Clinical/Counselling Psychologist – TransPlus

Job title:

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist – TransPlus

Company

NHS

Job description

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’, trans sexual health service ’56T’ and Chelsea Centre for Gender Surgery. 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.The role will be to provide a specialist psychology service to clients with gender dysphoria at TransPlus, our specialist gender identity clinic. To provide specialist psychological therapy to TransPlus service users 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. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.Main duties of the jobThe post holder will work with clients who may have had psychological needs identified as part of their assessment in the service. The post holder would be expected to provide short- to medium term evidence based psychological assessment and therapy to clients for a range of presenting difficulties including issues related to living with gender dysphoria, difficulties related to sex and sexual health, difficulties with transphobia or negotiating relationships with family or sexual partners, promoting sexual wellbeing, managing presentations of low mood/anxiety health anxiety or supporting clients who have experienced physical and sexual assault. We also anticipate that the post holder may contribute to the design and running of group psychoeducation interventions on mental wellbeing related to gender dysphoria under the supervision of the senior psychologist in the service.To provide supervision to trainee psychologists and non-psychologist staff within the team, as well as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to colleagues and to other, non-professional carers; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.The post holder will need to work autonomously within professional practice guidelines.About usWe 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 over 6,000 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 safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.In 2020 Trust was rated by the Care Quality Commission as Outstanding in the well-led and use of resources domains and Good in the safe, effective, caring, and responsive domains. The Trust as a whole was Good, but the Chelsea site was Outstanding.Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children’s unit at West Middlesex – in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.Date posted03 February 2025Pay schemeAgenda for changeBandBand 7Salary£54,320 to £60,981 a year per annum incl. HCASContractPermanentWorking patternFull-timeReference number289-TP-021Job locations56 Dean StreetLondonW1D 6AQJob descriptionJob responsibilitiesTo 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 dysphoriaTo 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. Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesTo 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 dysphoriaTo 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.Person SpecificationEssential and Desirable CriteriaEssential

• Doctoral level training in clinical/ counselling 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.
• 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.
• Experience of working in a sexual health psychology setting.
• Experience of working with gender diverse patients.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Knowledge of HIV and sexual health
• Knowledge of the issues affecting gender diverse populations
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour

Desirable

• Further training and qualifications in clinical supervision
• Experience of planning and implementing service development.
• Experience of providing sexual well-being interventions.

Person SpecificationEssential and Desirable CriteriaEssential

• Doctoral level training in clinical/ counselling 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.
• 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.
• Experience of working in a sexual health psychology setting.
• Experience of working with gender diverse patients.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Knowledge of HIV and sexual health
• Knowledge of the issues affecting gender diverse populations
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour

Desirable

• Further training and qualifications in clinical supervision
• Experience of planning and implementing service development.
• Experience of providing sexual well-being interventions.

Expected salary

£54320 – 60981 per year

Location

Soho, Central London

Job date

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:46:34 GMT

To help us track our recruitment effort, please indicate in your email/cover letter where (globalvacancies.org) you saw this job posting.