Caritas Lodwar -
Health Programme invites applications from experienced persons to fill a
vacancy as Laboratory Technologist
Programme: Health
Reporting to: Health
Unit in Charge
Duty Station: Turkana
County
Issue date: 16th December, 2015
Closing date: 15th January, 2015
Position Summary: Assist
in the coordination of laboratory activities.
Provide accurate, timely and cost
effective testing of patient samples to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of
disease in compliance and harmony with the quality management system.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Performs a variety of technical laboratory
procedures according to medical center, laboratory and national standards
to obtain patient specimens, to ensure specimens quality used to aid in
the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
- Responsible for accurately completing records
and reports and other statistical information for master files or
databases.
- Complies with laboratory safety procedures,
possesses adequate knowledge of instrumentation, theory and application of
new and existing tests
- Maintains positive working relationship with
the medical staff and hospital personnel.
- Assumes responsibility to resolve problems.
Performs required preventive maintenance process.
- Carry out laboratory investigation to
inpatient and outpatient clients.
- Perform any other duties which may be required
from time to time.
Qualifications
- Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology
- Must be registered under the Kenya Medical
Laboratory Technicians and Technologist Board (KMLTTB)
- 1 – 3 years’ experience in a busy hospital set
up
- Good clinical laboratory practices/infection
control certificate
Job Title: Pharmaceutical Technologist
1 Post
Programme: Health
Location: Lodwar
Reporting to: Unit
in Charge
Date of issue: 16th December, 2015
Deadline: 15th
January, 2016
Key Responsibilities and
Accountabilities;
- Assist in labeling and filling prescriptions
- Assist patients in dropping off and picking up
prescriptions
- Verify receipt of current drugs
- Scheduling and maintaining workflow
- Pre-package bulk medications and medication
ordering
- Ensure good stock control of drugs, prepare
and maintaining medication inventories
- Assisting in/out patients dispensing and
effectively managing the dispensing of all drugs and other commodities
- Effectively manage the dispensing of all drugs
and other commodities
- Assist in Pharmacovigilance
- Prepare comprehensive monthly report to the
management.
- Perform any other duties which may be required
from time to time.
Qualifications, Attributes and Other
Requirements Specific to the Role
- Diploma in Pharmaceutical Technology
- At least two years relevant work experience
- Valid registration license by the Pharmacy and
Poison Board
- Ability to work as part of a team
Caritas Lodwar -
Health Programme invites application from qualified person to fill
the position of Nurses
5 Posts
Programme: Health
Programme: Health
Location: Turkana
County
Reporting to: Health Unit In Charge
Date of issue: 16th
December, 2015
Deadline for Application: 15th January, 2016
Major Duties & Responsibilities:
- Identifies patient care requirements by establishing
personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a
position to understand care requirements.
- Offer nursing care to clients and attend to
patients in the Outpatient Department, offer treatment in In Patient
Department. Guide Home – Based Care providers and volunteers.
- Ensure Anti Natal Clinic mothers are counseled
and tested for HIV, ensure and conduct safe deliveries in the facility,
adherence counseling to clients.
- Establishes a compassionate environment by
providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients,
friends and families.
- Promote patient’s independence by establishing
patient care goals; teaching patients, friends, and family to understand
condition, meditations and self care skills; answering questions.
- Assures quality of care by adhering to
therapeutic standards, measuring health necessary adjustments, following
hospital and nursing division’s philosophies and standards of care set by
state board of nursing, state nurse practice act and other governing
agency regulations.
- Resolves patient problems and needs by
utilizing multi - disciplinary team strategies.
- Maintains safe and clean working environment
by complying with procedures, rules and regulations calling for assistance
from health care support personnel.
- Protects patients and employees by adhering to
infections and protocols, medication administration and storage
procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
- Documents patient care services by charting in
patient and department records.
- Maintains nursing supplies inventory by
checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies,
placing and expediting orders for supplies, verifying receipt of supplies,
using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
Qualifications, Attributes and Other
Requirements Specific to the Role
- Diploma in Nursing from Kenya Medical Training
College or any other recognized institution or its equivalent, Valid
license from the Nursing council of Kenya
- 1 – 2 years’ experience from a busy health
unit.
- Knowledge of current HIV Management/CCC
experience will be an added advantage.
Job Title: Registered Clinical Officer (RCO)
1 Post
Programme: Health
Location: Turkana
County
Reporting to: Health
unit incharge
Date of issue: 16th
December, 2015
Closing Date: 15th
January, 2016
Major Duties & Responsibilities:
- Patient care and management at OPD/IPD;
- Management of opportunistic infections;
- Staging of HIV clients for ART and initiating
clients on ART;
- Managing complication of ART;
- Provision of PMTCT services;
- Providing monitoring to HIV-positive clients;
- Ordering investigation and interpretation of
results;
- Keeping of complete and up to date clients
records and Preparation of monthly reports
- Facilitate CMEs in the facility;
- Carrying out preventive health care of
patients;
- Ensure availability of required equipments and
ensuring continuity in the supply of consumable in the clinic;
- Any other duties and responsibilities as may
be directed by supervisor.
Qualifications, Competencies and
Attributes
- Diploma in clinical medicine and surgery from
KMTC or any other regonized institution
- Registered by Kenya clinical officers council
- Possession of valid practising lincence from
Clinical officers Council
- Training in any other HIV prevention intervention
is an added advantage
- At least 1 year experience in HIV programme
area/CCC.
Interested and qualified candidates
should submit their detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV), certificates and
testimonials together with names and addresses of three referees, day time
telephone to the address below;-
Human Resource Officer,
Caritas Lodwar,
P.O. Box 101 – 30500,
Lodwar
and/Or Email: recruit@dol.or.ke
Deadline for receiving applications will be 15th January, 2016.
Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Diocese of Lodwar (DOL) has a Code of Conduct and a Child Protection Policy to ensure the maximum protection of Diocesan Staff and Children from abuse and exploitation. Any candidate offered a job with DOL will be expected to sign the Diocesan Child Protection policy and Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment and conduct themselves in accordance with the provision of these two documents.
