The Machakos County Public Service Board is hiring over 300 healthcare professionals in a massive recruitment drive by the government. Key open roles include Medical Officers, Medical Specialists, Registered Nurses, Clinical Officers, and Technologists. All applications must be submitted by July 15, 2026, at 5:00 P.M.
1. Registered Nurse III (156 open positions)
Responsibilities: Assessing, planning, implementing nursing interventions and evaluating patient’s outcomes. Providing appropriate healthcare service including Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI), immunization, PMTCT, ante-natal care and delivery, providing health Education and counselling to patients/clients and community on identified health needs…
2. Support Staff II (24 positions)
Responsibilities: Maintaining cleanliness, opening/closing rooms, arranging furniture, and performing minor repairs. Providing operational assistance. Any other duty assigned by supervisor..
3. Radiographer III (15 positions)
Responsibilities: Providing radiographic services to the patients. Processing, verifying and maintaining information relating to patients. Ordering. Maintaining records of radiographic and photographic supplies….
4. Health Records and Information Management Assistant III (10 positions)
Responsibilities: Receiving and registering patients at hospital reception. Booking appointment for patients to specialty and consultants’ clinics. Storing and retrieving medical records and documents. Preparing clinics capturing data from service points. Maintaining record safely and confidentially. Directing patients to relevant clinics.
5. Medical Laboratory Technologist III (10 positions)
Responsibilities: Decontaminating working benches. Receiving and scrutinizing laboratory requisition forms and specimens. Preparing clients for collection of specimens. Receiving, collecting, labelling and registering of specimens. Disaggregating specimens for processing and analyses. Preparing reagents. Examining specimens…
6. Medical Engineering Technologists III (10 positions)
Responsibilities: Undertaking preventive maintenance and repairs of medical/hospital equipment’s, plants instruments and furniture. Requisitioning for spare parts and consumables. Taking inventory of medical/hospital equipment’s, furniture and plants.. Collecting information for research…
7. Nutrition And Dietetics Technologist III (10 positions)
Responsibilities: Implementing nutrition programmes. Providing nutrition services in health care facilities. Conducting nutrition assessments. Collecting and compiling nutrition data. Counselling of patients with specific nutritional needs. Monitoring preparation of therapeutic feeds.
8. Community Health Assistant III (10 positions)
Responsibilities: Visiting homes to determine health situations and dialogue with Household members; identifying and sensitizing communities on health interventions. Identifying common ailments and minor injuries at community level. Collecting health data at household level for analysis…
9. Registered Clinical Officer II (8 positions)
Responsibilities: Taking history, examining, diagnosing, ordering laboratory imaging investigations. Interpreting laboratory and imaging results. Treating patients’ common ailments at outpatient or inpatients health facility. Providing community health care services in liaison with other health workers…
10. Medical Social Worker III (8 positions)
Responsibilities: Addressing the psychosocial effects as related to patients’ diagnosis, prognosis and future resettlement. Counselling of patients especially in cases associated with pandemic diseases, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, epilepsy…
11. Community Oral Health Officer III (8 positions)
Responsibilities: Participating in oral health demonstration, exhibitions and giving lectures to community and school. Collecting data for fluoride testing in water samples, analyzing and interpreting results and advising the relevant authorities accordingly. Diagnosis and treatment of common dental conditions. Temporary and permanent dental restorations. Reducing simple fractures of jaws…
12. Cook III (8 positions)
Responsibilities: Preparing of raw food for cooking. Cleanliness of equipment used in production. Maintain hygiene by ensuring cleaning of the kitchen and its surroundings. Setting up and preparing equipment for use in food preparation and production. Alerting the supervisor of any defective equipment…
13. Medical Officer (6 positons)
Responsibilities: Diagnosing, caring and treatment diseases. Performing medical and surgical procedures. Preparing and responding to emergencies and disasters. Participating in management of medicines, medical instruments and equipment. Providing health education. Maintaining medical records, health information and data. Counselling patients and their relatives on diagnoses and bereavement…
14. Assistant Occupational Therapist III (6 positions)
Responsibilities: Assessing And Formulating Patients Treatment Plan. Maintain records and data relating to patients. Collecting data for operational research. Sensitizing the community on occupational therapy issues. Preparing periodic reports
15. Assistant Physiotherapist III (6 positions)
Responsibilities: Providing Physiotherapy services to inpatients and outpatients at an outpatients’ unit/ward/health institution. Assessing patient needs including rehabilitation. Verifying and maintaining information and records relating to patients: screening, assessing and providing therapeutic exercises, manual therapy, electrotherapy and hydrotherapy as per the patient/clients formulated treated plan. Collecting data for operational research…
16. Orthopaedic Trauma Technologist III (5 positions)
Responsibilities: Manipulating and reducing fractures and dislocations. Fixing and removing casts, bandages and traction to and from patient/clients. Correcting Congenital Talipes Equino – Varus (C.T.E.V). Counselling patient on issues regarding orthopaedic trauma. Cleaning and treating simple wounds resulting from orthopaedic trauma. Documenting orthopaedic and trauma case….
17. Pharmaceutical Technologist III (4 positions)
Responsibilities: Dispensing drugs/medicines to patients under supervision of a senior officer. Receiving interpreting and processing prescriptions. Recording prescriptions in a pharmacy unit. Pre-packing, repacking and writing instructions on labels. Counselling patients on usage of drugs in a pharmacy unitMaintaining drug register/books…
18. Orthopaedic Technologist III (3 positions)
Responsibilities: Provision of Orthopaedics Technology Services which entails designing, fabrication, fitting and maintenance of Orthopaedics appliances that are required health institutions. In addition, the Officer is expected to assess patient’s needs, verify and maintain information relating to patients, order and maintain records supplies…
19. Assistant Public Health Officer III (3 positions)
Responsibilities: Mobilizing, sensitizing and advising communities on matters related to environmental health. Referring health cases to relevant health facilities. Carrying out immunization. Identifying environmental health issues at community level. Organizing community health days to advise communities on common public health issues. Collecting and maintaining up to date records of services rendered. Assessing health needs of the community
20. Radiographer I – Sonographer (3 positions)
Responsibilities: Perform retinal imaging (fundoscopy) for study participants according to protocol. Ensure proper patient preparation, positioning and comfort during imaging procedures. Maintain high-quality image acquisition standards and repeat poor-quality images where necessary. Ensure correct labelling, documentation, and secure transfer of retinal images to study systems. Conduct basic quality checks of captured images before upload
21. Medical Specialist I – Radiologist (3 positions)
Responsibilities: Perform high-quality, complex medical imaging procedures (e.g., CT, MRI, mammography, or fluoroscopy).. Prepare and position patients correctly, explain imaging procedures to alleviate anxiety, and monitor physical well-being throughout the scan. Calibrate, operate, and troubleshoot highly specialized radiographic equipment to ensure optimal image quality
22. Medical Specialist I – Psychiatrist (3 positions)
Responsibilities: Conduct comprehensive mental state examinations to diagnose complex conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety disorders. Prescribe and manage psychiatric medications (e.g., antidepressants, antipsychotics, stimulants) to balance brain chemistry. Develop and implement tailored treatment plans which may include psychotherapy, medication, or both…
Finah Nyaboke 
Caleb Matieso