Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services is seeking a compassionate clinical/counselling psychologist to join a dedicated team within a well-established Gender Identity Service. This role offers a unique opportunity to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary environment, providing essential psychological support to individuals experiencing gender dysphoria. The successful candidate will contribute to a supportive atmosphere that values professional development and inclusivity. With a focus on empathy and respect, this position invites you to be part of a transformative journey, making a meaningful impact on the lives of those in need. If you are passionate about mental health and eager to grow professionally, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

27 - 33 days annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

Remote working options

NHS Pension Scheme

Career development opportunities

Training and education support

Exclusive discounts and payment schemes

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology and HCPC registration required.
• Experience in psychological assessment and evidence-based interventions is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent assessment and psychological therapy for gender dysphoria.
• Supervise trainees and facilitate MDT formulation sessions.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Therapeutic interventions

Autonomous professional responsibility

Decision-making in treatment options

Education

Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

Job description

Are you looking for mental health jobs in Leeds, York or with one of our regional services operating across the country? We have a range of NHS Job opportunities, placements and specialities in our clinical, research, and professional support teams across Leeds and York.

At Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), we strive to provide high-quality mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. We can only achieve this by putting our staff and the people using our services at the centre of everything we do. This starts with the people we employ. We recruit based on values and qualifications (where required) and believe lived experience is an advantage. We look for potential, not perfection, and this means that together, we are as diverse as the communities we care for.

Simply put, we seek out people who care, act with integrity and have the right skills. We want to add to our incredible colleagues, students and volunteers who share these principles, with people like you, who find empathy comes easily and who treat everyone with respect without thinking. Search our latest jobs to start your journey with us.

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and compassionate clinical/counselling psychologist to join the MDT within a well-established Gender Identity Service. We are committed to robust professional leadership, equality, diversity and inclusion and supporting staff wellbeing and CPD. Our Psychological Professions Strategy outlines our vision.

The service provides a supportive environment and brings together a wide range of experience into a highly specialised MDT which aims to address the needs of patients presenting with difficulties arising from gender dysphoria/incongruence. The team includes consultant clinical psychologists, mental and physical health nurses, speech and language therapists, a consultant psychiatrist, senior psychiatrists, consultant endocrinologists, GPs, gender outreach workers, doctoral level trainee clinical/counselling psychologists and a prescribing pharmacist.

Main duties of the job

The candidate will be providing services to service users in Leeds GIS as a clinical/counselling psychologist. To fulfil this role within the Leeds GIS, there is a requirement from the psychologist to be able to provide independent assessment, formulation and psychological therapy for difficulties arising from gender dysphoria. The role offers the chance to utilise skills in terms of providing supervision to trainees, consultation and facilitating formulation sessions for the multi-disciplinary team (MDT). The successful candidate may be asked to contribute to projects that are in line with service development priorities.

Working for our organisation

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role will be fully supported by Clinical Psychology within the team. Experience of working with a gender diverse population is preferred, in particular those candidates with prior experience of working on placement within a gender identity service, those who have completed specific training in gender identity practice e.g. PGCert or PGDip in Gender Identity Healthcare Practice or those with lived experience. Applicants without gender-identity related experience will be considered and will then be trained with a view to becoming an established psychologist competent in carrying out assessment, formulation and therapeutic support.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent prior to 1996) and HCPC registration;

Skills

• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users while managing a high clinical caseload with an ability to be flexible and responsive in the face of competing clinical needs and risks.

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and delivery of evidence based psychological interventions across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, and inpatient settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies used to treat the population of service users specified in the job summary.

Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position based on a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application. Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible.