Country, Kakamega County being among them. Duties and Responsibilities Overall farm management and achieving agreed targets. Implementing all Livestock policies and programs through coordination of farm operations and timely and accurate r...

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; Carr...

Duties and Responsibilities The duties will include:- Providing administrative support services to health-related projects; Coordination of County Government Health Programmes and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) involved in the delivery of health care services or in health-related services; Reviewing, formulating and implementing health and administrative policies, procedures and programmes...

Duties and Responsibilities This will be the entry and training grade for this cadre. Duties and responsibilities at this level will include: Visiting homes to determine health situations and dialogue with household members; Identifying and sensitizing communities on health interventions; Identifying common ailments and minor injuries at community level; Collecting health data at household level ...

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. An officer at this level may be deployed at a Sub-County Office or Sub-County Hospital and will be exposed to various administrative duties which will include: Procurement, provision and maintenance of facilities; Preparation of budgets;...

Duties and Responsibilities This will be the entry and training grade for this Cadre. Specific duties will include: Participating in oral health demonstrations, exhibitions and giving lectures to communities and schools, collecting data for fluoride testing in water samples, analyzing and interpreting results and advising the relevant authorities accordingly; Diagnosis and treatment of common den...

Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (KANCO). KANCO is a membership organization established in the early 1990sin Kenya with operations in the eastern Africa Summary KANCO is seeking to recruit a Psychological Counselor in Kakamega County. The Psychological Counselor will support the day-to-day implementation of the USAID Nuru ya Mtoto Key Populations Project activities. The Psychological Counselor will be...

Duties and Responsibilities An officer at this level will work under guidance of a senior officer. Duties and responsibilities will entail: Diagnosing, caring 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 m...

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 and experienced officer. Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail: Receiving and documenting patients at hospital reception; Registering and booking appointment for patients to clinics and consultants; Storing and retrieving medica...

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 will entail: Providing holistic care by carrying out risk identification and assessment of an individual throughout the lifespan; performing a comprehensive physical examination within various settings; Assessing, f...

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....

Duties and Responsibilities An officer at this level will work under supervision of a senior experienced officer. Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail: Providing dental care including; diagnosing common oral conditions, treating, prescribing and referring, carrying out minor oral and maxillofacial surgery, prosthetics, and conservative dentistry; Facilitating admission, disease i...

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...

Duties and Responsibilities This is the entry grade into the orthopaedic Technologists Cadre. An officer at this level will work under the guidance of a senior officer. Duties and responsibilities involve: Provision of supportive services in orthopaedics which entail preparation and fitting of appliances that are required in orthopaedics in health institutions; Assessing patients needs; Verificat...

Duties and Responsibilities Collection of bodies from wards; Performing autopsy procedures; Body embalming; admission and dispatch of bodies; Cleaning of the mortuary; Cleaning of mortuary equipment and body reconstruction; Wrapping in mortuary sheets, labelling and storing of dead bodies in the Cold room of the mortuary; and Keeping of appropriate registers for receipt and delivery of dead bodie...

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 ...

Duties and Responsibilities Duties and responsibilities at this level will include: Preparing and implementing therapeutic diets for outpatients and inpatients; Providing guidelines on diets for existing and emerging diseases for hospital use and home-based care; Treating and counseling patients using specialised dietetic nutritionally modified products; Implementing the nutrition and dietetic pr...

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 an...

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 othe...

Duties and Responsibilities This is the entry and training grade for this cadre. An officer at this level will work under the supervision of a Senior Officer. Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail: Undertaking preventive maintenance and repairs of medical/hospital equipment, plants, instruments and furniture; Requisitioning for spare parts and consumables; Taking inventory of medi...

Duties and Responsibilities An officer at this level will be responsible for handling psychosocial problems of patients in a hospital or psychiatric unit; and This will include extracting psychosocial information from the patient and observation of causal factors which might be useful to the treatment plan and the implementation of patient's treatment programme and follow-up on discharge. Require...