GP in Transgender Health

Job overview

Experienced General Practitioner with current GMC registration and Performer’s List required for the East of England Gender Service.

The role requires a GP with specialist skills to assess patients’ needs, analyse and formulate treatment plans within a multi-disciplinary framework.

The post holder works autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.

The East of England Service is located in Cambridge but is part of the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health Network.  The Network provides high quality assessment, referrals for treatments, case management and GP support.

Patients will receive a blended model of face to face and video consultation appointments with the clinics running 5 days a week, it is a busy working environment which requires high levels of confidentiality and person skills.

As one of the team you will undertake the provision and planning of assessment, care, and treatment for transgender patients, whilst having direct face to face and video work with patients and undertake independent prescribing.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

Main duties of the job

To provide a defined level of specialist assessment and access to interventions for transgender patients.

The post holder will be part of the transgender health team and act as a GP in Transgender Healthcare and work as part of the service to support patients in line with the NHS England national service specification.

The role requires the post holder to be a named professional for patients and undertake both assessment and follow-up responsibilities for an identified case load of transgender and non-binary patients and surgical recommendations.

The role involves the monitoring of gender affirming hormone treatment for trans, non-binary and gender diverse patients.

To demonstrate active clinical and managerial leadership skills within the team, to ensure that all team members receive appropriate clinical / practice supervision and that professional standards are maintained.

Through annual appraisal that mandatory training, practice education and development are actively identified for all staff, and feed into the Trust’s continuous professional development planning process.

Lead by example, motivating and empowering others and promoting positive attitudes, mutual understanding and collaboration between all services involved in the delivery of the service.

Completion of RCP Certificate in Clinical Practice for Adult Gender Identity Healthcare to achieve accreditation in transgender health care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To assess, design, implement safe, creative, and effective treatment plans in collaboration with the patients’ needs.

Manage a diverse caseload of patients ensuring a high standard of clinical care.

To work as a GP in Transgender Healthcare within this field

Work as a team member being flexible to the needs of the team.

To maintain accurate, timely and relevant clinical records both written and computerised. To maintain the safe custody of healthcare records

Proficiency in Systm1

Support the implementation of team objectives within the multi-disciplinary specialist team

To maintain GMC registration and adhere to the revalidation requirements.

Maintain adequate patient documentation to GMC requirements for all patients seen and advice given in any practice setting and contribute to clinical activity/data collection as required.

To provide appropriate and relevant support, where appropriate to peers and non-registered team members

Compliance with best practice directions and participation in quality initiatives

Build a close personal relationship with colleagues in transgender healthcare within and beyond  NCTH and East of England Gender service

Build a close professional relationships with local GP practices, ICB and LMC

Active participation in MDT settings, webinars, teaching, supervision Audits and Research

Protected time is allocated for CPD and PDP

It is expected that GP in Transgender Healthcare maintain working in primary care settings as a GP partner. Salaried GP or locum GP

The job description is not exhaustive. The tasks described are representative of the duties it is expected the post holder will undertake within the grade range of the post. Job content will be reviewed as necessary in consultation with the post holder, to reflect the changing nature of the post.