Nutrition and Dietetics Technician IV at County Government of Busia

Duties and responsibilities at this level will include

Assessing community nutrition needs, following up on discharge cases from hospital, screening for deficiency disease and chronic illnesses related to nutrition in a community setting and referring them to various existing programs, collecting data on nutrition and dietetics, promoting baby friendly community initiatives, conducting community growth  monitoring and promotion activities assisting in community interventions on diet and lifestyle disease prevention and control , promoting optimal infant and young child feeding programs, assisting in running outpatient supplementary feeding programs and outpatients therapeutic feeding programs, following up and cancelling of patient in home based disease management and carrying out nutrition health education

Requirements for this appointment

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have

• Certificate in community nutrition or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution and
• Registration by the council of the institute of nutritionist and dietetics (CIND)

Terms of service: Contract.