# Spec HV - Lead for Asylum Seekers and Refugees > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for West London NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/spec-hv-lead-for-asylum-seekers-and-refugees/1c90fb76-4d07-404a-b8e9-2c4c1a305a76 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/spec-hv-lead-for-asylum-seekers-and-refugees/1c90fb76-4d07-404a-b8e9-2c4c1a305a76.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** West London NHS Trust - **Town:** Southall - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 per annum inclusive of HCAS (Outer) - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Business Development) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-20T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-07T15:21:21.409Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8138681 - **Employer website:** https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting opportunity to join our Health Visiting service as a Specialist Health Visitor for Asylum Seekers and Families in Temporary Accommodation, delivering the Healthy Child Programme to a defined caseload of families living in refuges, hotels, and hostels. The post sits within the wider 0–19 service in Hounslow, offering the opportunity to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Health Visitor who is passionate about improving outcomes for vulnerable families. The successful candidate will deliver evidence-based, culturally sensitive care, demonstrating advanced communication skills to address sensitive issues, provide counselling, and offer reassurance to families facing complex challenges. You will consistently demonstrate excellence in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN – Health Visiting) practice, acting as a role model and mentor to colleagues. The role requires the ability to manage complex situations, using critical thinking and professional judgement to assess needs, analyse risks, and determine the most appropriate course of action from a range of options on a daily basis. ### Main duties of the job - The post holder will deliver universal, targeted, and specialist health visiting services in line with the Healthy Child Programme to children and families within the refugee and asylum-seeking community as well as families living in refuges in Hounslow. Care will be delivered in partnership with the wider Hounslow 0–19 Service, including Health Visiting and School Nursing teams, ensuring a co-ordinated, multidisciplinary approach to meeting the needs of families. The Health Visiting service will be provided in accordance with national and local priorities, targets, and available resources, and will be underpinned by the core principles of health visiting practice, including early intervention, health promotion, safeguarding, and reducing health inequalities. The post holder will: - Maintain and continuously develop the skills, knowledge, and professional attitudes required to deliver a high-quality, responsive service that adapts to the evolving needs of the population - Deliver care that reflects the highest standards of practice, using evidence-based approaches to improve health and wellbeing outcomes - Exercise professional judgement in complex situations, ensuring safe, effective, and person-centred care - Contribute to service development and quality improvement within the specialist area For further details, please refer to the full Job Description ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to prioritise own work. - Computer literacy and familiarity with using clinical systems. - To be able to work with a culturally/racially diverse population and recognise issues of equal opportunity and access to services. - Ability to communicate sensitive and complex information to professionals of all levels and across organisations. - Ability to draw upon appropriate resources to be an advocate for children and support staff - Proactively interested in pu blic health, prevention and early intervention - Ability to audit, monitor and evaluate systems - Ability to prepare and produce concise and insightful communication, including presentations, for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders as required ### Qualifications **Essential** - First level Registered General Nurse or Midwife - BSC(Hons)Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) or equivalent level qualifications - Evidence of post registration education **Desirable** - Master’s Level Advanced Practice qualification or equivalent - ENB 997/Mentor Assessor/Practice Assessor ### Experience/ Knowledge **Essential** - 3 Years post SCPHN experience and delivering Healthy Child Programme. - Safeguarding children knowledge and experience - Knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding Procedures - Evidence of continual professional development - Experience of working with other agencies, especially social services and commitment to inter-agency working - Experience of working with children, adolescents and their families in a wide range of health settings - Awareness of High Impact Areas - Experience of planning and delivering training and health promotion. - Experience of child protection and special needs - Working knowledge of the public health agenda and influencing factors ## Documents - [job description (docx, 52.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10437032) - [oh requirements (pdf, 304.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3067) - [occupational health requirements (pdf, 376.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3003) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references.