VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Organization: Catholic Archdiocese of Lilongwe – St. Denis Health Centre

Location: TA Mangwazu, Kasungu, Malawi

Application Email: recruitment@lilongwearchdiocese.org

Deadline: Thursday, 4th June 2026

About the Facility

St. Denis Health Centre under the Archdiocese of Lilongwe is a mission facility committed to providing high-quality healthcare services in line with Christian values. It is located in TA Mangwazu in Kasungu.

Available Positions

1. Chief Clinical Technician

Grade: I

Reporting to: Facility In-Charge

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise the clinical and paramedical personnel at the Health Centre
• Diagnosing patients
• Prescribing treatment
• Conducting ward rounds of admitted patients to review possible discharges and treatment
• Attending to referral cases from outpatients department
• Performing minor surgical operations and attending to theatre emergencies

Qualifications and Experience:

• Degree in Clinical Medicine from a reputable training institution
• Registered with the Medical Council of Malawi

2. Senior Clinical Technician

Grade: J

Reporting to: Chief Clinical Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conducting ward rounds of admitted patients to review possible discharges and treatment
• Attending to referral cases from outpatients department
• Performing normal surgical operations and attending to theatre emergencies
• Planning and preparing sound programmes for Health Centres and monitoring and evaluating implementation activities
• Conducting refresher courses for junior staff
• Ensuring correct and complete recording of data in relevant HMIS registers and instruments
• Ensuring timely processing of data and dissemination to all relevant stakeholders
• Performing routine monitoring of health indicators and using information in planning and management of health services
• Supervising clinical paramedical staff

Qualifications and Experience:

• Diploma in Clinical Medicine from a reputable training institution
• Should have at least four years working experience
• Registration with the Medical Council of Malawi

3. Community Health Nurse Midwife Technician

Grade: J

Reporting to: Chief Clinical Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Advising mothers on Maternal and Child health issues and teaching parents on family planning methods
• Conducting mobile clinic services to the community and schools on health issues
• Assessing community health needs related to sanitation, immunization, water, income generating activities, nutrition and home care
• Providing Anti-natal, Under-five, post-natal, child spacing and nutrition clinics
• Providing nursing care related to needs of the community
• Ensuring proper and complete recording of data in relevant registers and instruments following HMIS guidelines
• Ensuring timely and adequate analysis of information and dissemination to all relevant stakeholders
• Routinely monitoring relevant indicators using HMIS tools and guidelines
• Providing training and feedback to subordinate personnel for proper data collection, analysis and use

Qualifications and Experience:

• Diploma in Community Nursing
• Three years experience
• Registration with the Nurses Council of Malawi

4. Assistant Accountant

Grade: K

Reporting to: Facility In-Charge

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Analyzing operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to project future revenues and expenses
• Developing, implementing, modifying, and documenting recordkeeping and accounting systems
• Developing, maintaining, and analyzing budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs
• Establishing tables of accounts and assigning entries to proper accounts
• Preparing, examining, or analyzing accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports
• Interpreting financial policies on accounts
• Supervising all accounts staff including health centres
• Controlling day to day operations of main accounts
• Reporting to management regarding the finances of the health centre

Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum of Diploma in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in accounting
• Registered member of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in Malawi (ICAM)
• Proficiency in accounting software and Microsoft Office applications

5. Clinical Technician (Anaesthesia)

Grade: K

Reporting to: Chief Clinical Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Making pre-operative assessment of patients
• Ordering special tests for medication of patients before administering
• Conducting anaesthesia on patients
• Reporting condition changes of a patient to surgeon or relevant attendant
• Managing fluid, electrolytes and acid/base disturbances
• Shock management
• Providing emergency anaesthesia in life saving surgeries
• Training juniors in Anaesthesia procedures and in how to resuscitate patients and babies
• Ensuring correct anaesthesia complete recording of data in relevant HMIS registers and instruments
• Ensuring timely processing of data and dissemination to all relevant stakeholders
• Performing routine monitoring of health indicators and using data in planning and management of health services

Qualifications and Experience:

• Diploma in Clinical Medicine from a recognised institution with a minimum of three years' working in a primary health care setting
• Registered with the Medical Council of Malawi (MCM) with a valid practising licence

6. Nurse Midwife Technician

Grade: K

Reporting to: Facility In-Charge

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Providing nursing services to patients
• Preparing health tips and talks to the patients
• Supervising cleanliness of the wards
• Ordering drugs for the patients from the pharmacy
• Selecting very sick patients requiring special attention
• Preparing patients before going to the theatre for C/Section
• Supervising the caring of patients to and from the theatre
• Recording patients' data in relevant registers/charts
• Analyzing data and submitting periodic reports to the Senior Clinical Technician
• Accompanying Clinical Officers during ward rounds, clinics and procedures
• Compiling handover notes to be submitted to the next nurse on duty
• Attending morning reports
• Compiling death reports
• Assisting mothers (patients) on Ante Natal Clinic
• ART administration
• Attending to mothers on delivery at Labour ward
• Carrying out postnatal checkups at Labour ward
• Attending to sick babies in nursery room
• Receiving and resuscitating babies after C/Section

Qualifications and Experience:

• Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery
• At least three years experience
• Registered with the Nurses and Midwives Council

7. Pharmacy Assistant

Grade: L

Reporting to: Chief Clinical Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Checking drug stocks and making orders from the store
• Cleaning of pharmacy floors, wiping benches and dusting stock containers
• Prepackaging drugs ready for dispensing
• Receiving prescriptions from out and in-patient and checking dosage and prescription particulars
• Issuing required medicine to patients and giving instructions on how to use and store
• Ensuring correct drug storage
• Monitoring drugs using HMIS tools and guidelines and report to the designated supervisor
• Management of pharmaceutical supplies for Hospital wards and departments

Qualification and Experience:

• Certificate in Pharmacy registrable in Malawi

8. Laboratory Assistant

Grade: L

Reporting to: Chief Clinical Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Sample processing
• Operating equipment (bench work)
• Checking results
• Chemical and reagent inventory management

Qualification and Experience:

• Certificate in Biomedical Science / Laboratory Technician
• Registration with the Medical Council of Malawi

9. Senior Home Craft Worker

Grade: L

Reporting to: Community Health Nurse Midwife Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Weigh under five children
• Conduct anthropometric assessments
• Identify sick or malnourished or underweight individuals

Qualification and Experience:

• Certificate or Diploma in Nutrition, Community Home Craft Management
• Should have at least six years' experience

10. Home Craft Worker

Grade: M

Reporting to: Senior Home Craft Worker

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinating all Maternal Child Health programs
• Serving patients by visiting homes, determining patient and family needs, developing health care plans, providing nursing and treatments
• Referring patients with social and emotional problems to other community agencies
• Monitoring the outreach and static clinics
• Supervising and monitoring Family planning and Ante Natal Care services
• Supervising Nutrition Rehabilitation Unit section
• Coordinating community health care teams

Qualification and Experience:

• Certificate in Food and Nutrition from a recognized institution with 3 years experience

11. Senior Clerical Officer

Grade: L

Reporting to: Facility In-Charge

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Sorting patient's files according to the Ward they are coming from (Gynaecology, Post Normal and Post Abnormal Wards)
• Putting the files in their shelves
• Pulling out files from the shelf in readiness for the clinic after receiving an appointment list
• Collection of data from all Wards
• Compiling monthly in-patient return and sending to headquarters
• Collection of data from private doctors and dispensaries within the hospital
• Compiling monthly out-patient returns from all private hospitals and dispensaries
• Recording data in relevant registers and instruments following HMIS guidelines
• Compilation of monthly data and submission to the designated supervisor
• Coordinating procurement and distribution of health passports through revolving fund

12. Accounts Assistant

Grade: M

Reporting to: Assistant Accountant

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Issuing of receipts and preparing cheques
• Checking authorization and issuing of salary cheques
• Balancing and updating salaries ledger
• Recording receipts and cheques in cash books
• Preparing and recording of payment vouchers
• Writing of remittance payment vouchers and cheques
• Preparing invoices and cash controls

Qualification and Experience:

• Minimum of Certificate in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in accounting
• Registered member of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in Malawi (ICAM)
• Proficiency in accounting software and Microsoft Office applications

How to Apply

Suitably qualified candidates should submit a cover letter, detailed curriculum vitae (CV) with three traceable referees not later than Thursday, 4th June 2026 by emailing to:

The Human Resources Manager

Archdiocese of Lilongwe

Email: recruitment@lilongwearchdiocese.org

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.