Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-E-253177
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge/Newmarket
- Salary
- £91,342 - £105,337 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead for Children and Young People Gender Service
Band 8d
Job overview
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust is seeking a highly skilled and compassionate individual to join the new NHS Children and Young People's Gender Service (East of England), as Clinical Lead.
Based within the Department of Paediatrics, the successful applicant will have extensive experience of delivering high quality, evidence-based care to children, young people and families.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership, supervision, and clinical expertise to the multi-disciplinary team.
The Cass Review into gender services for children and young people has recommended that staff should maintain a broad clinical perspective by working across related NHS services to embed the care of children and young people with gender-related distress within a broader child and adolescent health context. We therefore encourage part-time applications from staff already working in other services. We can also work with successful candidates to agree a job plan that includes a mix of gender service activity and activity in another clinical area.
The service operates Monday-Friday. Full or part-time (minimum 30 hours per week) considered.
This position will be based between Addenbrookes and the Gender Services builidng in Newmarket.
Main duties of the job
• To lead on the development, recruitment and onboarding of a multi professional clinical service to the NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service (East of England) and provide complex clinical input and leadership, both directly and indirectly.
• To contribute to the development of data and reporting, to evidence the quality and safety of the activity delivered by this service for NHS England, the National Provider Collaborative, The National MDT, the Clinical Director, Lead Clinicians, General Managers, Trust Executives and Commissioners, as required.
• To work collaboratively with the MTD Senior Leadership Team to ensure the set-up of a high quality, effective, and efficient service.
• To ensure recruitment to the necessary skill mix and professions and develop that service, in line with the research evidence and national guidance.
• To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychological service to all children and adolescents referred to the service.
• To plan and inform the Director of Operations on the execution and fiscal management of the overall psychological service budget and to have active involvement in its formulation, ensuring resources are deployed effectively and in-line with the NHSE Gender Service Contract.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 2nd December 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 15th December 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good honours degree in Psychology. Eligibility for Chartered Membership of BPS.
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Membership of HCPC. Eligibility for membership of Division of Clinical Psychology.
- Post-doctoral training and recorded CPD experience and /or further qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice/ specialised psychological therapy or advanced experience in health and mental health, related to children and young people. To include internal or external training courses or conferences e.g. specialist therapeutic approaches.
- Experience in neuropsychological testing, specific clinical populations, management, psychological treatment and interventions.
- Recognised expert status in specific area of psychological practice.
- Experience in management of a psychology service.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
- Experience of a paediatric psychology service
Desirable criteria
- Formal training in management of clinical professional services
- Qualification in Psychology Management or Leadership.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of six years, including at least 3 years post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings.
- The ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists and other psychological professionals.
- Experience of representing the profession in local policy fora.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in paediatric specialties.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- A high-level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Gender Services
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in delivering psychological services, including long term strategic planning within and outside of the organisation.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Able to communicate highly complex/sensitive information requiring empathy & reassurance where there may be barriers to understanding/hostility/antagonism or a highly emotive atmosphere.
- Ability to communicate highly complex condition related information to clients, relatives, other clinicians and to deal with hostility.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
- Strong and developed leadership and management skills.
- Highly developed skills of analysis & judgement – analysing and interpreting highly complex facts and comparing a range of options
- Highly developed skills for assessing patients, relatives and interpreting patient, family situations and appropriate formulations, where expert opinion may differ.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
- Good communicator
- Evidence of satisfactory and productive multi-disciplinary team working.
- Keyboard skills
- Skills in using test equipment.
- Formal restraint training.
- Organised and enthusiastic.
- Creative and innovative for the clinical service and psychology as a whole
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gender Service Lead
- Job title
- Gender Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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