Lead Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

To provide specialist psychological assessments and intervention plans based on a comprehensive psychosocial assessment. To provide good quality assessments /formulations /diagnoses of gender incongruence. To formulate and implement plans for the treatment of gender dysphoria and provide regular professional oversight of this plan in conjunction with the MDT. To be responsible for the talking therapies service successful implementation of a range of psychosexual and psychological interventions to supplement gender care. 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, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To contribute to multi-disciplinary team meetings; to communicate and reflect using a psychologically based framework. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.