# Legal Officer Job Tenwek Hospital Nairobi, Kenya

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Company: Tenwek Hospital Nairobi, Kenya

Category: Legal

Location: Kenya

Work type: Full-time

Work arrangement: On-site

Published: 2026-08-05

Expires: 2026-09-19

## Job Description

### Role Purpose

- The Legal Officer will provide in-house legal advisory, compliance oversight, and risk mitigation support to AGC Tenwek Hospital. The role is critical in managing medical-legal exposure, labour relations matters, data protection complia

### Key Responsibilities

Medical-Legal & Clinical Risk Support

- Provide legal advice on medical negligence claims, patient complaints, and medico-legal exposure.

- Review and advise on incident reports, adverse event investigations, and medico-legal documentation.

- Coordinate with insurers, external advocates, and clinical leadership on claims management and litigation strategy.

- Support development and review of clinical consent frameworks, patient rights policies, and medico-legal SOPs.

Labour & Employment Relations

- Advise HR on disciplinary cases, grievances, terminations, suspensions, and appeals in line with the Employment Act, CBA provisions, and hospital policies.

- Review and clear disciplinary investigation reports and recommendations before implementation.

- Support management in labour disputes, union engagements, conciliations, and court cases (currently and future).

- Ensure alignment of HR practices with labour laws, CBAs, and best industrial relations standards.

Contract Review & Legal Documentation

- Review, draft, and vet contracts, MOUs, SLAs, consultancy agreements, supplier contracts, and partnership agreements.

- Ensure contracts adequately protect the Hospital from legal, financial, and reputational risks.

- Maintain a central legal contracts register with key terms, expiry dates, and risk flags.

- Advise departments on contract interpretation and enforcement.

Litigation & External Counsel Management

- Coordinate all litigation matters involving the Hospital (medical, labour, commercial, data protection).

- Liaise with external advocates, insurers, regulators, and courts.

- Track legal cases, costs, timelines, and outcomes; prepare periodic litigation status reports for management.

- Support out-of-court settlements where appropriate and cost-effective.

Data Protection & Regulatory Compliance

- Support compliance with the Data Protection Act, 2019, including staff and patient data handling.

- Advise on data breaches, investigations, and mitigation actions.

- Support compliance with healthcare regulatory bodies and statutory requirements applicable to a Level 6 Teaching & Referral Hospital.

Governance, Ethics & Advisory

- Provide legal advisory support to Management, Committees, and the Board through the Director HR & Admin.

- Support policy development, review, and interpretation from a legal compliance perspective.

- Promote ethical conduct, risk awareness, and legal compliance culture across the Hospital.

Credit Control & Finance Legal Support

- Support the Finance Unit on credit control legal matters, debt recovery processes, and enforcement.

- Review legal aspects of credit agreements, guarantees, and recovery actions.

- Advise on legal risk exposure related to non-performing accounts and contracts.

Requirements

- Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from a recognized university

- Advocate of the High Court of Kenya

- Valid practicing certificate

- Minimum 4-6 years post-admission experience, preferably:In healthcare, insurance, labour law, or corporate legal practice

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