Duties and Responsibilities
- Overseeing development, implementation
and review of policies, strategies, legislations, guidelines, frameworks,
norms, tools, regulations, plans and standards for curative and nursing
services;
- Spearheading preparation and provision of
reports, advisories and other information related to curative and nursing
services;
- Overseeing capacity building for
ministries, departments, counties and other government agencies (MDCAs) on
curative and nursing services;
- Facilitating technical support to
ministries, departments, counties and other government agencies (MDCAs) on
curative and nursing services;
- Setting performance targets with staff in
the directorate;
- Facilitating curative and nursing
services health surveys and monitoring health trends in collaboration with
relevant stakeholders;
- Overseeing the design, planning and
implementation health projects and programmes for curative and nursing
services;
- Facilitating monitoring and evaluation of
health projects and programmes for curative and nursing services;
- Creating an enabling environment for
provision of curative and nursing services by public, private and
faith-based providers;
- Facilitating the establishment of
linkages and collaboration with relevant stakeholders for curative and
nursing services;
- Providing lead in the determination of
curative and nursing services data variables in the integrated digital
healthcare system for curative and nursing services;
- Coordinating the collaboration with the
relevant directorate to analyze, prepare and disseminate national
health-related data, reports and other knowledge information for curative
and nursing services; Commissioning of health research and innovation
and maintain a repository for curative and nursing services in
collaboration with the relevant directorate;
- Overseeing resource mobilization for
curative and nursing services;
- Overseeing the process of determining the
specifications for curative and nursing services health-related
infrastructure, health products and technologies;
- Overseeing the provision of forensic
services in the country in collaboration with relevant agencies and
directorates;
- Rendering advice on the designing and
development of regional centers of excellence for specialized clinical
services to improve care and promote medical tourism;
- Overseeing the development,
implementation and reviewing of the Health Tourism Framework for curative
and nursing services;
- Providing guidance in collaboration with
the relevant directorate to set criteria for the classification of health
facilities categorization for curative and nursing services;
- Spearheading Business Process
Re-engineering in the directorate;
- Overseeing the development and
implantation of the directorate’s annual work plans, budgets and
performance contract;
- Ensuring compliance with good governance
and;
- Managing and developing staff in the
directorate
For appointment to this grade,
an officer must have:-
- Served for a minimum period of fifteen
(15) years, three (3) of which must have been at the grade of Deputy
Director, Medical Services, CSG ‘6’ and above or in a comparable and
relevant position in the wider Public Service;
- A Bachelors Degree in any of the
following disciplines : Medicine and Surgery, Dental Surgery, Clinical
Medicine/Higher National Diploma in Clinical Medicine, Nursing,
Ophthalmology and Cataract Surgery, Oral Health, Dental Technology,
Radiography, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language,
Forensic Entomology, Forensic Anthropology, Prosthetics and Orthotics,
Health, or equivalent qualification from a university recognized in
Kenya;
- A Masters Degree in any of the following
disciplines: Medicine, Anesthesia, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dermatology,
Ear, Nose and Throat, Otorhinolaryngology, General Surgery, Geriatrics,
Internal Medicine, Neurosurgery, Occupational Medicine, Ophthalmology,
Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, Palliative Medicine, Pathology,
Forensic Medicine, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Radiology,
Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics Dentistry, Periodontology, Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery, Prosthodontics, Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology,
Dental Anesthesia, Forensic Odontology, Restorative Dentistry,
Orthodontics, Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Systems Management,
Global Health or equivalent qualification from a university
recognized in Kenya;
- Registration and licensing by a
recognized regulatory body as applicable;
- Membership to a relevant professional
body (where applicable;
- Demonstrated managerial, administrative
and professional competencies in work performance and results; and
- Exhibited a thorough understanding of
national goals, policies, objectives and ability to relate them to proper
management of curative and nursing services
How To Apply
