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Specialty Doctor in Endocrinology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 16 hours per week
Job ref
260-NLFT-0763
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust 260
Employer type
NHS
Site
Gender Identity Clinic
Town
London,
Salary
£61,542 - £99,216 Per annum including HCAS (pro-rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/04/2026 08:00

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Specialty Doctor in Endocrinology Medicine in Gender Identity

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we: 

  • Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
  • Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
  • Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
  • Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
  • Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
  • Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer.  We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is:  https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ 

As a values‑driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high‑quality care.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role.

We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit  https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

North London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to fair and transparent recruitment and requires applicants to provide accurate information, as misleading details may affect their application or employment and may be verified in line with the Fraud Act 2006. For further information please visit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

 

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

  • Provide specialist medical assessment, diagnosis and formulation of patients with gender dysphoria.

  • Formulate, deliver and/or coordinate patient-centred management plans.

  • Work with the multidisciplinary team to provide safe, effective care to service users.

  • Advise on diagnosis and treatment both within the team and to external providers.

  • Coordinate and/or provide (or ensure referral to the appropriate service) up to date evidence-based interventions to service users.

  • Provide advice on hormone therapy for patients of the adult GIC and liaise with primary care to ensure its delivery and effective monitoring.

  • Complete administrative tasks necessary for the fulfilment of the clinical role.

  • Take part in service development of the endocrine service through audit and quality improvement programs

  • Collaborate with GPs, hospital doctors and primary care physicians regarding the physical health care of patients.

  • Liaise with colleagues in other community and specialist teams.

  • 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.

Working for our organisation

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.

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information about Detailed Job description and main responsibilities please refer to the attached documents

Person specification

Qualifications

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

Experience

Essential criteria
  • 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 the Have Knowledge of the healthcare needs of gender nonconforming people. This can be either: experience of working with gender nonconforming patients
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working with gender nonconforming patients
  • Knowledge of the specific psychosocial and physical health issues of gender nonconforming people

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • 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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Prof Leighton Seal
Job title
Endocrinology Consultant
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

For an informal discussion please contact  Prof. Leighton Seal,

Consultant Professor of Diabetes & Endocrinology 

[email protected] 

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