Job summary
- Main area
- Gender Identity Service
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 260-TP-656
- Employer
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lief House, 3 Sumpter Close, Finchley Road, London,
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa inc. Inner London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Specialty Nurse Endocrinology
NHS AfC: Band 6
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.
Covid-19 Vaccination
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We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of 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
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.
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.
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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, and nurses. We work together to provide holistic gender care, focusing on the biological/medical, psychological and social aspects of gender.
No specific specialty training is required to fulfil the clinical role. Individuals from a variety of medical or psychiatric backgrounds may have knowledge and skills relevant to the role, such as psychiatric or psychosexual assessment, hormonal management of endocrine disorders and menopause or experience in sexual and reproductive health and genitourinary medicine.
There is recognition that a successful candidate may not have the full breadth of knowledge and expertise required to fulfil the clinical role initially, especially if they have not worked in a gender identity clinic in the past. If this was the case, a period of induction and additional support from colleagues would be available. On-going peer support is available from the consultants in the team.
Main duties of the job
This role is to ensure that physical health needs of patients on hormone treatment are taken into account. In partnership with other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), the role supports patients’ safe progression through the pathway, co-ordinating liaison with the patient, GPs, practice nurses and other healthcare professionals. This will involve facilitating and following up on appropriate and regular monitoring of hormone therapy with patients and GPs to coordinate the monitoring and management of hormone therapy, and running nurse-led clinics to review progress and health and wellbeing on hormone therapy whilst also providing a check-in service and additional point of contact with the GIC between core appointments.
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. With 500 staff across a number of sites, 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. For more information, please access the following link: https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for more details about the roles and requirements of the vacancy .
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registration as a Nurse with the NMC
- Degree level education or equivalent
- Evidence of post graduate education and/or training relevant to the role
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship Qualification (or equivalent qualification such as Practice Assessor trained)
- Post graduate qualification in Gender Healthcare
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of interpreting blood results
- Clinical documentation, record keeping and report writing skills, including word processing and database skills
- Excellent communication skills – verbal and written; including via telephone, email, letters, reports and in meetings and consultations.
- Able to demonstrate ability to work with other disciplines
- Good understanding of use of evidence to inform practice
- Ability to be self-directed and work semi-autonomously (with indirect supervision) and as part of a team
- Ability to recognise and work within scope of practice, ask for assistance and escalate matters appropriately
- Commitment to service development through audit and quality improvement programs
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with gender clients
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Robert Stocker-Rodrigues
- Job title
- Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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