Job Description
JOB GROUP CPSB 09/‘K’
Basic Salary: Kshs. 38,270 x 1,470 – 39,740 x 1,520 – 41,260 x 1,710 – 42,970 x 1,920 – 44,890 x 2000 – 46,890
x 2,110 – 49,000 x 2,170 – 51, 170 pm.
Terms of Service: Permanent and Pensionable
This is the entry and training grade for this cadre.
Duties and responsibilities at this level will include:
i. Preparing and implementing therapeutic diets for outpatients and inpatients;
ii. Providing guidelines on diets for existing and emerging diseases for hospital use and home-based
care;
iii. treating and counseling patients using specialised dietetic nutritionally modified products;
iv. implementing the nutrition and dietetic process including screening;
v. assessing, formulating and implementing nutrition interventions and evaluating outcomes;
vi. providing nutrition support in patient management in healthcare facilities;
vii. developing and disseminating nutrition behavior change;
viii. implementing nutrition health programmes; and
ix. Collecting and compiling nutrition data.
Requirements for Appointment
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: -
i. Bachelor Degree in any of the following disciplines: Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics, Dietetics/Clinical
Nutrition, Community Nutrition, Food Science, Home Economics or its equivalent qualification from a
recognized Institution;
ii. Registration by the Council of the Institute of Nutritionists and Dieticians (CIND)
iii. Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution.