Lead Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been commissioned to provide TransPlus at 56 Dean Street, the first integrated gender, HIV and sexual health service by NHS England.

The post holder will work with clients accessing the TransPlus service in gender healthcare in a Lead Clinician role. The post holder would be expected to provide gender incongruence assessments. The post holder will provide teaching, training, line management and supervision to other members of the service and appropriate stakeholders when needed.

Main duties of the job

To perform a lead clinician role in the assessment of gender incongruence and subsequent treatment planning and oversight as part of a multi-disciplinary service.

To provide specialist psychological assessment and recommendations for further intervention to the trans and gender diverse people accessing the service.

To co-design, supervise and lead on the provision of psychosexual and psychological interventions provided by other clinicians working with therapy models as part of a job share.

As well as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

To lead on the evaluation of interventions provided within the talking therapies service, with a focus on providing quality, timely healthcare.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide specialist psychological assessments and intervention plans based on a comprehensive psychosocial assessment.
• To provide good quality assessments /formulations /diagnoses of gender incongruence.
• To formulate and implement plans for the treatment of gender dysphoria and provide regular professional oversight of this plan in conjunction with the MDT.
• To be responsible for the talking therapies service successful implementation of a range of psychosexual and psychological interventions to supplement gender care.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• 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.
• 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.