Specialty Doctor in Medicine in Gender Identity (NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor) - Spec[...]

Specialty Doctor in Medicine in Gender Identity

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor

Main area Specialty Doctor Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 21 hours per week Job ref 260-TP-872

Site Gender Identity Clinic Town London, Salary £59,175 - £95,400 per annum (pro-rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 09/03/2025 23:59

It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health.

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

Job overview

The Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) is the largest and oldest gender clinic in the UK, dating back to 1966. We accept referrals from all over the UK for adults with issues related to gender. We accept referrals for patients who are aged 17 years and older onto our waiting list. Patients will not be offered an appointment before their 18th birthday.

We are a multi-disciplinary team, including psychologists, psychiatrists, endocrinologists, speech and language therapists, primary care physicians, and nurses. We work together to provide holistic gender care, focusing on the biological/medical, psychological and social aspects of gender.

The post holder will provide medical input to the Gender Identity Clinic, provide care for patients within the service, hold outpatient clinics and work collaboratively with other members of the multidisciplinary team. They will also be expected to offer advice to other healthcare professionals in primary and secondary care.

No specific specialty training is required to fulfil the clinical role. Individuals from a variety of medical, sexual health, primary care or psychiatric backgrounds may have knowledge and skills relevant to the role, such as medical assessment, hormonal management of endocrine disorders and menopause or experience in sexual and reproductive health and genitourinary medicine. Familiarity with psychological assessment and psychosexual assessment would also be of benefit.

Main duties of the job

1. Provide specialist medical assessment, diagnosis and formulation of patients with gender dysphoria.
2. Formulate, deliver and/or coordinate patient-centred management plans.
3. Work with the multidisciplinary team to provide safe, effective care to service users.
4. Advise on diagnosis and treatment both within the team and to external providers.
5. Coordinate and/or provide (or ensure referral to the appropriate service) up to date evidence-based interventions to service users.
6. Provide advice on hormone therapy for patients of the adult GIC and liaise with primary care to ensure its delivery and effective monitoring.
7. Complete administrative tasks necessary for the fulfilment of the clinical role.
8. Take part in service development of the endocrine service through audit and quality improvement programs.
9. Collaborate with GPs, hospital doctors and primary care physicians regarding the physical health care of patients.
10. Liaise with colleagues in other community and specialist teams.
11. Contribute to the on-going training and development programme within the team.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• EEA eligibility at time of application
• Post Graduate certification
• Higher Degree

Experience

• Have evidence that their present level of achievement and performance is commensurate with the totality of their period of training.
• Have sufficient experience working in medical specialties (not including foundation level experience) by the advertised post start date.
• Have experience of working in an NHS setting for a minimum of 24 months.
• Training completed in either core medical training, ACCS (acute medicine) or broad based training with the further year in CT2 core medical training, or have at least 24 months’ experience in medical specialties of which at least 12 months must include knowledge of the healthcare needs of gender nonconforming people. This can be either experience of working with gender nonconforming patients.
• Experience of working with gender nonconforming patients.
• Knowledge of the specific psychosocial and physical health issues of gender nonconforming people.

Knowledge

• Demonstrates understanding of research, including awareness of ethical issues.
• Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management, evidence based practice, patient safety and clinical quality improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrates knowledge of evidence informed practice.
• Demonstrates an understanding of clinical governance.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.

We communicate to all job applicants via the email address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure you check your email on regular basis and inform us if you would prefer an alternative option or any changes to your details after making your application.

PLEASE NOTE:
* The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.
* Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification on their application will be shortlisted for this job.
* Candidates suitable for shortlisting will be contacted within three weeks. If you have not heard from us within this time then you have not been successful on this occasion.
* Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

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.

Name Dr James Barrett Job title Clinical Director Email address JamesBarrett@tavi-port.nhs.uk Additional information

For an informal discussion please contact Dr James Barrett, Clinical Director JamesBarrett@tavi-port.nhs.uk