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Job overview

This post will be based at the Porterbrook Clinic on the site of the Michael Carlisle Centre in the Nether Edge. This is an exciting opportunity to work with adults with gender dysphoria providing gender affirming, trauma informed care. Experience of working with gender or sexual diversity and neurodiversity is essential. 

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. 

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.

What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.

It’s important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of

If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.

We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.