Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 8C
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 180-E-GS12
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Westbrooke House, Newmarket & Cambridge University Hospitals
- Town
- Newmarket/Cambridge
- Salary
- £79,504 - £91,609 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical Psychologist – CYPGS Training Lead
Band 8C
Job overview
Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust (CUH) is seeking a highly skilled and compassionate individual to join the new NHS Children and Young People's Gender Service (East of England) in the role of Consultant Clinical Psychologist – Training Lead.
Based within the Paediatrics Department at CUH, we are looking for a senior psychological practitioner with substantial training delivery experience to help shape this new service.
The Cass Review into gender services for children and young people has recommended that staff should maintain a broad clinical perspective by working across related NHS services in order to embed the care of children and young people with gender-related distress within a broader child and adolescent health context. In order to facilitate this, we encourage part-time applications from staff already working in other NHS or related services.
We can also work with successful candidates applying for full-time roles to agree a job plan that includes a mix of gender service activity and activity in another clinical area.
Main duties of the job
To lead the co-design, development, implementation and maintenance of a proactive and responsive staff training programme for the NHS East Of England, Children and Young People’s Gender Service (CYPGS) and personally provide direct and indirect team development input to the CYPGS.
To consult to the Clinical Director, Clinical Lead and CYPGS, providing direct and delegated services to enable the CYPGS to be a well-trained team.
To report effectiveness data to the Clinical Director and Clinical Lead and present nationally and internationally on this area.
To provide leadership to joint working, consultation, training and service development activities, nationally in this area.
To lead, coordinate and supervise psychological research, service evaluation and audit activity both uni-professionally and in collaboration with other professional groups within the programme, to the extent covered by this post.
To provide clinical, leadership, management and professional services within the Service.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 12th July
Interviews are due to be held on 29th July
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- · Doctorate in clinical psychology/counselling psychology or equivalent
- · Current registration as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council
- · Training in appropriate theoretical models for use in the post
- · Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by relevant professional body.
- · Post qualification training and/or supervised practice in one or more specialised areas of clinical work.
- · Training in clinical supervision of psychological professionals, including trainees. Willingness to undertake further leadership development both formal and informal.
Desirable criteria
- • Management/leadership training
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Additional training in a specialised area of psychological practice relevant to working with complex CYP through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, or an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice–based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice, assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma.
- • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in an area of relevant clinical practice.
- • Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in an area of relevant clinical practice.
- • Substantial experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient/residential care settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- • Substantial experience of representing psychology within multi-disciplinary settings.
- • Extensive experience of working as a Clinical Psychologist providing NHS training services.
- • Experience of providing training in relation to CYP presenting with gender incongruence.
- • Extensive experience working within health care to provide large training events, public speaking and presenting data at professional meetings.
- • Extensive experience of formal teaching / presentation sessions to health and other professionals.
- • Experience of providing senior leadership and clinical services withing a specialist health setting.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects within own service area.
- • Record of publications in either peer reviewed, academic or professional journals/books, and conference presentations.
- • Experience of professional leadership and/or management of qualified and pre-qualified psychologists and psychological therapists and/or multi-professional management health / social care services.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Up to date knowledge of: o the psychological needs of people with gender incongruence and a range of co-presenting difficulties. o current best practice when working with this client group, wider clinical issues as evidenced by CPD log as recommended by the BPS.
- • Knowledge and skills in the assessment and treatment of neuro-developmental difficulties and the usual range of co-presenting problems.
- • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- • Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions.
- • Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- • Leadership and management skills.
- • Demonstrable knowledge of strategic principles relating to Equality Diversity and Inclusion
- • Knowledge and experience of use appropriate theoretical approaches to working with staff groups and patients and the evidence base for the relevant approaches
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Ability to generate and teach on systemic and individual psychological formulations and triage/deliver brief interventions based on applying psychological theories and models to the complex information generated by the patient and systems as appropriate.
- • Advanced communication skills with the ability to communicate and teach on highly complex and sensitive information regarding patients and their families in a developmentally and culturally appropriate manner in highly emotive situations. This will include the ability to provide complex psychological information to staff in an accessible manner.
- • Ability to access, record and manage information and data pertaining to the work undertaken in notes, data bases and electronic records as required.
- • Ability to prioritise and manage available time for clinical, managerial and professional activities effectively and safely.
- • Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.
- • Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
- • Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
- • Advanced communication skills. The ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information to and from staff and organisations in a culturally appropriate manner in highly emotive situations.
- • This will include the ability to provide complex psychological information to staff in an accessible manner.
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Ability to Travel.
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Gender Service Lead
- Job title
- Gender Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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