General Practitioner in Refugee and Asylum Seeker Services
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it.Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’.Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS.We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a GP with a special interest in refugee and asylum seeker health, to work 20 hours per week in a specialist multi-disciplinary team working with asylum seekers and refugees across Lambeth and Southwark.
The Refugee and Asylum Seeker Service is part of the Health Inclusion Team, which comes under the Integrated Local Services Directorate of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. The Health Inclusion Team is an excellent award-winning team (two-time Winner of Lammy Award, Regional Winner of Health and Social Care Award for Improving Health and Reducing Inequalities, Inclusion Award Winner of Kolfoworla Abeni Pratt Fellowship, Community Nursing Winner of NHS Lambeth Community Health, Winner of BMJ Award, Winner of GSTT Care Award) that supports vulnerable people, including homeless people, refugees and asylum seekers, who have difficulty accessing health services.
Main duties of the job
You would be providing clinical support to our multi-disciplinary team, working across asylum seeker hotels in Lambeth and Southwark, to provide health screening and access to primary care services. The role involves liaising with local GP practices, public health teams and other stakeholders.The post holder would also attend weekly clinical meetings and monthly group clinical supervision.
The hotels service provides a specialist nurse led service 4 days a week. Services include physical and mental health screening, facilitating access to other services, providing mental health support and assistance with negotiating the asylum system.The service is delivered by a team of clinical nurse specialists, adult nurses, paediatric nurses, health navigators, GPs and assisted by administration staff.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You must be fully registered with the GMC, hold a License to Practice and be on the GP Specialist Register.
We are hoping to hold interviews on Wednesday 10th May 2023.
For further information or to arrange a telephone conversation about the post, please contact Dr Krishna Misra (GP/ Clinical Lead), by email: [email protected]/[email protected]
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria- Full UK GMC Registration and a Licence to Practise
- On the GMC GP Register
- On Medical National Performers List
- Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Public Health qualification or similar
- Mental health qualification
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria- CCT as a General Practitioner with post-qualification experience as a GP
- Experience of delivering primary care to socially excluded groups
- Up-to-date on relevant national guidelines.
- Experience of working with refugees, asylum seekers and homeless.
- Experience of working in a mental health setting during GP training or post-qualification as a GP.
- Experience of working with interpreters.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria- Commensurate with a GP with moderate degree of experience
- Able to work independently to manage the whole spectrum of needs of the client need or refer accordingly.
- Ability to collaborate and work with multidisciplinary teams to manage illness in the community setting.
- Experience or training in medico legal report writing
Clinical Governance, Management and IT
Essential criteria- Knowledge of and involvement in Clinical Governance issues including incident reporting
- Proficiency with relevant IT systems, good keyboard skills
Risk and Audit
Essential criteria- Understand principles of audit and Quality Improvement and evidence of contribution to effective quality improvement work
Research, teaching skills and experience
Essential criteria- Demonstrate an understanding of the application of evidence to practice in working with asylum seekers and refugees.
- Interest in refugee health and in the social, political and legal context of the work.
- Defined track record of research, publications/ understanding / knowledge of research ethics.
- Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria- Communication: ability to communicate clearly and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade / negotiate, and ability to defuse heated situations.
- Accountability: ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
- Interpersonal Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to see patients as people, empathy, understanding and listening skills.
- Resilience: Able to adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure.
- Management Understanding of their performance contribution to the success of the service
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.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service.We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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