Background information about the job or company (e.g., role context, company overview)

"Tenwek Hospital is a Christian community committed to excellence in compassionate healthcare, spiritual ministry, and training for service to the glory of God." The hospital was founded in 1937 by missionaries from World Gospel Mission and has since grown to be a leading teaching and referral hospital in the region and one...

Responsibilities or duties

Clinical Services

• Diagnose and manage patients with acute and chronic kidney diseases.
• Conduct specialist nephrology outpatient clinics.
• Provide inpatient nephrology consultations across all hospital departments.
• Manage patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), acute kidney injury (AKI), nephrotic syndrome, glomerular diseases, hypertension, electrolyte disorders, and inherited renal diseases.
• Develop individualized patient treatment plans.
• Interpret laboratory and imaging investigations relevant to renal diseases.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary care for renal patients.
• Participate in emergency nephrology services and on-call duties.

Dialysis Services

• Oversee haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis services.
• Assess and prepare patients for renal replacement therapy.
• Monitor dialysis adequacy and patient outcomes.
• Manage dialysis-related complications.
• Develop dialysis treatment protocols.
• Ensure quality assurance within dialysis services.
• Collaborate in procurement and maintenance planning for dialysis equipment.

Kidney Transplant Services

• Assess patients for kidney transplant eligibility.
• Participate in transplant evaluation clinics.
• Manage pre-transplant and post-transplant care.
• Monitor immunosuppressive therapy.
• Coordinate with transplant surgeons and multidisciplinary transplant teams.

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

• Promote evidence-based nephrology practice.
• Participate in clinical audits.
• Investigate adverse clinical events.
• Implement quality improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with patient safety standards.
• Develop renal care pathways and clinical protocols.

Teaching and Mentorship

• Train medical officers, interns, residents, and students.
• Conduct Continuing Medical Education (CME) sessions.
• Mentor junior clinicians.
• Support competency development within the renal unit.

Research and Innovation

• Participate in clinical research.
• Publish scientific work where applicable.
• Promote evidence-based clinical practice.
• Introduce innovations that improve renal care services.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

Requirements

• Master of Medicine in Nephrology or equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council;
• Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery (MBChB.) degree or its equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council;
• Registration with the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council - KMPDC).
• Valid practicing license from Kenya Medical Practitioners
• Master of Medicine in Neuro Surgery or equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council;

• Diagnose and manage patients with acute and chronic kidney diseases.
• Conduct specialist nephrology outpatient clinics.
• Provide inpatient nephrology consultations across all hospital departments.
• Manage patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), acute kidney injury (AKI), nephrotic syndrome, glomerular diseases, hypertension, electrolyte disorders, and inherited renal diseases.
• Develop individualized patient treatment plans.
• Interpret laboratory and imaging investigations relevant to renal diseases.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary care for renal patients.
• Participate in emergency nephrology services and on-call duties.
• Oversee haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis services.
• Assess and prepare patients for renal replacement therapy.
• Monitor dialysis adequacy and patient outcomes.
• Manage dialysis-related complications.
• Develop dialysis treatment protocols.
• Ensure quality assurance within dialysis services.
• Collaborate in procurement and maintenance planning for dialysis equipment.
• Assess patients for kidney transplant eligibility.
• Participate in transplant evaluation clinics.
• Manage pre-transplant and post-transplant care.
• Monitor immunosuppressive therapy.
• Coordinate with transplant surgeons and multidisciplinary transplant teams.
• Promote evidence-based nephrology practice.
• Participate in clinical audits.
• Investigate adverse clinical events.
• Implement quality improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with patient safety standards.
• Develop renal care pathways and clinical protocols.
• Train medical officers, interns, residents, and students.
• Conduct Continuing Medical Education (CME) sessions.
• Mentor junior clinicians.
• Support competency development within the renal unit.
• Participate in clinical research.
• Publish scientific work where applicable.
• Promote evidence-based clinical practice.
• Introduce innovations that improve renal care services.

• Master of Medicine in Nephrology or equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council;
• Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery (MBChB.) degree or its equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council;
• Registration with the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council - KMPDC).
• Valid practicing license from Kenya Medical Practitioners
• Master of Medicine in Neuro Surgery or equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council;