Nursing Officer (Public Health)

Reference: HRM 72/173/01 MoH/RRH

Reports to: Senior Nursing Officer (Public Health)

Qualifications: i. Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from a recognized University or institution. ii. Additional specialized training in Public Health from a recognized institution.

Other

Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Duties and

a) Plans and implements public health nursing activities. b) Provides health promotion, disease prevention and health education services. c) Conducts community health assessments and identifies priority health needs. Page 32 of 91

d) Participates in disease surveillance, outbreak investigation and control. e) Participates in implementation of immunisation and other public health programmes. f) Conducts community mobilisation and sensitisation on priority health issues. g) Collects, analyses and reports public health data. h) Supervises and guides nursing and community health staff. i) Participates in monitoring, evaluation, research and quality improvement activities. j) Prepares and submits public health nursing reports. k) Performs any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.