Community Nurse Specialist (Asylum and Refugee)

Job overview

The Health Inclusion Team 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 (e.g. 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 Adult Community Nurse Specialist to join the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Service to work with people seeking asylum living in Home Office Initial Accommodation Continency Hotels, across Lambeth and Southwark.   It is a nurse led service offering health assessments, responding to health immediate needs, linking into secondary care and promoting wellbeing through engagement.  We work with families and take a "think family" approach.  The clients have all experienced trauma; many have complex health and social care needs.   You must have an understanding of the client groups health needs and be confident in managing risk and safeguarding issues. You will be working alongside an experienced inclusion health team, including GPs, Health Navigators and nurse practitioners, using the principles of trauma informed care.

Closing date:  4th January 2026

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.

Main duties:

• Comprehensive health assessments
• Health screening (i.e. TB, blood borne virus screening, sexual health screening, baseline routine blood tests)
• Minor illness / injury management
• Chronic disease management
• Harm reduction work
• Promoting vaccination up take
• Case management of complex clients
• Referral to other services as appropriate
• Promotion of engagement with wellbeing activities
• Participation in audits

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will offer in-reach clinics independently and jointly.  All nurses will at times work across other RASS teams in other settings, including a hostel, day centres and the specialist GP service for destitute refugees with no recourse to public funds.

Please see the Job description for full details.