Job Description:

About the Job

The role involves assessing patients and clients and establishing health care needs, planning and implementing nursing care interventions based on patients’/clients’ health needs, providing health education and counselling on identified health and socio-economic needs to patients/clients, referring patients and clients appropriately, facilitating patients’ admission and discharge in a health facility, ensuring a tidy and safe clinical environment, ensuring safe custody of in-patients belongings, maintaining records on patients/clients personal and health condition/care, conducting assessment of school health needs, planning, implementing interventions and preparing periodic reports, conducting occupational health needs assessment, planning, implementing, evaluating, making recommendations and preparing periodic reports, providing appropriate healthcare services including immunization, reproductive health, guiding and orienting staff, students and health personnel, and carrying out health outreach activities.

Responsibilities

Assessing patients and clients and establishing health care needs.
Planning and implementing nursing care interventions based on patients’/clients’ health needs.
Providing health education and counselling on identified health and socio-economic needs to patients/clients! referring patients and clients appropriately.
Facilitating patients’ admission and discharge in a health facility.
Ensuring a tidy and safe clinical environment.
Ensuring safe custody of in-patients belongings.
Maintaining records on patients/clients personal and health condition/care.
Conducting assessment of school health needs.
Planning, implementing interventions and preparing periodic reports.
Conducting occupational health needs assessment, planning, implementing, evaluating, making recommendations and preparing periodic reports.
Providing appropriate healthcare services including immunization, reproductive health.
Guiding and orienting staff, students and health personnel.
Carrying out health outreach activities.

Requirements

Served in the grade of Senior Enrolled Nurse II for a minimum period of three (3) years.
Certificate in any of the following disciplines: Kenya Enrolled Nurse, Kenya Enrolled Community Health Nurse, Kenya Enrolled Midwife, Kenya Enrolled Psychiatric Nurse or Enrolled Nurse/Midwife from a recognized training institution.
Enrolment Certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya.
Valid practicing license from Nursing Council of Kenya.
Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.
Shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results.