Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
London, W1D 6AQView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£66,274 to £73,496
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
26 October 2026
7 days leftJob description
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the leading providers of services for the LGBTQI+ communities including our gender dys...
The role will be to provide a specialist psychology service to clients with gender dysphoria at TransPlus, a national gender identity clinic. This role will include providing psychological therapy to TransPlus patients, around any aspect of their mental or sexual health connected to their diagnosis of gender dysphoria. The post holder will offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers or external agencies, and will offer supervision to other qualified psychology staff members. Key to the role is to work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We're one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff says they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'. We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
Desirable: - Further training and qualifications in a related area such as research methodology, supervision, working with trauma, or neurodivergence
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of working in a sexual health psychology setting.
- Experience of working with gender diverse patients
- Experience of working with other health professionals in a medical context
- Experience of planning and implementing service development
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Training in supervision
Desirable: - Experience of providing sexual well-being interventions
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Knowledge of HIV and sexual health
- Knowledge of the issues affecting the gender diverse population
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of legislation and guidelines in relation to this client group and healthcare
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First seen
12 October 2026
Last checked
14 October 2026
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