Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
About us
At Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust we provide a range of mental health, learning disability, substance misuse, primary care and other specialist services designed around the needs of people in our city.
We have a dedicated and skilful team of people caring in Sheffield, which you could become a part of.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do. These are: working together for our service users, respect and kindness, everyone counts, commitment to quality, improving lives.
Job overview
This post will be based at the Porterbrook Clinic on the site of the Michael Carlisle Centre in the Nether Edge. This is an exciting opportunity to work with adults with gender dysphoria providing gender affirming, trauma informed care. Experience of working with gender or sexual diversity and neurodiversity is essential.
The Sheffield Gender Identity Clinic, also known as the Porterbrook Clinic, is a service for adults who are experiencing gender dysphoria. Our clinic is one of 11 gender identity clinics providing healthcare for adults, commissioned by NHS England. We are a national service and as such, much of our work takes place online via Attend Anywhere NHS platform. Our team is made up of administration staff, medical and nursing staff, and a range of other healthcare professionals, such as psychologists and speech and communication therapists. People who attend our service may be seeking a range of treatment options. We provide support for social transitioning, and medical treatment to decrease gender identity distress. We are proud to provide specialist healthcare to transgender and non-binary people. We are passionate about providing culturally competent, developmentally appropriate and trans-affirmative professional care and management to the people that seek our services.
Main duties of the job
The role will include: providing psychological therapy to service users who have mental health issues impacted by their gender experience, providing extended assessments and psychological formulations and recommendations.
The role will also involve taking on some Lead Clinician responsibilities: providing diagnostic assessments of gender dysphoria and opinions about suitability and readiness for surgery. Appropriate training will be provided, especially for the Lead Clinician part of the role. The Clinical Psychologist will also play an integral part in our multi-disciplinary team meetings and offer supervision to other staff including an Assistant Psychologist and/or Trainee Clinical Psychologists on placement.
Working for our organisation
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.
What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.
It’s important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of
If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.
We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Assessment and therapy with people with gender issues
Lead Clinician responsibilities: providing diagnostic assessments of gender dysphoria and opinions about suitability and readiness for surgery.
Taking an active part in our multi-disciplinary team meetings.
Offering supervision to other staff including an Assistant Psychologist and/or Trainee Clinical Psychologists on placement.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific groups: people with neurodiversity and people with gender or sexuality concerns
- • Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of service users across care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- • Ability to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties relating to neurodiversity, complex trauma and gender issues
Other
Essential criteria
- • Ability to deal with exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances.
- • Willingness and ability to attend further training to become a Lead Clinician in a Gender Service.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ilona Singer
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2716671
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