Senior Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Clinical Psychologist. This post will be based at the Porterbrook Clinic on the same site as the Michael Carlisle Centre in the Nether Edge area of Sheffield. This is an exciting opportunity to work with adults with gender dysphoria providing gender affirming, trauma informed care. Some experience of working with gender or sexual diversity and neurodiversity is essential. 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.

Main duties of the job

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.

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.

Although this post is a full-time 8A position, we would be happy to consider applications from people wanting to work part-time. We would also welcome applications from people currently finishing their Clinical Psychology Doctoral training who can demonstrate that they fulfil the person specification.