Community Nurse Specialist (Asylum and Refugee)

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Community Nurse Specialist (Asylum and Refugee), London

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Client:

Guy\’s and St Thomas\’ NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

5

Posted:

29.06.2025

Expiry Date:

13.08.2025

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Job Description:

Job overview

The Health Inclusion Team (HIT) works across Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham to provide a multidisciplinary service for clients who are marginalized and have difficulty accessing primary and secondary care services ( refugees and asylum seekers, homeless clients, and clients with addictions). The nurses have a broad range of advanced clinical skills and work autonomously in clinics in NHS/ non-NHS sites, therefore need to be to be competent and safe in their clinical decision-making.

We are recruiting a Band 6 Community Nurse Specialist to join the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Service (RASS) to work with people who are seeking asylum living in Home Office Initial Accommodation. The team is a multidisciplinary offering health assessments, minor aliment treatments, responding to immediate needs, linking into secondary care and promoting wellbeing through engagement with activities. The client group have all experienced trauma, many have complex health and social care needs. You must have understanding of not only of the client groups health needs, but also be confident when managing risk and safeguarding. You will be working alongside an experienced inclusion health team, including GPs, AHP\’s and nurse practitioners, using the principles of trauma informed care. This is an opportunity to consolidate your assessment skills and develop your understanding and knowledge of this client group.

Closing date: 7th July 2025

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, the focus will be offering comprehensive health assessments, as well as triaging patients presenting with both physical and psychological needs. The post holder will work with those with minor ailments and long-term conditions, including the taking and interpreting blood results, and promoting public health initiatives, for example vaccinations campaigns.

• Comprehensive health assessments
• Health screening ( TB, blood borne virus screening, sexual health screening, baseline routine blood tests)
• Chronic disease management
• Wound care
• Promoting vaccination up take
• Case management of complex clients
• Referral to other services as appropriate
• Promotion of wellbeing activities
• Participation in audits

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will run health screening clinics independently and jointly with other team members. All nurses within the team will at times work across the RASS teams, offering clinics in other types of Home Office accommodation, day centres and the specialist GP service for refugees with no recourse to public funds.

Please see the Job description for full details.

Person specification

Trust Values

Skills

• Able to take blood.
• Computer literate. Internet, email, Excel spreadsheet, Word, patient systems
• Ability to write detailed reports, patient records and other documents that exhibit fluency and accuracy
• Previous experience of running audits with direct relevance to this clinical area (mentions this in application)

Experience

• Significant experience of working within community settings
• Teaching experience informal and formal
• Experience of providing complex packages of care, which involve other agencies
• Experience of working with vulnerable adults – eg including the homeless/asylum seekers/refugees cohort.
• Considerable experience of working with marginalised health setting
• Experience of working in partnership with voluntary / statutory agencies within Service Level/ Partnership Agreements
• Experience of using PGDs

Qualifications

• BSc/1st degree (health related) in Nursing or equivalent qualification/training and experience
• Mentorship and / or teaching certificate
• Evidence of professional development
• Masters Level training/education relevant to the post.
• Advanced Nursing Competencies – Management of Minor Ailments and assessment

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

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