Clinical Lead-NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service (London)

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a compassionate Clinical Lead for their new Gender Service. This role involves providing clinical leadership, ensuring high-quality care for children and young people, and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in management and a passion for service improvement. Join a dynamic environment where your expertise will shape the future of gender services in the NHS. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a vital area of healthcare, working alongside dedicated professionals committed to delivering the best care possible.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering high quality care to children and young people.
• Significant senior management experience leading diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and support to staff.
• Ensure safe and effective service delivery to children and young people.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Project Management

Team Management

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Education

Degree in Nursing or AHP

Registration with professional body (e.g. NMC/HCPC)

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Recognised Management qualification

Post-graduate training in a recognised therapeutic specialty

Recognised qualification in Gender Identity

Job description

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Clinical Lead-NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service (London)

Band 8D

Main area: Gender Services
Grade: Band 8D
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 271-CYPGS-6967421
Site: Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH)
Town: London
Salary: £96,340 - £109,849 per annum inclusive
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/02/2025 23:59

Job overview

We are seeking a skilled and compassionate individual to join the new NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service (London) in the role of Clinical Lead.

Applicants should have experience of delivering high quality, evidence-based care to children and young people. The post holder will work closely with the Clinical Director and General Manager in ensuring that a safe and effective service to children and young people is always delivered, in line with national agreed standards ensuring effective and efficient use of resources.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership, supervision and support to staff and be a source of clinical expertise to the multi-disciplinary team and lead a number of exciting service development initiatives.

The service operates Monday-Friday. Full or part-time (minimum 30 hours per week) considered.

A new clinical pathway has been developed, based on the recommendations of The Cass Review Interim Report, the NHS England interim service specification, and the expertise of many clinicians from across the North-West, South-West and London regional centres.

The service will be delivered by a wide multi-disciplinary team including paediatricians, mental health practitioners, youth workers, nurses, speech and language therapists and occupational therapists. Who patients see will be dependent on the support and care they need.

Children and young people will receive an in-depth assessment of their needs, and a care plan will be developed with them and, if needed, those supporting them. Children and young people may be offered a range of care interventions such as therapy, family therapy, physical health support, or mental health support for any identified difficulties they may want help with. The team will also liaise with health professionals in local services nearer to the child or young person.

It is expected that the NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service will continue to change and evolve as more learning, research and evidence is developed in this area, and therefore we would encourage applications from individuals with a passion for service improvement, audit and research.

Working for our organisation

Following the recommendations of The Cass Review Interim Report, three new nationally networked services led by specialist children’s tertiary care providers have been established. Further regional centres will open soon. The London centre is delivered by a partnership of Evelina London Children’s Hospital (part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust), Great Ormond Street Hospital, and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

We are committed to promoting an environment that embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. We would like all our families and staff to feel valued and respected because we try to understand and provide for their individual needs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

• Degree in Nursing or AHP
• Registration with professional body (e.g. NMC/HCPC)
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent pre-1996)
• Recognised Management qualification
• Post-graduate training in a recognised therapeutic specialty
• Recognised qualification in Gender Identity

Experience/Knowledge

• Significant senior management experience leading a large and diverse team
• Proven and significant leadership experience at Clinical Lead level within services
• Proven senior level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
• Proven experience working at a senior level across multi agency partners
• Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies
• Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
• Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective
• Experience of teaching, training & clinical supervision of both trainee and qualified staff
• Extensive experience of offering consultation to children, young people and their families and to other staff groups and partner agencies
• Experience of demonstrable authoritative and democratic leadership style encompassing energy and involvement in planning and delivering change using a range of levers.
• Experience of leading and motivating teams to deliver to a high standard whilst under pressure, and when facing changing circumstances;
• Proven sophisticated relationship management skills to deliver internal and external stakeholder engagement at all levels, including managing relationships and encouraging collaborative working between cross-functional teams, and with third parties;
• Evidence of delivering on performance targets and service specifications to local and national KPIs
• Experience of providing line management to a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of the full range of professional management activities including defining appropriate establishments, grading and recruitment procedures, performance and appraisal.
• Previous experience of conducting clinical research
• Understanding of the application of psychological and other theories relating to a multi-cultural and socially diverse population
• Knowledge of service and professional leadership/ management requirements including common organisational arrangements, key responsibilities, professional governance requirements
• Knowledge and clear understanding of the background to, and aims of current healthcare policy in the NHS, with experience of interpreting and applying national guidance.
• Knowledge and expertise in current methods of practice in the area of gender dysphoria
• Previous experience of working within the field of Gender
• Understand health care commissioning and be able to demonstrate an understanding of the responsibilities within an ICB/ICS

Skills/Abilities

• Ability to work utilising a range of integrated therapeutic perspectives and modalities dependent on the needs of the client, and ability to develop and implement multi-professional / multi-agency risk management plans.
• Able to receive, process, summarise, interpret and effectively communicate highly complex, sensitive and contentious information in a highly emotive atmosphere where there are barriers to acceptance and resistance to change;
• Proven ability to deliver sustainable transformational change rather than just undertaking incremental change;
• Effective and adaptable influencing and negotiation skills with senior stakeholders on difficult, detailed, complex and controversial issues
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills, with ability to manage varying levels of understanding;
• Demonstrate effective analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options, coupled with the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands;
• Impartial approach to conflict resolution;
• Effective and adaptable interpersonal and motivational strategies; able to empathise and build rapport with front-line staff, managers and others, to influence, motivate and engage them to adopt new ways of working to improve services, including the ability to persuade others with personal conviction and facts.
• Ability to think and plan strategically at a clinical and service level, where interventions may impact on a range of services and individuals and require longer term objectives and planning.
• 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.
• Credibility with senior stakeholders within function, organisation and with third parties, with the ability to influence and build positive and productive relationships at all levels.
• Financial acumen including experience of effective budget management and control, coupled with a detailed understanding of cost improvement methodology
• Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media

Personal Attributes

• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
• Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
• Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
• Be proactive, forward thinking and with a can-do approach;
• Comfortable working on own initiative;
• Share creative and innovative ways of doing things with colleagues
• Exhibit the necessary level of drive, independence and objectivity required to perform the role effectively;
• Be open to constructive challenge and look for ways to continually improve own performance, and that of others;
• Flexible attitude and approach to work; willing, conscientious and adaptable;
• Competent IT skills and the ability to navigate around various systems and software packages
• Enthusiastic self-starter with a positive, committed and determined approach;
• Encourage trust through own actions

Culture and Values

• Knowledge and understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
• Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace.
• Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Please be advised that:

The recruitment process for all admin and clerical roles at Bands 2-4 will be a two stage recruitment process whereby shortlisted candidates will undertake an online literacy, numeracy, ICT and typing test. Only those candidates who pass the competency test will proceed to a formal interview.

The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification criteria for this post will be shortlisted. Please note that where high volumes of applicants have been received, additional criteria may on occasion be used to determine the final shortlist.

We are an accredited Living Wage Employer.

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.