Veterinary Officers

Job title: Veterinary Officers

Job Type: Full Time Qualification: BA/BSc/HND

Experience

• Location: Nairobi

• Job Field: Medical / Healthcare

• Job Specification This is the entry and training grade for this cadre. An officer at this level will work under the guidance and supervision of a Senior Officer and may be deployed in any of the following functional areas:

• Registration and Licensing Duties and responsibilities will entail:

• Issuing registration certificates and practicing licenses to practitioners

• Assessing and verifying indexing, internship, registration, and licensing application forms for registration and licensing by the Board

• Ensuring accuracy of indexing, internship, registration, and licensing data for approval

• Ascertaining the required minimum qualifications for indexing and registration

• Compiling and processing data on licensing applications

• Assisting in processing of registration certificates and practicing licenses of Veterinary surgeons and Veterinary Paraprofessionals

• Ascertaining a register of applicants for indexing, internship and registration

• Attending to and processing enquiries on registration and licensing of veterinary practices

• Ascertaining correctness of registers of all licensed veterinary service delivery facilities

• Ensuring document management including e-filing

• Supervising and guiding officers working under him/her

• Veterinary Research and Standards Duties and responsibilities will entail:

• Developing standards for inspection of institutions involved in veterinary and animal health training

• Developing minimum requirements for entry into the various animal health courses

• Developing curriculum standards for training in animal health

• Developing guidelines for pre-registration examinations

• Developing telemedicine guidelines for practice by Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Paraprofessionals

• Developing guidelines for consultant colleges

• Developing CPD guidelines

• Developing standards and policies to support the government on matters related to business, practice and employment of veterinary surgeons and veterinary paraprofessionals

• Developing standards for inspection of veterinary service delivery facilities

• Formulating and disseminating the Code of Ethics to all registered persons

• Assessing data from desktop research on matters relating to animal health & welfare and public health and advising the Board on the best practices in regulation

• Developing guidelines for veterinary internship

• Developing standards for registration, licensing and regulation of institutions and organizations involved in animal welfare

• Education and Training Duties and responsibilities will entail:

• Verifying processed CPD applications, waiver requests, and registered and unregistered CPD activities

• Responding to day-to-day enquiries on education and training

• Maintaining a register of CPD applications, and waivers

• Reviewing and processing pre-registration examinations applications

• Conducting pre-registration examination for veterinary surgeons and veterinary paraprofessionals

• Verifying submitted internship documents

• Assessing internship logbooks upon completion for registration purposes

• Undertaking document management including e-filing

• Analyzing curricula for training in veterinary and animal health against the set standards

• Assessing from time-to-time the human resource and training programs necessary to guarantee sound and efficient veterinary service delivery

• Conducting examination for foreign nationals seeking temporary registration and preparing reports to the relevant committee

• Assessing the capacity of veterinary and Animal Health Institutions for registration

• Processing pre-registration examination applications for veterinary surgeons and veterinary paraprofessionals

• Monitoring veterinary and animal health graduates on internship

• Supervising continuous professional development (CPD) for Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary paraprofessionals

• Veterinary Technologies Duties and responsibilities will entail:

• Receiving application forms from persons or institutions seeking to deploy veterinary technologies and ascertaining the attachments for processing

• Capturing data from persons or institutions applying to deploy veterinary technologies

• Processing enquiries on deployment of veterinary technologies in Kenya

• Assisting in sensitization on the use of telemedicine guidelines

• Maintaining a register of applicants seeking to deploy veterinary technologies in Kenya

• Assisting in supervising veterinary technologies deployed for practice in Kenya by Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary paraprofessionals

• Compliance Duties and responsibilities will entail:

• Conducting inspection of new and existing facilities offering veterinary services and including veterinary clinics, hospitals, laboratories, ambulatory, animal welfare organizations

• Conducting inspection of veterinary and animal health training institutions

• Enforcing veterinary standards on animal welfare

• Sensitizing Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Paraprofessionals on the Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Paraprofessionals (VSVP) Act, Regulations & Code of Ethics

• Enforcing the reporting of notifiable diseases by practitioners

• Investigating cases of professional misconduct and malpractices

• Assisting in legal proceedings against those violating the VSVP Act and Regulations

• Participating in Board publicity activities such as agricultural shows, field days, and exhibitions

• Conducting data mining, intelligence gathering and surveillance to support enforcement of the VSVP Act and Regulations

• Mining the data to support the legal action against the offenders of the VSVP Act

• Market Surveillance Duties and responsibilities will entail:

• Enforcing veterinary standards in animal welfare

• Instituting legal proceedings against those violating the Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Paraprofessionals Act and Regulations; and closing down illegal veterinary practices

• Developing individual and joint inspection checklists

• Identifying people and early warning signs of unlawful conduct to prevent malpractices

• Sensitizing the public on Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Paraprofessionals (VSVP) Act, Regulations & Code of Ethics

• Collecting surveillance data for report generation

• Addressing complaints related to market surveillance activities

• Gathering and evaluating market intelligence information

• Carrying out post market surveillance on the use of veterinary medicines and quality of veterinary services provided by licensed practices and facilities; and

• Analyzing market intelligence data

• Participating in the enforcement of compliance with the Veterinary Code of Ethics

• Utilizing the data from intelligence gathering and surveillance to support enforcement of the VSVP Act and Regulations

• Deploying the market surveillance data to support the location, inspection and closing down of premises or ambulatory clinics operating contrary to the practices prescribed under the VSVP Act

• Utilizing the analyzed data to support processing of the legal actions against the offenders of the VSVP Act

• Supporting the investigations into cases of professionals’ misconduct and malpractice

• Processing research data for market surveillance relating to animal health & welfare and public health

• Participating in development and implementation of market surveillance procedures and compiling market surveillance reports

• Complaints and Grievances Section Duties and responsibilities will entail:

• Reviewing filed complaints from the public on regulatory matters

• Compiling data on the complaints received

• Processing day-to-day enquiries on complaints handling mechanisms

• Sensitizing the public on the complaints handling procedures and reporting mechanisms

• Conducting investigations on complaints