Registered Clinical Officer - 4 Posts

Duties and Responsibilities

• Taking history, examining, diagnosing and treating patients’ common ailment at an outpatient or inpatient health facility.
• Implementing community health care activities in liason with other health workers
• Guiding and counseling patients, client and staff on health issues
• Sensitizing patients and clients on preventive and promote health; referring patients and clients to appropriate health facilities.
• Providing clinical outreach and school health services
• Carrying out minor surgical procedures as per training and skill; collecting and compiling clinical data assessing, preparing and presenting medico- legal reports.
• Support clinical management of opportunistic infections.
• Offer integrated prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT)
• Screening for HIV exposure in children, ART initiation and follow up during ANC and PMC and appropriate follow up on HIV infected children as per National guidelines.
• Support integrated TB/HIV service including a TB active case finding and ICF, TB Preventive treatment  
• Appropriate and timely initiation of TB and ART treatment and TB patient follow up and accurately documentation of treatment outcomes.  
• Support integration of the following services in routine HIV Care-family planning cervical cancer screening, GBV screening and referral, PEP and PrEP services.
• Monitor facility ART cohort growth by ensuring program retention strategies are implemented with fidelity.
• Support facility rational use of ART and TB commodities through good dispensing practices, stock monitoring, reporting, placing order and pharmacovigilance. 
• As a technical member of facility service delivery team, participate in implementation of QI project, preparation review and submission of report, multi-disciplinary team meetings and trainings, ECHO/Zoom meetings and trainings.
• Collecting and compiling clinical data
• Referring patients and clients to appropriate health facilities
• Actively participate in other service delivery areas and joint facility activities.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

• Be a Kenyan citizen.
• Minimum of C plain in KCSE
• Diploma in clinical Medicine and surgery from a recognized medical training institution.
• Registered with the clinical officers Council and possess a valid practicing license.
• Certificate in Computer Application Skills from a recognized institution is an added advantage.