About this role
Job summary
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the leading providers of services for the LGBTQI+ communities including our gender dysphoria clinic 'TransPlus' and trans sexual health service '56T'. Our Trans services are recognised for their inclusivity & diversity, and recently won a Nursing Times Award for 'Enhancing Patient Dignity'. Our ambition is to be the leading healthcare provider for Trans and non-binary service users in the UK, building on the specialist expertise and knowledge of our clinical teams.
This is a pivotal role with the post holder providing a specialist psychology service to clients with gender dysphoria at TransPlus, and to provide specialist psychological therapy to TransPlus project participants around any aspect of their mental or sexual health connected to their diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
The post holder will ensure the interests of the Trust are represented in a professional manner, and is a suitable ambassador at all times.
The successful candidate will be expected to work across all sites but will be primarily based within our 56 Dean Street sexual health service.
Main duties of the job
The role will be to provide a specialist psychology service to clients with gender dysphoria at TransPlus, a national gender identity clinic. This role will include providing psychological therapy to TransPlus patients, around any aspect of their mental or sexual health connected to their diagnosis of gender dysphoria. The post holder will offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers or external agencies, and will offer supervision to other qualified psychology staff members. Key to the role is to work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
About us
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We're one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff says they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'. We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
Job description Job responsibilities
Clinical
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems and psychological aspects of physical morbidity, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups; adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account queer and trans affirmative models and considering the impact of wider systems on that persons experience of gender dysphoria To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, and to support other members of the MDT in risk management. To contribute to multi-disciplinary team meetings; to communicate and reflect using a psychologically based framework. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. To act as a named designated professional for clients within the service.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of gender services within the trust, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. To supervise other professionals, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures. To provide dedicated support to the Gender Affirmation Surgery service to meet the psychological needs of service users, and to provide a psychological perspective to the GAS MDT.
Research and service evaluation
To initiate high quality research projects including carrying out literature searches, preparing scientific reviews of key areas, designing research studies, preparing and submitting grant applications to potential external funders, preparing, submitting and managing ethics committee submissions and preparing and submitting project registration documents. To present the results of research studies to appropriate audiences within the Trust and externally including national and international conferences and meetings as required by the lead nurse and clinical supervisor. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members. To provide research advice to other staff undertaking research. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service as necessary, to help develop service provision. To familiarise themselves with, and to comply with, the Trusts requirements on research governance.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications Essential
Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
Desirable
Further training and qualifications in a related area such as research methodology, supervision, working with trauma, or neurodivergence
Experience Essential
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. Experience of working in a sexual health psychology setting. Experience of working with gender diverse patients Experience of working with other health professionals in a medical context Experience of planning and implementing service development Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts Training in supervision
Desirable
Experience of providing sexual well-being interventions
Skills and Knowledge Essential
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology Knowledge of HIV and sexual health Knowledge of the issues affecting the gender diverse population High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. Knowledge of legislation and guidelines in relation to this client group and healthcare
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address 56 Dean Street
London
W1D 6AQ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)