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Job summary

Main area
GP
Grade
Salaried GP
Contract
12 months (fixed term)
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
  • Home or remote working
2 sessions per week
Job ref
350-MED6908520
Employer
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Sahir House
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£73,113 - £110,330 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

Employer heading

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust logo

GP (CMAGIC Gender Identity Service)

Salaried GP

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a GP with a special interest in improving health care to those service users who identity as Trans or Non-Binary.

This post will involve working within an established team of medics, nurses and AHP's, providing assessment, diagnosis and interventions to service users. An effective MDT with support from Endocrinology and national Leads for Gender Healthcare assists with complex cases and decision making. This is coupled with training in this specialist area from the RCP.

The role is predominantly delivered digitally and as such, applicants who wish to work remotely will be considered.

Main duties of the job

The Cheshire and Merseyside Area Gender Identity Collaborative (CMAGIC), delivered by Mersey Care is an NHSE 2 year pilot and will provide comprehensive primary care based medical interventions for those who identify as Transgender, Non-Binary or Gender Incongruent. We are looking to appoint a GP or GP's providing 2 sessions per week, where the post-holder will provide clinical assessment, diagnosis and medical interventions, alongside referring or signposting to appropriate services and agencies, such as Endocrinology, SALT and Psychology etc.

Applicants must be fully registered with the GMC and on the GMC’s GP Register.  Applicants should have proven experience, or a specialist interest in working with people with gender dysphoria and a clinical background appropriate for the prescribing and monitoring of relevant medical interventions, such as hormone therapy.

For informal discussions regarding this post please contact Ryan Donaghy, Operational Lead, Mersey Care NHS Trust:

Email: [email protected] , Tel: 07760 998771

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people. 

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. 

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To provide high quality assessment of need and plan of interventions for people who identify as Trans, Non-Binary or Gender Variant.
  • To refer to appropriate associated services ie Psychology/Endocrinology, as necessary, in a timely manner.
  • Liaise with the service user’s registered general practitioner, as required, to support shared care during the patient journey.
  • To maintain appropriate standards of record keeping for each individual referred.
  • To suggest alternative sources of help and refer where appropriate.
  • To maintain professional updating through professional body and be subject to Trust’s annual appraisal policies.
  • To participate in peer supervision and training
  • Undertake to operate clinical services either remotely or in clinic as required by the service. Delivery of this during extended hours is desirable, but will remain a matter for negotiation between individual clinicians and the clinical director.
  • To support and be an active member of the wider collaborative network, supporting persons who identify themselves as Trans, Non-Binary or Gender Variant.

 

 

Person specification

Expert Practice

Essential criteria
  • Able to exercise a high degree of personal autonomy and critical judgement.
  • Promotes best practice/clinical effectiveness.
  • Vocational Training Certificate from JCPTGP.
  • Registered with General Medical Council.
  • MRCGP
  • Able to demonstrate experience working in GMS / PMS practices.
Desirable criteria
  • Awareness of issues of diversity and legal framework within which care is delivered in high security.
  • Has previous experience of service development/improvement.
  • Experiences as SHO in Psychiatry (or other relevant experience).

Leadership

Essential criteria
  • Influences, effects and implements change.
  • Facilitates clinical and professional development.
  • Focuses on quality and development of the service.
  • Understanding of multi-disciplinary working

Education & Development

Essential criteria
  • Can identify and respond to learning needs at individual and team level.
  • Able to contribute to the process of change and development.
  • Portfolio reflects a career long learning experience.
  • Has demonstrable links to under/post graduate training programmes.
Desirable criteria
  • Continuing interest in and experience of working with wholly excluded groups.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Employment Charter Status - Aspiring LevelVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardCTP The Ministry of Defence partnering with Right ManagementNavajo - Merseyside and CheshireDisability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStep into healthArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ryan Donaghy
Job title
Operational Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07760 998771
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