Lead Travel Clinic Nurse
Role summary
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The role requires a registered nurse with current NMC registration, relevant travel-health experience, and sound knowledge of vaccination schedules, travel advice, malaria prevention, and immunisation safety. The successful candidate should be confident assessing patients, identifying health risks, administering vaccines, maintaining accurate clinical records, and responding appropriately to adverse reactions. Experience leading or supporting a travel clinic, educating patients, managing stock, and following infection-control and safeguarding procedures is expected. Strong communication, organisation, autonomy, and teamwork are essential. The candidate will be expected to deliver safe, evidence-based care, keep knowledge up to date, support colleagues, and provide a professional, reassuring service to patients preparing for international travel.
Can I work in the UK?
Never pay anyone for a visa or a job offer. A real employer pays the permit costs and never asks you for money.
How it works
How it works: NHS nurses, doctors and allied health get a Health and Care Worker visa (about 3 weeks, no health surcharge); care workers lost this route on 22 July 2025.
Before you apply: Nurses, doctors and most allied health staff must be registered or licensed locally before they start: expect checks on your degree and licence, often an English test, and often an exam or an assessment. Ask the employer who handles it and how long it takes. Most pharma and device office jobs do not need it.
Watch for: Pay follows the NHS pay bands and is usually at least GBP 25,000. Nurses and allied health also need UK professional registration; care workers cannot be sponsored from abroad.
Official source: GOV.UK: Health and Care Worker visa, your job. Checked November 2026.
What the job usually comes with in the UK
Usual for Healthcare jobs in the UK, varies by employer. Checked November 2026.
| Registration | Join the Nursing and Midwifery Council register: English language rules and a Test of Competence |
|---|---|
| Relocation | Visa fee GBP 324 (up to 3 years) or GBP 628 (longer); no health surcharge on this visa |
| Housing | Not usually provided; you rent privately |
| Flights | Not standard; varies by employer and seniority |
| Contract | Permanent is usual; sponsored work visas last up to 5 years at a time |
| Leave | At least 28 days for a 5-day week (by law); employers may count bank holidays in it |
| Income tax | 0% to GBP 12,570, 20% to GBP 50,270, then 40%; plus 8% National Insurance (Scotland differs) |
Senior staff often get more than line staff, for example a single room or a yearly home flight. Ask the employer what the job includes before you accept.
Guidance, not legal advice. Rules change; your employer confirms the details for your case.
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About St Peter’s Medical Centre
St Peter’s Medical Centre is a primary-care medical practice in the United Kingdom, providing general NHS services to its registered patient population. Its work typically includes GP consultations, nursing services, chronic-disease management, health checks, immunisations, family planning, preventative care, and travel-health advice. As a community-based practice, the centre depends on close collaboration between GPs, practice nurses, healthcare assistants, reception teams, and administrative staff. A travel clinic nurse would contribute specialist preventative care by assessing patients’ destinations and medical needs, recommending appropriate vaccinations and precautions, and helping travellers understand health risks abroad. The practice is expected to operate within NHS standards, professional NMC guidance, safeguarding requirements, infection-control procedures, and local clinical policies. Exact services, staffing arrangements, and employment terms may vary according to the individual centre and its partnership structure.