Sam is a Registered Nurse, and Practice Nurse Specialist Practitioner.
Having started her career in General Medicine and A&E, she has been working with people experiencing homelessness and other inclusion health groups since 2004. This included managing a nurse outreach team working in hostels and day centres in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, and setting up the Pathway inpatient services for homeless people in Guys & St Thomas’, King’s College and the South London and Maudsley hospitals.
Following this, Sam worked as Senior Nursing Fellow and Nursing Practice Lead for Pathway, supporting clinical practice and quality improvement in the Pathway Partnership Programme nationally.
She has recently left full-time employment with Pathway to become the Clinical Research Associate for a 3-year National Institute for Health and Care Research programme at UCL, focused on improving end-of-life care for people experiencing homelessness. She remains connected as a Pathway Fellow and has interests in safeguarding and mental capacity, intermediate and step-down care, inclusion health data and inclusion health education. She also recently completed a 15-month national project looking at improving care for people experiencing homelessness with diabetes.
Sam has had several journal articles published, sat on numerous homeless health related steering groups, and was previously seconded to the Department of Health. She is also an Ad Hoc Advisor to the Queen’s Nursing Institute Homeless Health Programme, and the Secretary of the London Network of Nurses and Midwives Homelessness Group.