Lead Practitioner - Gender

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 3^rd party recruitment providers - North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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., 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. The role of the Gender Clinical Lead Nurse provides clinical leadership and management to the GIC nurses with interface other gender clinics. The lead nurse will focus on the development of the GIC nursing profession and support quality improvement. They will also be responsible for the nursing pathway development, working alongside the Clinical Director This will involve helping to develop and deliver the clinical strategy through co-production with service users, carers and staff. This role gives a fantastic opportunity to develop the nursing workforce within the service to enhance patient care and quality., The main duties of the lead practitioner will be to support the Clinical Director, Nursing directorate, Associate Director of Quality Improvement and Clinical Governance and Clinical Operations Director to deliver the ambitious quality improvement projects and the clinical strategy.

• The lead nurse will be employed as a practicing clinician.
• Undertake clinical risk assessments, harm reviews, and management plans that ensure the patient accesses the appropriate secondary care service for their needs where indicated.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient records in line with the Data Protection Act, relevant Trust Policies, and professional body recommendations.
• Participate in clinical audits.
• Lead and contribute to the evolving and transformative GIC clinical pathways this includes leading the delivery and governance of co-production of clinical pathways.
• Support the operations team in managing clinical financial and operational performance of nurses.
• Implementing clinical policies, both local and national, including the clinical strategy.
• Attend GIC Executive meeting, and Senior Leadership meetings as required.
• Support research projects, grow research capability and rapidly implement research findings.
• Manage relationships with partners, service users and carers.
• Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
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. 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.,
• In submitting an application form, you authorise the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post
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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.