Duties and Responsibilities This will be the entry grade into this cadre. Duties and responsibilities at this level will include: preparing and implementing therapeutic diets for outpatients and inpatients; providing guidelines on therapeutic diets for existing and emerging diseases for hospital use and home based care and other institutions; treating and counselling patients using specialized dietetic nutritionally modified products; implementing the nutrition and dietetic process including screening; assessing, formulating and implementing nutrition interventions and evaluating outcomes; providing nutrition support in patient management in health care facilities; developing and disseminating nutrition behavior change communication, information, education, and communication materials; implementing nutrition health programmes; and collecting and compiling nutrition and dietetic data. Requirements for Appointments For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: - Bachelor’s Degree in any of the following disciplines: Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics, Dietetics/Clinical Nutrition, Food Science and Nutrition or Home Economics from a recognized institution; Registration by the Council of the Institute of Nutritionists and Dieticians (CIND); and Certificate in Computer Application Skills fromm a recognized institution. go to method of application »