Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Dental Officer

Job Purpose
Dental Officers are responsible to a Dental Specialist in providing diagnostic, curative, preventive and rehabilitative dental services.

Duties and Responsibilities
• Provide leadership to service delivery, coordinate work schedules and prepare
• medical reports.
• Ensure smooth running of the delivery services by ensuring the ensuring the
• equipment is in good working condition.
• Prepare medical legal reports for all patients as may be required by police, legal
• professionals, and insurance
• Represent the department in courts of law on matter arising from the services delivery
• Seeking to establish strategic partnership and collaboration with stakeholders in
• support of improvement, in service delivery in the department.
• Creating initiative to create innovations aimed at improving service delivery as the
• head of innovation team
• Carrying out clinical audits to identify the points of weakness and give
• recommendations on improvements.
• Attending to our patients referred to dental from public health facilities.
• Carry out diagnosis of patients.
• Investigate the patients and interpretation of the interpretation reports
• Prescribing treatment modalities.
• Carrying out procedures.
• Managing the inpatients in conjunction with specialists
• Teaching interns doctors and students from various institutions.
• Providing leadership in the departmental procedures to supporting staff, nursing and technical staff
• Ensuring proper data entry in the diary work registers.
• Carrying out research in collaboration with the researchers on various forms of
• treatment and new emerging techniques of management of patients

Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor of Dental Surgery (DS) degree or equivalent qualification from an institution
• recognized by the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council.
• Proof of completion of a one (1) year internship
• Registration Certificate by the Medical Practitioners & Dentist Council.
• Valid practicing license from Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council.
• Professional Indemnity Cover.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Interested applicants who meet the requirements are requested to download and fill the application form available on KNH Website www.knh.or.ke . The application form together with a
detailed C.V listing the qualifications, experience, current responsibilities, copies of testimonials and certificates must be submitted on or before 16th May 2022 to the address below:-
The Chief Executive Officer
Kenyatta National Hospital
P.O Box 20723-00202
NAIROBI
“Kenyatta National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer and qualified candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply”.
NB:
• Kenyatta National Hospital DOES NOT charge ANY FEES for application
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Successful candidate will be required to submit the document listed below to comply with the
requirements of Chapter Six (6) of the Constitution of Kenya,2010: -
• A certificate of good conduct from the National Police Service
• EACC Clearance
• Credit Reference Bureau Clearance
• HELB Compliance
• KRA Tax Compliance
“ANY FORM OF CANVASSING WILL LEAD TO AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION”

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